The director general for International Peace and Security at the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the occupying Israeli regime is the main obstacle to achieving stability and sustainable development in the Muslim world and the West Asia region.

According to The Iran Project, Asadullah Eshraq Jahromi made the remark in an address to the 50th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde on Friday.

Eshraq Jahromi expressed deep concern over the ongoing Israeli atrocities against the oppressed Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past eleven months and roundly denounced the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.

He called on the international community and the OIC to adopt a decisive measure aimed at the immediate cessation of Israeli actions, which amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

The top Iranian diplomat underlined the need for holding Israel to account for the crimes it is perpetrating in the occupied Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the region.

Eshraq Jahromi emphasized that the root causes of insecurity and tensions in the West Asia region need to be addressed.