Iran calls Palestine ‘deepest wound in human conscience’

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei emphasized that Palestine remained “the most universal cause for justice and solidarity,” highlighting the ongoing struggles faced by Palestinians under the “occupying apartheid regime.”

The official was referring to the regime’s decades-old practice of exercising a deadly and extremist racist agenda against Palestinians, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of them, including as part of the underway war of genocide in the Gaza Strip, and displacement of millions of others among them.

The genocide, which began in October 2023, alone has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and reduced the biggest part of the coastal sliver into rubble.

The regime has been engaging in daily deadly violations of a ceasefire deal clinched in early October with Gaza’s Hamas resistance movement in, what observers have called, continuation of the genocidal pattern.

Baghaei condemned the continued violence and oppression inflicted upon Palestinians, pointing to the role played by the United States and its allies in providing impunity for the atrocities.

He called on the international community to move beyond rhetoric and fulfill its legal and moral obligations by supporting “the legitimate resistance of the Palestinian people to end occupation and secure their fundamental human right to self-determination.”

The remarks came as human rights activists and ordinary people worldwide mark the day with demonstrations, information campaigns, and calls for concrete action to end the regime’s Western-backed campaign of occupation of Palestinian territories and aggression against Palestinians.