Resistance not slogan, tactic: Iran acting FM

The leaders of the Palestinian Resistance groups, the chief of the political bureau of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammad Al-Hindi, the deputy secretary general of Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Muhammad al-Hindi, the deputy secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Jamil Mazhar, along with several members of the political office of all three groups met and held talks with the acting foreign minister َAli Bagheri Kani in Tehran.

They have traveled to Tehran to participate in the international commemoration of the martyrdom of President Ebrahim Raeisi and the late Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.

The Resistance leaders expressed their condolences, sympathy, and solidarity of the Resistance and Palestinian people with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, and the government, and the people of Iran.

In this meeting, the leaders of the Palestinian Resistance honored the memory of the late Iranian foreign minister, recalling his special efforts and activity in defending the rights of the Palestinian people in regional and international meetings and assemblies, praised his measures in establishing and strengthening communication with Arab and Islamic countries.

Ali Bagheri for his part appreciated the Resistance groups for their sympathy and solidarity with Iran and praised the brave resistance of the Palestinian people against the Zionist regime.

Referring to strategic rationality in the foreign policy of Iran, the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran stated that Resistance is not a slogan or a tactic, but an ideal based on real components.

He pointed out that the Resistance during more than 7 months of confrontation with the invaders armed with the most advanced weapons with the oppressed and powerful people of Gaza, the Palestinian nation kept their dignity, independence, and authority.

Referring to some statements denying the effectiveness of the Resistance by justifying it as an ideal and ignoring its practicality, Ali Bagheri stressed the Resistance has humiliated not only the Zionists in the field but also in the political, legal, and global public diplomacy arenas.

Zionists are experiencing the most unprecedented failure in the past seventy-five years that even the US’s illegitimate use of its political, legal, and public diplomacy tools and power in the international arena has not been able to create a way out for them.

Regarding the principled approach and efforts of President Ebrahim Raeisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in supporting the rights of the Palestinian people and Resistance, Bagheri Kani emphasized that Iran would do its best to defend the oppressed people of Palestine and the legitimate resistance against the Zionist occupation to stop the regime’s crimes against the nation and oppressed people of Palestine.

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