The Government of Iran on Thursday rejected the G7’s request to stop providing support to the Islamist group Hamas and criticized that organization for protecting the “oppressor instead of the oppressed.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Naser Kanani stressed that Tehran rejects what it considers a baseless statement by the G7, which called on Iran to “stop supporting Hamas and taking actions that destabilize the Middle East,” including its support. to the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and other non-state actors.
The G7 also reiterated its intention to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and called on Iran to “cease its relentless advances in its nuclear program, which has no credible civilian justification and comes dangerously close to weapons-related activities.”
In response, Kanani called the G7’s claims about “resistance groups in Palestine and Lebanon” false and ridiculous, before describing the demands on Iran as irrelevant.
“Since the beginning of the current crisis in Gaza, Iran has made uninterrupted efforts to end military attacks,” said the head of Iranian diplomacy.
“It is very surprising and regrettable that those who finance the occupation of the lands of the Palestinian people and the creators of the false Israeli regime, who support the war crimes of the Zionists (…) make demands and change their position, favoring the oppressor in place of the oppressed, who are the resistance and liberation groups,” Kanani said.
For the Iranian minister, “the usurpation of Palestinian lands, the mass murder and genocide of Palestinians (…), the attacks on religious places, hospitals and medical centers, causing their destruction, infanticide, imprisonment and torture of men, women and children (…) are actions that violate international law”.
“This is only part of the crimes that the occupation regime has committed and continues to commit against the oppressed people of Palestine,” said Kanani, who stressed that “what is expected of the G7 is that it fulfill its international responsibility, including condemns acts of the Zionist regime in Gaza that violate international law.”
Kanani also recalled that Iran “has often said that nuclear weapons have no place in its military doctrine” and that “the objectives of its nuclear program are completely peaceful.”
“We comply with all obligations, as confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),” he said.
Source: TSF
