Iranian President Hassan Rouhani slammed the UN over its silence on the brutal crimes staged by the Zionist entity against the Palestinians in Gaza.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani slammed the UN over its silence on the brutal crimes staged by the Zionist entity against the Palestinians in Gaza. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the Zionist entity was attacking Palestinian civilians by US weapons.

“We should all do something to make the Zionist regime [of Israel] understand that the Muslim world and regional countries back the Palestinian people and have not left them alone. This brutal regime should know that it will receive the necessary response for the crimes it is committing,” Rouhani said in a telephone conversation with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday.

“Unfortunately, the United Nations Security Council has, so far, taken no action in this regard, and we should all ask it to play an active role in this respect,” the Iranian president added.

He voiced serious concern over the spread of insecurity in the Middle East, particularly in the Gaza Strip, Syria and Iraq, expressing Tehran’s readiness to cooperate to help establish security and stability and stop the killing of Muslims in the region.

“Iran is ready to tap into all its potential as well as the potentialities of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in cooperation with Turkey. It is also necessary that Muslim countries and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) become more active in this regard,” Rouhani pointed out.

For his part, Zarif said that US arms have been used by the Zionist entity to kill the Palestinian civilians.

 “We know that all the weapons that are used by Israel in order to attack civilians in Gaza have been provided by the United States,” Zarif said in an interview with NBC’S Meet that Press.

However, the United Nations has not taken any action to condemn the US move and to use the Security Council in order to put an end to it, he added.
He called for an “immediate end” to the Israeli regime’s airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

“The United States and the rest of the members of the Security Council have a moral and legal responsibility to put an end to this,” Zarif pointed out.
“We call for an immediate end to all of these activities,” he added.

Asked if he condemns Hamas for launching rockets into Israel, Zarif said, “We do not condemn people who are defending themselves.”

“We believe that actions that are putting civilians in jeopardy in Gaza, that have placed restrictions on civilians to get access to medicine and to food…need to be vehemently condemned by the international community ,” he added.