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President Pezeshkian urges Muslims to boycott Israel as he heads to Doha for Arab-Islamic summit

Monday, September 15


Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Muslim countries need to adopt a more united and coherent position in the face of Israel's acts of aggression and boycott the regime.

Pezeshkian made the comments on Monday before departing for Doha for an emergency meeting of Arab and Islamic states to discuss a formal response to Israel’s strikes against leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas in the Qatari capital last week.

“Muslim countries must unite with each other and take practical measures in the economic, cultural and social fields to boycott the Zionist regime,” he said.

With unity, the president added, Israel will not dare attack Muslim countries in violation of all international frameworks and regulations.

He said the Doha emergency summit will be held at the invitation of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss the recent Israeli regime’s blatant violation of all international regulations in launching an attack on Doha.

The Iranian president emphasized that the Tel Aviv regime knows no boundaries and has attacked several Muslim countries, including Qatar, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Yemen, in support of the United States and European states.

Pezeshkian said the US and its Western allies are legitimizing Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people by providing support and logistics to the apartheid Zionist regime.

On Tuesday, the Israeli regime launched the missiles at a residential area in Doha, targeting Hamas’s leaders, who were meeting to discuss a deal proposed by United States President Donald Trump to end Israel’s two-year genocidal war on Gaza.

Top Hamas leaders survived the attack; however, five members of the Gaza-based resistance group and a Qatari security officer were killed.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the Israeli regime’s attack.

Leaders from the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the 22-member Arab League will attend in the Doha summit.

The OIC foreign ministers on Sunday held a preparatory meeting of the Arab-Islamic summit. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attended the event.

Muslim countries must act decisively to counter Israel’s ‘madness’: Iran’s security chief

On Saturday, Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani issued a “warning to Muslim governments” and said they must “form a 'joint operations room’ against the madness” of Israel instead of resorting to mere statements.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei on Tuesday condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli strikes in Doha which he said were extremely dangerous, contrary to the UN Charter and infringed upon all established principles and norms of international law..

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