Iran FM in Saudi Arabia to attend OIC extraordinary meeting on Gaza
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives in Saudi Arabia to attend an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Council of Foreign Ministers.
Heading a diplomatic delegation, Araghchi arrived in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Sunday to attend the OIC meeting, which will open on Monday at the request of Iran and some other countries.
During the two-day event, the participants will discuss the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, possible ways to put an end to Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine, and bring the criminal Zionists to trial.
The OIC said the meeting will focus on the ongoing Israeli atrocities in Gaza and aims to coordinate member states’ positions and responses.
The Jeddah meeting comes amid Israel's planned occupation of Gaza City, its crimes of genocide and starvation, and the unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The Iranian foreign minister also plans to hold meetings with a number of his counterparts from Muslim countries.
In an article published in Asharq al-Awsat ahead of the OIC meeting, Araghchi warned that the illusion of a “Greater Israel” represents an existential danger and a grave threat to international peace and security, calling on Muslim nations to take collective action to counter Israel’s expansionist agenda.
Araghchi wrote that the upcoming session must serve as a turning point to solidify the collective resolve of Muslim states.
Israel launched a US-backed genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the regime's decades-long campaign of death and devastation against Palestinians.
The regime’s genocidal war on Gaza has so far killed at least 62,622 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
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