An excerpt from the last few days’ Iran News Round Ups on the events in Gaza. Of note is ‘reformist’ former president Mohammad Khatami’s vitriol against Arab countries maintaining peace with Israel, and threats to attack U.S. and British embassies.
- Defense Minister Najjar: “The Zionist regime is concerned that Hamas will develop into a formidable power like Hezbollah… Israel’s bitter defeat during the 33-day war against Hezbollah has only left bad memories which the Zionist regime desires to hide by committing new crimes…”
- Hojjat al-Eslam Ali Saidi, representative of the Supreme Leader in the Revolutionary Guards, says the “World of Islam must rise against Israel.”
- The Basij declares its readiness to send forces to Gaza to fight Israel.
- Commander Mir-Feisalzadeh of the Foundation for Preservation of Works and Values of the Sacred Defense says military option must be used against Israel.
- Iranian students register as volunteers for “suicide operations against the Zionist regime.
- Former IRGC chief Mohsen Rezai says had it not been for political considerations, he would have taken arms to fight Israel in Gaza.
- Rezai predicts Hamas victory.
- Rafsanjani says Israel’s attack in Gaza is a sign of “weakness of the Zionist regime.”
- Supreme Leader Khamenei asks how Arab leaders are “going to answer God at the day of reckoning.”
- The Supreme Leader adds “anyone who dies in this holy struggle against World Zionism is a martyr.”
- (E) Foreign Ministry says the deaths of 300 Palestinians in Gaza are the same as the genocide of 200,000+ in Bosnia.
- Anti-Israel demonstrations in Tehran.
- (E) Iran’s ‘Hollywood’ figures in solidarity with Gaza.
- Hojjat al-Eslam Mohtashami-Pour accuses Egypt of being “an accomplice of Israel in the crimes of the Zionists in Gaza.”
- SMS campaigns urge demonstrators to take over the Egyptian Interest Section in Tehran.
- Tehran police distribute candles to demonstrators in front of the Egyptian Interest Section.
- Former president Mohammad Khatami condemns “Arab countries which have made a deal with Israel, sold Palestine and bought disgrace.”
- Hojjat al-Eslam Hassan Rowhani, representative of the Supreme Leader in Supreme National Security Council: “The Zionist regime utilized discord among Islamic countries to attack Gaza… “
- (E) Iranian students storm British embassy compound.
- The Student Basij stages demonstrations in front of the U.N. Representation Office in Tehran, threaten to shut the office down in three days if the U.N. does not take action to stop Israeli attacks in Gaza. The Student Basij also says it will no longer tolerate “Zionist products in the Iranian market such as Nestle” and says “American, Israeli and British embassies all over the world will no longer be secure.”
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