Regional Consensus Necessary for Action against Israel: Pezeshkian – Politics news

In comments at a joint press conference with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Sunday, Pezeshkian said Iran and Pakistan share views on many regional and international developments.

Tehran and Islamabad believe that the security of the nations are interrelated and the expansion of relations will be ensured through peace, stability, and calm, he said.

Pezeshkian stated that he and the Pakistani prime minister have condemned the Israeli regime’s inhuman crimes in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria, its relentless genocidal crimes in Gaza, and its flagrant acts of aggression across the region.

Iran and Pakistan stress that more effective and practical cooperation should be shaped through interaction among the regional countries, specifically the Muslim nations, to stand against the Zionist regime, he noted.

Pezeshkian said the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression have highlighted the necessity of regional consensus against the Israeli law-breaking.

“We, the two countries, call on the international institutions and the United Nations Security Council to avoid double-standards and play an active role in preventing aggression against the member states, the spread of war, violation of the countries, and massacre of civilians,” the Iranian president said.

Pezeshkian also expressed gratitude to the Pakistani government, parliament, political parties and clerics for standing by Iran during the Israeli and US war of aggression.

While the Zionist regime waged an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran on June 13 and struck Iran’s military, nuclear and residential areas for 12 days, the US stepped in and conducted military attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan on June 22.

The Iranian military forces conducted powerful counterattacks immediately after the aggression. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III that inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.

Also, in response to the US attacks, Iranian armed forces launched a wave of missiles at al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.

A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 brought the fighting to a halt.