By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
    
The other day several hundred (perhaps over a thousand) Turkish citizens assembled in front of the Islamic Republic consulate in Istanbul to express their heartiest appreciation of the April 14 barrage of missiles launched at the illegal Zionist entity by Iran as vengeance for the terroristic air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus by Israel earlier this month, and also to thank Tehran for its unflinching Islamic solidarity with the persecuted Palestinian people who are currently exposed to US-supported genocide in Gaza.
The peaceful rally chanted “Death to Israel”, denounced the US for its blind support for the criminal Zionist entity, demanded liberation of Islam’s 3rd holiest site (the al-Aqsa Mosque), and hailed the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian people for mobilizing world Muslims for the campaign to free Palestine.
This appreciation of Iran’s role as the pivot of the Axis of Resistance is not confined to any single city or country. As a matter of fact, it is echoing all over the globe today, including in the pro-Zionist states of the West where people are boldly taking to the streets to denounce US complicity in Israel’s crimes against humanity.
Iran’s shattering of the so-called iron dome to a tattered tin-shed that was prevented from total collapse by the unwarranted targeting of Iranian decoy drones by the US, Britain, and France – often operating from the airspace of certain client states and occupied parts of independent countries such as Iraq and Syria – has been welcomed by masses throughout the neighbourhood and beyond.
For instance on Monday, when President Hojjat al-Islam Seyyed Ibrahim Raisi landed in Islamabad on his 3-day official visit, the Pakistani leadership while according him a red carpet welcome, took positive note of Iran’s practically firm measures to resolve the chronic issue of the Zionist usurpation of Palestine and strenuous efforts for ending the holocaust in Gaza, now in its 7th month. 
People on the streets of the Pakistani capital waving the Iranian flag along with the flag of their country, enthusiastically spoke of the Islamic Republic’s Operation True Promise, while leaders of various political parties as well as scholars of the different schools of Islamic jurisprudence, especially Sunni and Shi’a Muslims, talked of Islamic solidarity for the cherished goal of liberation of Palestine.
Even in countries whose regimes treacherously side with Usurper Israel, such as Jordan, the tens of thousands of people demonstrating almost every night on the streets for closure of the Israeli embassy and severance of all kinds of relations with the Zionist enemy, hailed Iran’s historical attack on Occupied Palestine.
This is all indicative of the positive measures of Iran, whose citizens are now being praised for their revolutionary role in defence of Islam’s former qibla.
Without an iota of doubt, the first batch of Iranian Umrah pilgrims that left for the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina on Monday, are being enthusiastically viewed by the people of the various regions that make up Saudi Arabia, as trend-setters of Islamic unity and the engine that directs the Axis of Resistance.