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Pezeshkian at Doha meeting:
Israel emboldened after aggression on Iran
‘Words alone cannot end Israel’s genocide’
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday strongly condemned last week’s Israeli attack on the Qatari capital, saying that the regime has been emboldened after aggression on Iran.
“Unfortunately, the terrorists ruling Tel Aviv, have been emboldened by the impunity they felt after a similar betrayal to diplomacy in June during the aggressive war against the people of my country,” Pezeshkian told Arab and Muslim leaders gathered in Doha to discuss the Israeli attack on the Arab country.
Pezeshkian said the September 9 attack on Qatar, which targeted a meeting of the leaders of Palestinian resistance group Hamas, was a planned assault by the regime aimed at undermining diplomatic efforts to end its genocide in Gaza.
Top Hamas leaders had gathered in Doha to discuss a US cease-fire proposal in the Gaza Strip.
The Iranian president described the Israeli attack as a “blatant and shameless” declaration that “today military power, not the law, is the deciding factor.”
Decades of immunity
Pezeshkian said that the onslaught on Qatar, which resulted in the death of five members of Hamas, is the result of decades of immunity granted to the Israeli regime by certain Western powers.
For a long time, the world has witnessed the construction of a “fortress of support around this regime,” which has been built by US vetoes, European trade agreements, and the “paralysis of the international judicial systems,” he said.
The Iranian president also denounced the international community’s inaction over Israel’s crimes in the region, saying that over the past two years, the regime has killed more than 64,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the world only watches and expresses condemnation and Israel’s “killing machine continues its work” and has now reached Qatar.
Pezeshkian pointed to Israel’s attacks on several Muslim countries in 2025, saying that Israel’s crimes are part of a strategy of ethnic cleansing and expansionism that is supported by the US and certain Western countries.
Call for practical measure
The Iranian president underlined that, “Words alone cannot end genocide. We must isolate the aggressor, cut off their weapons and funding, and hold their leaders accountable” in international courts.”
He added, “However, these measures will not be effective without efficient unity. The Zionist regime has counted on our divisions”.
He said that attack on Doha showed that no Arab or Muslim country is safe from Israel’s acts of aggression. “Tomorrow, it could be the turn of any Arab or Islamic capital.”
Qatar's emir also said Monday that Israel had sought to derail Gaza talks by striking Hamas negotiators in his country, and that its premier dreamt of an Arab world under Israeli influence.
"Whoever works diligently and systematically to assassinate the party with whom he is negotiating, intends to thwart the negotiations... Negotiations, for them, are merely part of the war," Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said.
Israel’s ‘dangerous illusion’
He also said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "dreams of turning the Arab region into an Israeli sphere of influence, and this is a dangerous illusion."
On September 9, the Israeli regime launched a strike on Qatar’s capital, assassinating five officials of Palestinian Hamas resistance group as well as a Qatari security officer.
Qatar has been a key regional mediator in negotiations between Hamas and Israel, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened on Wednesday to try to kill Hamas leaders in Qatar again if Doha "does not expel" the group’s officials.
On the sidelines of the gathering in Doha, Pezeshkian met with the heads of states from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon and Tajikistan, exchanging views on various issues, not least the ongoing regional and international developments.