President Raeisi: Iran’s core policy supports countries’ distancing from Israel

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the Islamic Republic’s core policy is to support countries’ distancing from Israel.

“Negligence by some Muslim countries with respect to this principled policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran has inflicted a heavy blow to the Islamic Ummah,” Raeisi said in a meeting with Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali al-Sadiq Ali in Tehran on Monday.

He added that the criminal Israeli regime has always hatched plots to obstruct Muslim countries’ path towards progress.

Israel would be neither a friend of Muslim countries nor interested in their development, he emphasized.

The Iranian president criticized some Muslim countries’ move to normalize relations with the Tel Aviv regime, which he said runs counter to their nature.

“Had these countries tried to cut off their relations with the Zionists, today we would not have witnessed the continuation of attacks and bombings against the oppressed and Muslim people of Gaza,” Raeisi pointed out.

Four Arab countries – the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco – agreed to normalize relations with Israel under US-brokered agreements in 2020, when former US President Donald Trump was in office.