Iran calls for all-out boycott of Israel

Iran’s ambassador to the UN has called for an “all-out boycott” of Israel, saying that a recent attack on ships carrying aid to Gaza showed Tel Aviv’s brutality.

Mohammad Khazaei made the comments at an emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in New York on Thursday, IRNA reported.

The meeting was held at Khazaei’s request to review different aspects of the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla which left several activists dead.

Khazaei also hailed Nicaragua’s decision to cut its ties with Israel to protest the attack and called on all “independent states to listen to their conscience by cutting all trade, financial and diplomatic relations with Israel.”

“An all-out boycott of the Zionist regime will prevent it (Israel) from repeating its crimes against humanity,” he said.

The Israeli navy attacked the Freedom Flotilla, which was carrying 10,000 tons of food and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, in international waters more than 150 km (90 miles) off the coast of Gaza.

Three of activists who were aboard the ships are still missing.

Iran’s UN envoy also proposed that all countries simultaneously send ships carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip to break the three-year-long Israeli-imposed blockade.