TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran on Wednesday strongly condemned Israel’s aerial attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and the targeted killing of a top resistance commander, describing the assassination as “a clear example of state terrorism”. “Such acts are a clear example of state terrorism carried out by the Zionist regime [of Israel], which itself […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran on Wednesday strongly condemned Israel’s aerial attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip and the targeted killing of a top resistance commander, describing the assassination as “a clear example of state terrorism”.
“Such acts are a clear example of state terrorism carried out by the Zionist regime [of Israel], which itself is an illegitimate entity. These acts are condemned by freedom-seeking nations, and by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi told Press TV.
Mousavi criticized the international community’s passivity over Israel’s deadly strikes against the blockaded coastal region.
“We are shocked that the international community and regional countries, especially Arab and Muslim states, either keep silent or fail to take strong action in the face of such incidents,” he said.
The spokesman reiterated Iranian support for the Palestinian resistance against Israel and their “legitimate” right to respond to Israeli aggression.
“After decades of Israeli occupation, Palestinian factions and people are entitled to respond to the occupation, aggression, and assassination. And these days, they are rightfully responding to such acts in self-defense and Iran supports their response,” Mousavi said.
Exchanges of fire triggered by Israel’s targeted killing of senior Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata in Gaza raged for a second day Wednesday and showed little sign of easing, with 22 Palestinians killed.
Fresh rocket barrages were fired at Israel, which responded with strikes on what it said were Islamic Jihad sites and rocket-launching squads in the Gaza Strip.
Air raid sirens wailed and fireballs exploded as air defense missiles intercepted rockets, sending Israelis rushing to bomb shelters.
In Gaza, residents surveyed the damage and mourned the dead outside a mortuary and at funerals.
Islamic Jihad spokesman Musab al-Barayem said the group was not interested in mediation for now as it responded to the killing of one of its commanders.
- source : Iran Daily, Irannews
