TEHRAN (Iran News) In a statement released on Sunday, Esmaeil Baqaei abhorred the Zionist regime’s anti-human crimes and massacre of people in Palestine and Lebanon, including the latest fatal strikes on a mosque in Deir el-Balah and on residential buildings in Beirut’s Dahiyeh.

He said the Israeli regime’s recent attacks, carried out with the weapons supplied by the US, against the holy sites, schools, mosques and medical centers of Palestine and Lebanon are reminiscent of the crimes committed by the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group.

“The killing of civilians and destruction of civil sites and infrastructures are an indispensable part of ideologies of Zionism and Takfirism,” the spokesman said.

The relentless massacre of displaced Palestinians who have taken shelter in sanctuaries or cultural and medical centers amounts to blatant war crimes and crimes against humanity, Baqaei stated, urging the international community to act seriously and effectively against the “Hitler of new age, namely Netanyahu and the criminal heads of the Zionist regime.”

The Iranian spokesman also cautioned that the Israeli regime’s policy of fomenting insecurity in the region poses a serious threat to international peace and stability, saying inaction in the face of such Israeli crimes will have irreparable consequences for the whole regional countries and beyond.

He finally called on all countries, particularly the Muslim nations, to employ their great potential to deliver immediate humanitarian aid to Gaza and Lebanon and counter the Zionist regime’s policy of terror and regional insecurity.

Israeli strikes on Ibn Rushd school and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Mosque in central Gaza have killed at least 26 Palestinians, as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut in its widening war across the region.

The strike hit the mosque and school where displaced people were sheltering near the main hospital in the central town of Deir el-Balah.

The Israeli regime, meanwhile, announced a new air and ground offensive in Jabalia in northern Gaza, home to a densely-populated refugee camp dating back to the 1948 war.

The Islamic Women’s Council of New Zealand said it warned police and security services repeatedly about threats from white supremacists, including when they received a Facebook message threatening to burn the Quran outside a mosque in Hamilton on March 15, 2019, the same day as the Christchurch attack.

Although the threat was not directly connected to the mass shooting, extra security measures could have been taken at all mosques, said the submission to the closed-door inquiry which was made public on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

“The police had enough intelligence to warrant a coordinated national strategy,” the group said in the 130-page submission.

“If there had been such a strategy, then the message would have alerted every mosque in the country to a threat to one mosque on Friday 15 March 2019 and for all mosques to take extra security measures. Whether or not the threat was connected to the Christchurch killer is irrelevant.”

Armed with semi-automatic weapons, Australian Brenton Tarrant, a suspected white supremacist, attacked two mosques in Christchurch on March 15, 2019, broadcasting New Zealand’s worst mass shooting live on Facebook.

Tarrant has pleaded guilty and a court will begin his sentencing on Aug 24.

The Islamic Women’s Council submission said police, security services and government representatives were focused only on combating terrorism by extremists, leaving the community vulnerable to the rising alt-right movement.

“Evidence indicates that public sector employees were, at best, asleep on the job and, at worst, intentionally

Ignoring our pleas and actively undermining our work,” Aliya Danzeisen, who leads the group’s government engagement, said in a statement.

Police said no comment would be made until the Royal Commission had concluded. However, on the specific threat in the report it said the person was identified and formally warned.

A government spokesman said the government will wait for the Commission’s report before making any comment.

The Royal Commission inquiry into the shooting massacre is due report its finding by end of July.

Threats to the Muslim community have continued since the attack, with a threatening social media post appearing earlier this year.

New Zealand, unlike the United States or Britain, has never recorded specific hate crime offenses, raising questions about what signs security agencies may have missed.

Islamic Women’s Council estimates there would not be a Muslim woman in New Zealand who wears the headscarf who has not been abused in public at some time.

“We strongly condemn the criminal action in which a mosque in north Sinai was targeted,” the Yemeni official said, Beirut based al-Manar TV network reported.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi announced a three-day nationwide mourning following the deaths of people at Al-Rawda mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai.

At least 300 people were reportedly killed and 128 injured when terrorists attacked the mosque in El-Arish’s western province. Reports indicate the terrorists used explosives and heavy weaponry in their attack on the mosque.

It is located in Shiraz, in Iran’s southern province of Fars.

In fact, it is the largest mosque, which has been built in Iran, for its compound alone measures 148.50 meters by 47.90 meters, so has an area of 11,122.65 square meters.

If the area covered by the buildings which form the domes, pillared halls and colonnades of the mosque be included with the compound, the total area will be 19,599.78 square meters.

According to irangazette.com, the first building was established by Atabak Sa’d bin Zangi, ruler of Fars, in 1201 CE and was completed in 1218 CE.

Lofty porches (iwan) have been built on all four sides of the mosque. Those on the north and south are flanked by a colonnade of 12 arches of smaller proportions, but the eastern and western porches are flanked by six arches on either side. There is a great and wide pillared hall behind the southern porch ― used for prayer and preaching in the summer.

The present mosque is devoid of all decoration and faience that is worth noticing, but from the point of architecture the barreled roofs, and especially the porches with their great height attract attention and are impressive. It may be supposed that the original building was decorated with colored tiles, which were destroyed by the several earthquakes, and that subsequent builders did not concern themselves with replacing the faience.

Nou Mosque attracts the Sun in the winter, and has shade and pleasant air in the summer. The old plane trees in the middle of the mosque add to the cool and fresh atmosphere.

As the author of the Farsnameh-ye Naseri writes, this mosque has been repaired and restored several times. It was repaired upon the order of Shah Navaz Khan, chief minister of the Deccan in India, in 1586 CE. About 180 years later, Sadeq Khan ―the brother of Zand King Karim Khan ―renovated the mosque. Afterwards, the mosque was destroyed by severe earthquake.   Ali Akbar Qavam-ol-Molk Shirazi undertook the restoration in 1854 CE.

Atabak Sa’d bin Zangi, the builder of the Nou Mosque is the same ruler who built a mosque around the tomb of Cyrus in Pasargad, where the lintel stone over the main entrance still bears the date and name of the builder, but the other parts have been demolished.

Great poet Sa’di lived during the rule of Atabak Sa’d bin Zangi.