Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said that the bombing of the Gaza hospital on Oct. 17, marks the beginning of the end of the “Zionist regime.” According to Tasnim news agency, he told a rally in Tehran yesterday: “Today is a day of public mourning for the great nation of Iran, the Islamic Ummah and humanity, that some anthropomorphic people, who, according to Imam Ali (pbuh), have the shape of a human but their heart is the heart of an animal, but even lower than that, have committed this horrible crime and shed the blood of the oppressed women and children.”
Raisi went on to characterize the Israeli attack on the Gaza City hospital as marking the beginning of the end of the Zionist regime: “Every drop of blood of every Palestinian that is spilled on the ground brings the Zionist regime one step closer to its fall,” his Presidential website reported.
Iranian Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, in separate telephone conversations with the Defense Ministers in Russia and Qatar, argued for immediate action by the international community to stop the Israeli massacre of people in Gaza and to send humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave. “The continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes (in Gaza) and the direct support and backing from certain countries would further complicate the situation and could make other actors intervene in this arena,” the top commander told Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, reported Tasnim. “We are extremely concerned about continued large-scale, deadly attacks on civilians in Gaza. Such barbaric action is inadmissible and other governments should react to it in an appropriate manner,” Baqeri said, reported TASS.
In talks with the Qatari Defense Minister, Baqeri reportedly emphasized that Muslim silence about Israeli acts of aggression against Palestinians is unjustifiable. If the Zionist regime’s brutal attacks go on, any reaction from the resistance groups will be possible, the Iranian general warned.
Baqeri also insisted on a ban of the deployment of arms and equipment from the U.S. regional bases to the occupied Palestinian territories. Notably, Qatar hosts the largest U.S. air base in the region.
