Kanaani: No change in Iran’s unwavering support for Palestine

Iran says it will make no changes in its foreign policy regarding its unwavering support for Palestine and confronting the Israeli entity.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani made the remarks at his weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday, as he once again expressed his condolences over the martyrdom of President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and six of their companions in a helicopter crash on May 19.

“Supporting Palestine and confronting the Zionist entity are among the main principles of Iran’s foreign policy, derived from the Constitution and the guidelines of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei],” he said, according to the Iranian news agency.

Despite the tragic incident of the death of President Raeisi and his entourage, Iran’s support for Palestine will not be stopped or disrupted, he added.

He emphasized that Iran will continue its legal, diplomatic and international support for Palestine as a moral responsibility.

Kan’ani renewed the international community’s “legal and moral” responsibility vis-à-vis the Israeli entity’s crimes in Gaza.

He said the Zionist entity is violating international conventions, and the International Court of Justice has ordered an immediate end to the entity’s military aggression on Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.

“There are all the necessary legal and international grounds to end the war, but it is obvious that what has happened [in Gaza] over the recent months was the outcome of the support of certain countries, especially the United States for the Zionist entity,” he added.

Edited by Hamda Mustafa