Iran: ’Israel’ Using Nuclear Issue to Hide Crimes

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Iran stressed Tuesday that the Zionist entity is using Tehran's nuclear program to distract from its "crimes" against the Palestinians, during a visit by an official from the Palestinian Authority.

"Under the pretext of Iran's peaceful nuclear energy program, the Zionists have always tried to distract governments and nations' public opinion from their own crimes in Palestine," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a statement.

He made the remarks during a visit to Iran by Jibril Rajub, a senior official in the Palestinian Authority.

"For the Iranian government and people, all walks of the Palestinian nation are dear. The Palestinian nation, given its brilliant record of resistance against the Zionists' aggressions, deserves all-out support from all Muslim and world countries," the top Iranian diplomat stated.

Zarif also described "Israel's" occupation of Palestinian lands as the violation of the most basic right of Palestinians, saying, "Over the past years, Zionists have used the issue of Iran's peaceful nuclear program as pretext to divert world public attention from their crimes in Palestine."
He further noted that Iran policy in negotiations with the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council - Russia, China, France, Britain, and the US - plus Germany over its nuclear energy program and a nuclear agreement with the Sextet of world powers is to divest "Israel" of its excuse.

Rajub, a senior member of Palestinian Authority president Mahmuod Abbas' Fatah movement, said the group "will not stop the resistance until the establishment of an independent Palestinian government" in east al-Quds, occupied by the Zionist entity.

He called on the "Iranian people and their government to redouble their support of the Palestinians against the occupation and against "Israel's" plans to Judaize the Holy City and expel its inhabitants."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team