2023-11-11 13:18:41
Iranian President Ebrahim Raïssi called on Muslim countries in Riyadh on Saturday to qualify the Israeli army as a “terrorist organization” because of its armed operation in the Gaza Strip.
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In his speech to Arab and Muslim leaders gathered in the Saudi capital, Raisi also asked Muslim countries to prepare to “arm the Palestinians” if Israel’s “war crimes” continued.
“The Israeli army must be recognized as a terrorist organization,” declared the Iranian president during the emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) devoted to the war between Israel and Hamas.
Hamas, supported by Iran which considers it “a liberation movement”, is classified as a terrorist organization in particular by the United States, Canada and the European Union.
“Now that international organizations have become useless, we must play a role,” added Mr. Raïssi, urging Muslim countries to “break all political and economic relations” with Israel, which Iran does not recognize.
He called for “a trade boycott once morest the Zionist regime, particularly in the area of energy.”
Ebrahim Raïssi once once more accused the United States of being “the main partner” of Israel “in these crimes”. “America actually entered the war directly by sending ships” to the Eastern Mediterranean, he said.
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Five weeks following the start of the war triggered by the bloody attack of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil, on October 7, around 1,200 people were killed on the Israeli side according to the authorities and more than 11,000 in Gaza according to the Ministry of Health of the Hamas government.
Ebrahim Raïssi’s trip to Riyadh is his first visit to Saudi Arabia since the surprise announcement in March of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two Middle East heavyweights, following seven years of rupture.
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