Hans Rustad Irans Fører, Ali Khamenei, utstedte en fatwa søndag som ba alle muslimer verden over om å forsvare Gaza. De som gjør det blir martyrer. Han hudflettet også arabiske ledere som ikke forsvarer Hamas og Gaza.
«All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world’s pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr,» state television quoted Khamenei as saying in a statement outlining the fatwa.
Khamenei also criticized some Arab governments for their «encouraging silence» towards the Israel’s raids on Gaza. «The Zionist regime must by held accountable by Islamic governments. The heads of this regime must be held personally accountable for these crimes and the ongoing siege,» the religious leader said.
Irans ledere kvier seg ikke for å spille ut nazi-kortet.
Alaeddin Borujerdi, a legislator and head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, endorsed these sentiments early Sunday when he compared Israel’s aerial attack on Gaza to Nazi crimes.
«The Zionists are doing what Hitler did during World War II, when they attacked innocents in a barbaric manner,» Borujerdi told the state-run Iranian news agency IRNA, during a pro-Palestinian rally in the nation’s capitol, attended by several Iranian parliamentarians.
Tidligere atomforhandler, Ari Larijani, ledet en demonstrasjon og han kritiserte Egypt for å ha sviktet palestinerne.
Arab nations standing silent in the face of Israel’s operation «are making a strategic mistake because they think that they can change the situation on the ground in their favor,» he said.
Echoing Khameini and Larijani’s hints, Borujerdi called Egypt out by name and censured the Arab nation for being the primary obstacle to Iran’s attempts to send aid to Gaza. «Iran asked Egypt to allow aid to be sent by sea or air and received only preliminary agreement,» he said.
