Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Israeli regime, heavily backed by the United States and certain European countries, is committing heinous crimes against humanity and genocide in Palestine, particularly against children.
Raeisi made the remarks at a joint press conference with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Tehran on Monday.
“We believe that the [Israeli] bombardments [against Gaza] must be stopped as soon as possible and a ceasefire must be established,” he said.
He emphasized the need to send aid to the “oppressed” yet “powerful” people of Gaza as soon as possible.
Israel waged a deadly war on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity. The regime’s relentless bombardment of Gaza has killed at least 9,922 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Israel has also cut off fuel, electricity, food and water to more than two million Palestinians living in Gaza.
The president further said Iran cooperates with and supports any measure by the Muslim, regional and international countries aimed at deterring the Israeli regime and the US from massacring the innocent people of Gaza.
Raeisi noted that Tehran and Baghdad have a common stance on the Palestinian issue.
The Iranian president rejected as “sheer lie” the US claims about sending aid to Gaza and announcing a ceasefire in the war-stricken strip, saying such claims do not match the Americans’ actions.
“Unfortunately, the US provides arms, intelligence and financial aid to the Zionist regime to brutally kill the Palestinian people and it actually encourages the [Israeli] regime,” he said.
The Iranian president noted that the US vetoed a draft resolution presented by Brazil to the United Nations Security Council on the establishment of humanitarian pauses in the war on the blockaded Palestinian territory.
This would in fact pave the way for the Israeli regime to carry out more acts of murder, he added.
The Iranian president emphasized that the US and other countries that support Israel are complicit in all the regime’s crimes.
Raeisi said the battle of the resistance front against Israel and the defeat it has inflicted on the regime have crumbled the Israeli regime.
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