Iran’s president felicitates Christian countries on New Year
Pezeshkian hopes war, genocide to end in 2025
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in separate messages on the occasion of the New Year and Christmas expressed hope that oppression, violence, war, and genocide will end in 2025.
Pezeshkian extended Christmas and New Year greetings to the leaders and people of the countries celebrating the auspicious occasions.
He expressed hope that peace and tranquility would be established worldwide in 2025.
The Iranian president noted that Jesus Christ is the prophet of light and mercy whose birth is the celebration of peace and morality in human societies.
Like all divine prophets, Christ’s teachings are the solution to eliminating injustice, he added.
In a post on his official X account on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei extended Christmas and New Year greetings to Christians around the globe, including “fellow Christian compatriots” in Iran.
As the world begins new year, people in many countries including Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan, are struggling to survive severe conditions caused by the conflicts in their countries.
In the Gaza Strip where Israel has launched a devastating war since October 2023, more than 45,000 Palestinians have been killed and most of the territory’s population have been forcibly displaced.
Conflicts in other parts of the world have also caused severe conditions for the people.
Call for solidarity with Palestine
The Hamas resistance group, which has been fighting Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since 2023, has called on “all free people in the world, who celebrate Christmas, to translate these celebrations into a mass movement against the war of genocide” against Gaza.
“Let these celebrations be a global occasion to continue and escalate all forms of demonstrations and marches” against Israel’s aggression, a statement said.