Iran’s foreign minister has rejected claims that countries other than Palestine are behind the “courageous” operation against Israel, saying the Palestinian resistance itself made the decision to launch it.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Tuesday, days after the Gaza-based resistance groups successfully conducted Operation Al-Aqsa Storm in the occupied territories.
“What happened is 100-percent a resistance decision [despite] claims that other countries are behind [it],” Amir-Abdollahian said at a meeting with senior managers at the Islamic Culture and Communication Organization and Iranian cultural counselors in neighboring countries.
They have become self-sufficient in producing missiles, rockets and drones, the top diplomat said.
He further said Iran will continue to support the Palestinian resistance spiritually, politically and media-wise.
“Four decades of fight by the resistance fighters has taught them how to provide the items needed to defend Gaza and Lebanon. We as Iran will definitely continue our political, media, international and spiritual support for the resistance of Palestine, Lebanon and the region, and consider it a legitimate measure against the phenomenon of occupation,” he added.
Amir-Abdollahian also noted that Palestinian leaders want to open a new page in the path of resistance by taking “preemptive actions” rather than responding to the Zionists’ systematic aggressions.
Resistance leaders, he emphasized, want to take back the lands and settlements occupied by the Zionists and defend the Palestinians’ rights in those areas instead of watching the destruction of Palestinian homes and the erection of settler units.
This courageous operation was carried out in response to the aggressions, occupations, the killing of women and children, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s unbalanced and criminal extremism, he said.
The Palestinian Hamas resistance group waged Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against Israel on Saturday in response to the regime’s violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East al-Quds and growing settler violence.
The surprise raid shook the usurping entity’s security establishment, leaving 1,200 Israelis dead.
In response, Israel launched deadly strikes on Gaza Strip, killing 922 Palestinians and wounding 5,000 others.
