Iran calls for international action to end attacks on Gaza

 

Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (file photo)

Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/11/16/272684/iran-urges-immediate-end-to-gaza-raids/

Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called for immediate action by international organizations to end the Israeli regime’s savage assault on Gaza.

Salehi made the remarks during a speech at the 39th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers in the Republic of Djibouti.

The Iranian Foreign Minister called on the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi, current President of the Security Council Hardeep Singh Puri, and the European Union to act immediately to defend Palestine and Gaza against the damaging effects of the Israeli regime’s attacks on the peace and security of Palestinians.

He also urged the international organizations to provide all-out political and humanitarian support in order to alleviate the miseries of the Palestinians.

Salehi further called on the foreign ministers of OIC member states to issue a statement and condemn the atrocious acts committed by the Zionist regime and support the oppressed people of Palestine.

At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in the new wave of Israeli attacks on the blockaded Gaza Strip since November 14, and 250 people have been injured.

Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the military was preparing for a “significant widening” of its attacks against the blockaded coastal strip, the Tel Aviv regime has called up 30,000 army reservists, preparing 16,000 for a possible ground invasion of Gaza.

The Israeli regime conducts airstrikes and ground attacks against the besieged Palestinian territory on an almost regular basis.

Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the living standards, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.

The apartheid regime of Israel denies about 1.7 million people in Gaza their basic rights, such as freedom of movement, jobs that pay proper wages, and adequate healthcare and education.

 

Iran urges UN action on Asgari case

Iran's Foreign Ministry Caretaker Ali Akbar Salehi

Source: Press TV
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157935.html


Iran's caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has urged the United Nations to help determine the fate of an Iranian national who reportedly died in an Israeli prison.

Ali-Reza Asgari, a former deputy defense minister, mysteriously disappeared in Turkey in 2007. He was believed to have been abducted and transferred to Israel.

A Ynet report on Tuesday stated that a prisoner had committed suicide in solitary confinement in Israel's Ayalon prison.

The Eurasia Review website claimed that a source within the “inner circle” of the Israeli Defense Ministry had identified the prisoner as Asgari and that his death could have been murder and not suicide.

“Publication of such reports strengthens suspicions over the abduction of aforementioned individual [Asgari] by the Zionist regime [of Israel],” Salehi said in a message to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday.

Salehi said Israel must therefore be held accountable for the health and safety of the former Iranian deputy defense minister, a Foreign Ministry statement added.

Asgari's abduction has taken place “against all recognized principles of international law and is an explicit example of the Zionist regime's state terrorism,” the Iranian official said.

The matter calls for proper reaction from the international community especially from institutions responsible for maintaining international peace and security, Salehi added