Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned Israel’s months-long onslaught on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing that the occupying regime and the United States would not dare perpetrate any crimes in the region if Muslims were united.
Pezeshkian made the remarks at a ceremony on Saturday to renew his cabinet’s allegiance to the ideals of Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, in his shrine in southern Tehran at the outset of the Administration Week.
Pointing to the crimes committed by the Israeli regime in Gaza, the Iranian chief executive said, “Would Israel have dared to do a damn thing in this region if Muslims had been united? Not only them, but the US, Europe and any other power, could they do any of these things?”
Israel unleashed its relentless war on Gaza after Operation al-Aqsa Storm, a retaliatory operation staged by Hamas-led resistance groups in reprisal for the regime’s decades-long crimes against Palestinians.
Israel has killed more than 40,200 Palestinians in Gaza since early October. Over 93,000 Palestinians are also injured.
Touching on a number of economic woes in Iran due to Western sanctions, Pezeshkian stated, “In our own country, we have no other way to solve our problems than increasing internal unity and cohesion.”
He expressed his gratitude to the Iranian Parliament’s approval of his proposed cabinet lineup and praised the measure as a “great message” and a beginning to “move forward with all-round unity.”
“Just like the beginning of the [Islamic] Revolution, with the unity and cohesion of the people, despite the fact that the whole world had joined hands to eradicate the revolution but could not destroy it…We can and must solve all problems by standing together,” Pezeshkian added.
The Iranian president also stressed that the enemy is “trying to sow division in the society, [and] all their efforts are meant to prevent us from being united, and we must do something not to be deceived by the enemy and maintain our unity and cohesion.”
Pezeshkian said, “Today at the shrine of Imam Khomeini, we make a pact that we will continue this path with all our strength and we will try to continue the path as far as we can.”
In a Parliament session on Wednesday, following four days of intense deliberations and hearings, the lawmakers voted in favor of all 19 ministers proposed by the new president.
Ahead of the voting, Pezeshkian addressed the legislature and urged them to approve his ministerial nominees while also calling for “unity and cohesion.”
Pezeshkian won the highest number of votes in the first round of the presidential election on June 28. He competed against the runner-up, Saeed Jalili, in the runoff election on July 5 and managed to win with 53.66 percent of votes.
Source: Press TV
