Araghchi ridicules Netanyahu on ‘anchor of security’ claim
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for portraying the regime as the "anchor of security” in West Asia region, describing Israel as “the source of instability in our region.”
“The so-called ‘anchor of security in the Middle East’ is wanted for genocide and war crimes, has imposed apartheid on 7.5 million Palestinians, bombed seven countries over the past year, and has occupied Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian territory,” the Iranian foreign minister said in a post on X on Friday.
He emphasized that “Israel is the source of instability in our region.”
His remarks came as Israel has so far killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians since launching the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, before a ceasefire deal was reached in the strip last month.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants and charged Netanyahu and former Israeli minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant with war crimes in Gaza.
After the eruption of the genocidal war against Palestinians, Israel also carried out strikes in Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen.
Israel also launched airstrikes on the headquarters of Hamas in Qatar, in what was described as an "assassination operation" that claimed the lives of several members of the movement as well as a Qatari security officer.
The regime also launched an unprovoked war against Iran on June 13, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.
Gaza health officials said on Saturday that 69,169 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel’s war on Gaza so far. At least 170,685 others have also been injured.
Despite some progress in delivering food to Gazans, the territory, ravaged by war and wracked by hunger, remains in urgent need of humanitarian assistance due to the Israel’s restriction on entering aid to the besieged territory, a UN spokesperson said Friday.
The Gaza Strip is also littered with 60 million tons of rubble, mixed in with dangerous unexploded bombs and dead bodies.
Israel’s war has not only razed entire neighborhoods to the ground, displaced families multiple times and decimated medical facilities, but also poisoned the very ground and water on which Palestinians depend.