Tehran has reservations about the “two-state solution” and the Palestinian “Liberation Organization”.
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani expressed 4 reservations on Tehran’s part about the final statement of the Arab-Islamic summit on the war in the Gaza Strip, despite praising the tone and phrases used in the Riyadh Declaration.
Iranian media quoted Kanaani as saying: “Despite the strong text, it includes a number of paragraphs about which the Islamic Republic of Iran has always had reservations previously.”
The official IRNA news agency said Iran would send a memorandum to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for inclusion in the final report, stressing that Iran has “4 reservations.” Kanaani said in this regard: “We announced at the summit of senior officials that the Islamic Republic has reservations about the two-state solution, the 1967 borders and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
Kanaani also expressed Tehran’s reservations regarding the final declaration that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and calls on Palestinian factions and forces to unite under its umbrella and all to carry one’s responsibility. responsibility in light of a national partnership led by the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Kanaani said: “All Palestinians and Palestinian groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization, represent the Palestinian people and have the right to fight the occupier and achieve self-determination in accordance with international laws.”
Kanaani reviewed 10 proposals, which Tehran said were presented by the Iranian president in his speech before the Arab-Islamic summit, and said: “Most of these proposals that the Islamic Republic put forward during the negotiation of the document were included in the final decision. “
The Iranian government spokesperson’s media website said Kanaani’s position “came in response to allegations that Iran had no reservations regarding the final statement of the Riyadh summit,” without providing details.
Immediately upon his return from Riyadh to Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi raised Tehran’s reservations about the two-state solution. In statements to the press at Mehrabad airport he declared: “We are present at this meeting and, contrary to what some say about the future of the Palestinian issue, within the framework of the two-state solution, we have proposed a democratic solution based on the return to the voices of all Palestinians, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, to determine their fate.”
Iranian officials are wont to raise the idea of holding a global referendum in the historic Palestinian territories, without recognizing Israel, and claim that it is “the proposal of the Iranian leadership that Tehran sent to the United Nations.” Recently, Iranian officials have repeated these accusations, despite international and regional silence.
Raisi said: “The passage of time does not give legitimacy to Israel and its right to property.” Stressing that his participation in the Riyadh summit was important in two respects: The first is that the meeting took place in the presence of all Islamic and Arab countries, the second is that the theme of the summit was the world and all its peoples.
He continued: “One of the fundamental differences in our presence and our speech, compared to other participants, was that America was considered the main culprit of these crimes.”
For his part, Ali Shamkhani, political affairs advisor to Iranian leader Ali Khamenei, said that “the declaration of 57 Islamic and Arab countries at the Riyadh summit is a necessary condition for effective action against the entity’s growing crimes Zionist”. deemed “insufficient”.
He added in a post on the “X” platform, which is banned in Iran, that “serious tools, such as energy, trade, transportation, breaking ties and the seats that these countries have at their disposal in international groups, must support these decisions.”
In parallel, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced the availability of its ground units in terms of equipment and personnel throughout the country.
The commander of the Revolutionary Guard ground unit, Muhammad Pakpour, headed to the southwestern borders of the country, where he was briefed on the combat and defensive readiness of his forces.
The government agency “Mehr” quoted Pakpour as saying: “The (Al-Aqsa Flood) operation nullified the main military strategies of the Zionist entity.”
In turn, the deputy commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Ali Fadavi, said that Israel and the countries supporting it “received a strategic defeat”, underlining that the “Resistance Front” groups are now launching high-precision missiles on the territory Israeli.
He spoke about the shooting down of two Israeli and American advance marches in Gaza and Yemen. He said: “Today we are planning against evil people in the world, and this is the result of the actions we are taking,” according to the website “Sepah News”, the official mouthpiece of the “Revolutionary Guards”.
American officials said Wednesday that the Iran-aligned Houthi group shot down the MQ9 drone off the coast of Yemen.
After the escalation of attacks against American forces in the region, Iranian officials said that groups associated with them “do not take orders from Tehran.”
What the Iranian government, led by Ebrahim Raisi, announced regarding the submission of proposals has evoked mixed responses in political circles. Hassan Hanizadeh, an analyst on West Asian affairs at government agency ISNA, said the Iranian president’s proposals “were practical and firm.” He added: “Iran has demonstrated that it is looking for a practical solution,” but expressed pessimism about the possibility of achieving it.
In the same context, former Iranian diplomat Mohsen Pak Ayin also told ISNA that Iran “has put forward strong and workable proposals, and efforts must be made to implement them.” He continued: “I still believe that the diplomatic apparatus must present these proposals through bilateral and multiple diplomatic routes.”
But Iranian political analyst Ahmad Zaidabadi noted that “the ten proposals put forward by the Iranian president did not arouse any interest, not even 5%.” He added: “This issue shows that there is a wide gap between the Islamic Republic’s vision of the Palestinian issue and the vision of other Islamic countries.”
Zaidabadi writes, in an analysis reported by Iranian news sites, that the gap is due “to the fact that Islamic countries do not go beyond the rules specified in the international system, while the leadership of the Islamic Republic does not care about the limits determined by the system international function of the State, and presents itself as a revolutionary organization in the field”. External. Therefore, the closer the position of the Islamic Republic is to the positions of armed groups in the Middle East, the further it is from the positions of the countries in the region.”