TEHRAN -- President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday all countries should end commercial and political cooperation with the occupying regime of Israel in an attempt to compel the regime to end its atrocities in the Gaza Strip.
The president made the plea in a letter to the heads of 50 countries, including Russia, China, Turkey, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Kenya and Jordan.
He called on all free and independent countries to use available means, including cutting off trade and political cooperation and communications with Israel, to exert pressure on the regime and play a more prominent role in ending the regime’s crimes against Palestinians.
Raisi lashed out at the Zionist regime’s brutal acts in massacring thousands of people in Gaza and destroying the Strip’s infrastructure over the past 40 days. He also censured as some Western governments’ double standard policies and their deliberate violation of the principles of morality and human rights.
“It is expected that freedom-seeking and independent countries, especially Muslim states adopt a coherent and unified approach in the diplomatic and economic fields to put pressure on this occupying regime,” he said.
Such an approach would lay the groundwork for ending the Tel Aviv regime’s crimes in killing civilians and removing the siege of Gaza, the president said.
The foreign ministers of Iran and Qatar also said the international community needs to take immediate action to force the Zionist regime to stop its brutal acts in the Gaza Strip that are in blatant violation of international law.
In a phone conversation on Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian and his Qatari counterpart Muhammad bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, discussed the latest developments in Palestine and Israel’s atrocities assault on Gaza.
They emphasized that the Tel Aviv regime is responsible for the ongoing catastrophic situation in the besieged Strip.
The top Iranian and Qatari diplomats also called on Muslim and Arab countries to urgently deliver humanitarian assistance to the oppressed Palestinian people.
Amir-Abdollahian and Al Thani exchanged views about the latest innovative approaches to stop Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.