Iran to have ‘active presence’ in OIC’s urgent meeting on Palestine: FM
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the country will actively attend an urgent ministerial meeting planned by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss the escalating situation in the Gaza Strip in Palestine.
Amir-Abdollahian said on Sunday upon ending an official visit to Qatar that Iran had been invited to attend OIC's meeting which is planned for October 18 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran has been invited to the extraordinary meeting of the OIC and we will actively attend this session,” said the minister.
The decision by the OIC’s Executive Committee to convene the urgent meeting, which has been based on an invitation by the organization’s current rotating chair Saudi Arabia, comes days after Iran called for such a gathering amid the escalating military situation in Gaza.
More than 2,450 people have been killed and around 10,000 have been injured in nearly eight days of Israeli attacks on Gaza, a besieged Palestinian enclave of the Mediterranean which is home to 2.3 million people.
The brutal attacks started on October 7 hours after the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launched an unprecedented round of attacks on Israeli-occupied territories of Palestine to retaliate months of bloody violence caused by the Israeli settlers and military forces.
Iran has warned that the situation in Palestine and in the region would deteriorate if other countries do not move to stop Israeli aggressions in Gaza.
Amir-Abdollahian had arrived in Qatar late on Saturday on the last leg of a regional tour which also took him to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
During his tour, Iran’s top diplomat held intensive talks with counterparts and senior officials of the four countries to discuss the situation in Palestine.
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