Iran urges all Muslim countries to cut all economic ties with Israel

September 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on all Muslim countries to cut all economic ties with Israel as “the least” they can do in response to Israeli attacks in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

“When the Zionist regime failed to strike fighters in Palestine, it unleashed its blind and malignant fury on children and hospital patients,” he said, before proposing an economic boycott of Israel. “It must be done,” he said, according to official Iranian media.

For Khamenei, “if the Islamic community uses its inner strength, the Zionist regime will be uprooted from the heart of the Islamic community,” he said, while recalling one of the main lessons taught by the Prophet Muhammad to Muslims, which is the formation of the Islamic community.

“The Islamic world needs this lesson today” to confront the “barbaric crimes” of Israel in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Lebanon and “eliminate the Zionist regime” and the “influence and interference of the United States” in the region, he argued.

Khamenei made the remarks at an event held on the occasion of the 38th Islamic Unity Conference at the Imam Hoomini Mosque in Tehran, which was attended by ambassadors of Muslim countries represented in Tehran.

He recalled that there are about 2 billion Muslims in the world, but warned that it would be wrong to call them an ‘ummah’ or “community”, because “a community is a group that moves in harmony and with motives towards a common goal, while Muslims today do not do so.”

This division among Muslims “only serves to empower the enemies of Islam and foster the dependence of some Muslim countries on the United States.” In response, he has argued that Muslims should form a “unified entity” that would have more power than all the world powers.

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi pledged in a message to Hezbollah to “be the voice” of “the heroic peoples of Palestine and Lebanon” during his speech at the annual session of the UN General Assembly.

“I consider it my Islamic and human duty to be the voice of the heroic peoples of Palestine and Lebanon against the aggressor and criminal Zionist regime,” he said.