Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says the top priority for the countries of West Asia must be to stop the Israeli aggression in Gaza and attacks on Lebanon and Syria.

According to The Iran Project, “Today, we have gathered under circumstances where the West Asia region is experiencing a sensitive, complex, and unstable situation," he told a meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip on the sidelines of the D-8 Developing summit in Cairo Thursday. 

"As we approach the final days of the fourteenth month of the Israeli regime’s war against Gaza, we are witnessing a series of atrocities that represent the epitome of all the tragedies and crimes in human history committed against the Palestinian people. Moreover, in recent months, the Zionist regime has been carrying out ruthless attacks in Lebanon and Syria,” he said.

Pezeshkian stressed that acts of aggression by the occupying regime in the past year have not only deprived the Palestinian people of their rights, such as the right to independence, self-determination, security, welfare, and education, but today it has also taken away their right to life, food and water, shelter, knowledge of the fate of family members, and a life free from the sound of explosions, particularly for children and women.

“The severity of the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip and the dire humanitarian and human rights situation are such that they have deeply wounded the conscience of all honorable human beings and have drawn the condemnation of all countries and international organizations,” he aid.

The Iranian president also stressed that there must be no delay whatsoever in confronting such crimes and widespread acts of aggression, urging that actions in this regard must be prioritized through cooperation and coordination.