‘US averse to accepting Islam’s power’

Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Speaker Ali Larijani says the United States does not want to accept the power of the Muslim world in resolving regional and international issues.

“The US is averse to accepting the potential power of the Islamic world in resolving different regional and international crises,” Larijani said at a Saturday meeting with his Qatari counterpart Muhammad bin Mubarak al-Khalifi on the sidelines of the 5th International Conference on Palestinian Intifada in the Iranian capital, Tehran.

The senior Iranian legislator hailed the wide participation of political and parliamentary officials from different Muslim and non-Muslim countries in the conference as the sign of the importance of the issue of Palestine, IRNA reported.

The two-day 5th International Conference on Palestinian Intifada, which opened in Tehran on Saturday, focuses on the restoration of Palestinians’ rights, including their right to return to their land, determine their fate as well as the liberation of the territories occupied by Zionist Israel.

The conference indicates the resolve of the Islamic Ummah to restore the rights of the Palestinian nation and to put an end to the decades-long oppression by Zionist Israel, Larijani pointed out.

Qatar’s Parliament Speaker Muhammad bin Mubarak al-Khalifi, for his part, underlined the importance of the Intifada conference at the current point in time and praised the speech by The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei at the inauguration of the event.

During his speech at the opening ceremony of the conference in Tehran, The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei urged Muslim countries to end all ties with Zionist Israel, rejected any plan seeking to split Palestine and called for the liberation of all lands belonging to Palestinians.

The Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei said that a solution suggesting the existence of a Palestinian state along an Israeli one amounted to the violation of Palestinians’ rights, adding that any plan needed to be based on the principle of “All of Palestine for all Palestinians.”

Representatives, parliament speakers and scholars from different countries as well as a number of Palestinian leaders are attending the 5th International Conference on Palestinian Intifada in Tehran.

The conference has chosen “Palestine, Homeland of Palestinians” as its motto.