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Iran calls for strong international response to Israel’s ‘crimes against humanity and war crimes’ against Palestinians.
Tehran, Iran – Iranian officials have called on the United Nations and
fellow Muslim nations to step in to stop “apartheid” Israel from attacking Palestine while a top military commander has pledged Iran will stand by Palestinians.
The High Council of Human Rights of Iran – an entity under the Supreme National Security Council currently headed by judiciary chief Ebrahim
Raisi and comprised of several ministers – has written a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to take action on “genocidal acts” and “racial cleansing” being committed by Israel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/16/iran-calls-for-international-action-on-apartheid-israel
The letter on Sunday, seen by Al Jazeera, says silence, ambiguous
statements, and those issued in support of Israel’s “right to defend itself” – as the United States has issued – on the situation unfolding in Gaza have perpetuated the decades-long conflict.
The council has called on the UN to recognise that Israel is committing “crimes against humanity and war crimes”, form a fact-finding commission, attract the attention of all its member states, and use its human rights mechanisms.
It said “the protection of the right of return of all displaced
Palestinians around the world and then the protection of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people through a referendum” would
be the best solution.
Israel’s latest bombardment of the Gaza Strip is now in its seventh consecutive day and has killed at least 192 people, including 58 children.
Israel has maintained it is defending itself against rockets fired by
Hamas fighters – which Hamas has said were launched in response to an
Israeli crackdown on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem and the
storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
‘Institutionalised campaign’
In remarks at an emergency virtual meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called
for action from the 57-member entity.
He said member states should devise an “institutionalised” legal and political campaign against the “apartheid Zionist regime” at regional and international levels.
He also called for a push to make the UN urgently convene an emergency
session of the General Assembly to address the issue.
The UN Security Council is convening on Sunday. Washington had previously blocked a scheduled meeting on Friday.
“We are facing blatant and systemic violations of human rights,
humanitarian law and international law,” Zarif told his peers at the
virtual meeting, while also calling for a referendum that would be
inclusive of all Palestinians, including those displaced and living as refugees.
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan al Saud also condemned “flagrant violations” of Palestinian rights in the meeting, and called on the international community to act urgently.
‘Chain defeats’
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani raised the issue with his Turkish
counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call on Sunday, telling him
Iran and Turkey must band together as two major players in the region to
urge the UN and the OIC to fight the “crimes of the Zionist regime”.
Erdogan reportedly told him the international community must offer a
“strong and deterring response” and the Muslim world must act as one on
the Palestinian issue.
Rouhani had made a similar point during a phone call earlier this week
with Qatar Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, also welcoming Qatar’s efforts
to stop the bloodshed.
Iran’s security chief Ali Shamkhani tweeted on Sunday that the “chain defeats” of the US in Afghanistan, and of Israel against the “resistance axis” are indicative of the failure of their policies.
“We’re ready to participate with the countries of the region in a
mechanism to create collective security as an infrastructure for
development and welfare of their nations,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force on Saturday held separate phone calls with Ismail Haniya, the head of Hamas’s political bureau, and Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the secretary-general of the
Islamic Jihad armed group.
General Ismail Qaani stressed Tehran’s support for Palestinians facing Israeli “crimes” and admired the “successful response of resistance forces
against the violations of the Zionist enemy”.
### - was only a matter of time before iran started making noises,
especially where israel is concerned hah!
didn't realise, however, that biden had put the block on an earlier friday meeting of the UN??
i.e., there may now indeed be a democrat in the white house, but
apparently it's just business as usual in terms of america's on-going
foreign policy... same as it ever was! it's just 5% better than having
that nutjob trump in office is all...
the UN wont do anything anyway, they never do? a basically useless +
totally impotent organisation (no dick) that represents the world in name
only for all the good they can actually ever do beyond some kinda
self-serving lip-service to themselves and the powers that be duh...
for the UN to more 'genuinely' represent the nations of the world and to 'actually' have some real world-saving power, they should thus be removed
from american soil and placed somewhere completely independently of anyone
& everyone else, each nation then having only one single vote and with no
power of veto, and then LET majority rule! the UN would then be the
policemen of the world!
this will never happen of course while gangsters are still running the
planet and using the UN as a front for their rackets...
meanwhile, ww3 again looms larger than life on the world stage as we're
again all brought to the very brink of it...
geez wherever ya look this world really sucks!
now let's all sing mr blue sky shall we?
riiiiiiiight..... :)))
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