Bahram Qassemi made the remarks early on Friday, a day after Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifah tried to downplay as a side issue US President Donald Trump's decision torecognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital.
"It is regrettableto see an Arab and Islamic country calla seven-decade-old scar on the Islamic world's wounded body a 'side issue' and so fatuously fail to realize the simplest of world affairs, thusembarrassing itself and its people... with such mean and baseless statements," he wrote in astatement.
"Despite allcomplex plots, manufactured crises and fictitious threats propagated by the US-Zionism axis,Palestine still is and will remain the Islamic world's number one priority until it is liberated, and no one...can distract Muslimsfrom this serious issue," he added.
PressTV-UNGA unanimously votes against US move on al-Quds
The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favor of a resolution that calls on the US to withdraw its controversial recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israeli "capital."
While the Bahraini minister did not specifically mention the Jerusalem al-Quds issue, his statement came at the same time as Trumps threats before a UN General Assembly vote about his decision on Thursday.
The American head of state said Washington would withdraw US aid to countries that were going to vote against the move.
The threat, however, failed to push back an overwhelming majority of the world body's members as 128 countries voted to adopt a resolution that calls on Trump to rescind the decision.
PressTV-Trump warns UN members over Jerusalem al-Quds vote
US President Donald Trump has warned that he would cut financial aid to the countries which would vote against the U-S al-Quds policy.
At the General Assembly session, ninecountries voted in support of the Trump administration's policy. Thirty-five other nations abstained from voting.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a tweet that the vote amounted to a "resounding global NO" to Trump's "thuggish intimidation."
Bahrain maintains close ties with the US and hosts two American military bases.
