Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani addressed a meeting during the 1st day of in Solidarity with Al-Aqsa Conference on Sunday said that Palestine had been an issue of the whole Islamic world; however, “some Arab and imperialist governments have prioritized containing Iran in the region, pushing Palestinian issue to the second priority.”
He quoted Imam Khomeini (RA) who had famously upheld the Palestinian issue with announcing an International Quds Day, effectively setting the issue a global issue for Muslims.
The Judiciary head then turned to human rights as a weapon of exerting pressures on countries by false claimants of human rights; “they have used this pretext to demoralize those countries which would not fit to their framework of policies and which refuted their hollow boastings of supporting human rights, and Iran is such a country which has branded for its independent policies and worldviews,” he told the meeting.
Amoli Larijani condemned measures by foreign ministries of imperial states against Palestine as flagrant examples of violations of the rights of a nation; “these countries have served ironically the human rights through war crimes against Palestinians; labeling Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization is similarly condemned, since the group only has been defending parts of Lebanon against possible expansionism of the Zionist regime,” he added. “Hezbollah has now won the minds and hearts of larger part of the public in the region.”
“Saudis have clearly contributed to a shift of priorities in Islamic world through supporting terrorists and displaying a distorted image of Islam to the world through outlandish and savage conduct of a fanatic group who claims to be Islamic; their conduct has nothing to do with original Islam; there is little attempt focused on finding the routes by which terrorists receive funds and other sorts of aid,” Amoli Larijani emphasized.
Head of the Judiciary also criticized the general trend of provoking Shia-Sunni internecine sectarian strife, which he believed sought to relegate Palestinian issue to a second place in importance but contain and weaken Iran’s ever-growing influence in the region.
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