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Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Islamic Republic of Iran on the International Day of Qods

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its congratulations to all Muslims of the world on the International Day of Qods.
The Muslim world is marking the 30th anniversary of the declaration of this holy Day by the late Imam Khomeni (P.U.H) at a time when the oppressed Palestinian people and the Holy Qods as the symbol of solidarity and the core of the unity of the Muslim world are still under the occupation of the Zionist occupiers.

Sixty years after the organized occupation of Palestine, this land is still witness to the terrorist and racist attacks by the Zionist regime, killing defenseless people particularly women and children, imposing a long siege on the occupied Palestinian regions specially the Gaza strip, blocking the flow of food, medicine and fuel into these regions, expanding Jewish settlements, demolishing the economic infraustructes of Palestine and Judaizing the Holy Qods.

Over all these years, the Zionist usurping regime has resorted to racist and expansionist measures to change the fabric and demography of the Holy Qods and its extensive, illegal and provocative excavations have exposed a constant threat to the historical and religious monuments of this city, particularly Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Given the dangers emanating from the presence of the illegitimate, fabricated Zionist regime in the Middle East, Islamic Republic of Iran has always stressed the need for the protection of the Islamic identity of the Holy Qods and Palestine as well as the unity and cohesion of the Muslim Ummah, believing that only the strong will of the regional Muslim nations backed with their belief in the victory of the Resistance which has scored brilliant achievements for Palestine and the Muslim Ummah can curb the acquisitive ambitions of the regime usurping the Holy Qods.
The International Day of Qods demonstrates grassroots support of independent, free-minded peoples of the world for the Intifadas of the oppressed valiant people of Palestine against the Zionist occupiers.

Relying on such broad-based support, the Palestinian people are raising their outcry for the full removal of occupation from the historical land of Palestine, liberation of the Holy Qods and freedom of all Palestinians, particularly the elected representatives of this nation in the legislative Assembly of Palestine held prisoners by the Zionist regime and the return of all Palestinian refugees to their ancestral lands. They also  call on all other free-minded peoples of the world to support the Palestinian resistance and struggle against the state terrorism and the racist policies of the regime occupying the Holy Qods.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Islamic Republic of Iran invites all Muslim and free-minded nations of the world to celebrate the International Day of Qods more gloriously then ever in different parts of the world to show their full solidarity with the Palestinian people and their support for the Holy Qods and calls on the whole Palestinian nation, particularly all Jihadi and political groups to preserve their unity around the lofty goals of the Palestinian revolution and avoid any divisions amongst their ranks which benefit only the Zionist, occupying regime

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