Pezeshkian: Israel has left nothing of human rights, intl. laws with its US-backed inhuman crimes

President Masoud Pezeshkian strongly denounces the Israeli regime for its inhuman crimes against the people of the region, while lambasting the United States for providing outright support for the atrocities.

The chief executive made the remarks at a meeting with Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in New York on Wednesday on the sidelines of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

“The Zionist regime has left nothing of the human rights and the international laws and regulations with its United States-backed inhuman crimes,” Pezeshkian said.

The president vehemently condemned the US’s political, financial, and military support for the regime towards perpetration of the atrocities, noting, “Were it not for the US’s support, the regime would definitely not be able and dare to take such criminal measures.”

The remarks especially concerned the regime’s ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip and escalated deadly attacks on Lebanon.

The war has so far claimed the lives of at least 41,495 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since its onset on October 7.

The escalation against Lebanon, which began following the launch of the brutal military onslaught, has witnessed the regime carrying out countless deadly attacks against the Lebanese territory.

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The airstrikes included rare bombardment of the villages of Joun and Maaysra—mountain areas outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds.

As part of the escalation, the regime conducted extensive airstrikes against southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 569 people, including 50 children and 94 women, and wounding 5,000 others.

The attacks came less than a week after the regime killed 38 people, including three children and seven women, in an attack on a residential building in a southern Beirut suburb.

A couple of days earlier, it had also detonated thousands of booby-trapped pagers and walkie-talkie radios across the country, killing at least 39 people and wounding 3,000 others.

Pezeshkian reminded Muslim countries of their duty to reach out to the oppressed people of Gaza and Lebanon and try to stop the regime’s atrocities in the region.

He advised those Muslim countries that maintain relations with the regime to cut their economic ties with it in order to render it incapable of resorting to criminality and aggression.

The president, meanwhile, reiterated Iran’s readiness to provide Lebanon with all instances of support.

The Islamic Republic had already dispatched relief and medical assistance to the country and its hospitals were prepared to provide medical treatment to the Lebanese people, who have been wounded in the regime’s aggression, he noted.

For his part, Mikati echoed Pezeshkian’s remarks concerning the Israeli atrocities, saying what was going on in Gaza and Lebanon today marked a departure from humanity and all international rules.

“Application of civilian equipment towards massacring innocent and ordinary people is a crime that can only be committed by the Zionist regime,” he said, referring to the regime’s detonation of the communication devices across Lebanon.

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Mikati hailed the Islamic Republic for standing by his country for many decades, urging that other Muslim countries too step up their efforts aimed at preventing the expansion of warfare across the region.

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