ABBAS ARACHCHI, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, denounced a decision that demonstrates ‘the complicity of the United States in the crimes of the Zionist regime of Israel’
O condemned, this Thursday (5), the veto of to a resolution of the who asked for an immediate ceasefire and the access of humanitarian aid to Gaza, where Israel is at war with the Palestinian terrorist Islamist movement Hamas. This veto demonstrates “the complicity of the United States in the crimes of the Zionist regime (Israel),” said the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghi, which “condemned” this decision “” condemned.
The project had 14 votes in favor and only one contrary, the United States, one of the five permanent members entitled to veto, the first of Donald Trump’s government. The project of resolution “required an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” and the unconditional liberation of hosts in the possession of Hamas, captured in the attack of 7 October 2023 in Israel, which was the trigger for the war in Gaza.
He also asked for “the immediate and unconditional suspension of all restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza and its safe and without large scale shapes” by the UN. Iran does not recognize Israel, called by its leaders as a “Zionist regime”, and has made support for the Palestinian cause one of the pillars of its foreign policy since the emergence of the Islamic Republic in 1979. Tehran and Washington have not had diplomatic relations for four decades.
*With information from AFP
