Iran’s interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani has held the United States accountable for aiding and abetting the Zionist regime in the genocidal crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, stressing that Washington can’t be an impartial mediator as it is obstructing efforts to establish a ceasefire in the coastal sliver.

According to The Iran Project, “Through open support for Zionists’ atrocities, the United States has proven its complicity and that it cannot be an impartial mediator. It is constantly trying to place hurdles on the path of stopping the occupying regime’s brutalities, and encouraging Zionists to continue their genocide,” Bagheri Kani told Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty in a telephone conversation on Saturday evening.

He stressed that the Israeli regime is perpetrating atrocities in Gaza at the same time as exercising hypocrisy and deceit in negotiations aimed at brokering a ceasefire in the besieged strip.

Commenting on the Israeli assassination of the political bureau chief of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the top Iranian diplomat stated that the Islamic Republic reserves its inherent and legitimate right to respond to the crime.

Bagheri Kani stressed that Palestinians, thanks to their exemplary courage, will not surrender to the Zionist regime.