Tehran(IP) - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran appreciated the efforts of the Secretary General of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation in the defense of the rights of the Palestinian people.

Iran PressIran news: The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation is an economic group of eight developing Islamic countries including Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, and Nigeria.

This group was formed on June 15, 1997, at the suggestion of Necmettin Erbakan (the leader of the Islamic Welfare Party and Prime Minister of Turkey at the time) to strengthen the member countries' economic cooperation.

According to the General Department of Information and Spokesperson Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, "Hossein Amir-Abdollahian" in a letter to " Isiaka Abdulqadir Imam ", the Secretary General of The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation appreciated the joint statement of the recent meeting of this organization in support of Palestinian people and efforts to coordinate the actions of this organization and emphasized Iran's support for the actions of this organization to stop the Zionist crimes in Gaza.

The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs also recently requested in letters to the President and Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to speed up the handling of the Palestinian case and the trial of the criminals of the recent crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Amir-Abdollahian also emphasized in letters to the head of the African Union Commission, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the General Secretaries of the Alba Union and ASEAN, to take more effective steps to permanently stop the crimes of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance groups launched a surprise operation called "Al-Aqsa Flood from the Gaza Strip against the positions of the occupying Quds regime.

Israeli regime to compensate for its defeat and stop the operations of the resistance groups closed all the crossings and continued to bombard the area.

Gaza’s Health Ministry spokesman says about 18,000 Palestinians have been killed and 49,500 wounded in Israeli attacks since October 7.

205

Read More:

Iran urges more effective EU measures to stop Israeli crimes in the Gaza strip