Ahmed Kaballo, a former Press TV contributor and founder of the African Stream news network, made the remarks on Tuesday night in Tehran while talking to Press TV.
Kaballo along with several other journalists and activists arrived in Tehran on Saturday to attend the 2nd Sobh International Media Festival which was held from May 19 to May 21.
On Sunday, the helicopter carrying President Raisi and his entourage crashed as it was on its way to Tabriz, the capital of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province, from a location on the border with the Republic of Azerbaijan where the Iranian president had opened a major dam project.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and two senior provincial officials along with crew members and bodyguards also died as a result of the crash.
“Ebrahim Raisi heroically stood by the Palestinians during their own tragic circumstances and genocide enacted by Israelis,” Kaballo said.
“Ebrahim Raisi’s compassion for the civilians, for the children – you know it’s not framed like this very often but the genocide in Gaza is the war on children – and Ebrahim Raisi has not just talked about geopolitical sense. He talked about the human cost. He talked about the people who lost their lives, the families who were torn apart, and did it with compassion and sympathy,” he stated.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Kaballo said, “We are in the midst of a multipolar world. And he (Raisi) did all about to bring about that multipolar world.”
“He had relations with Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president. He met with Daniel Ortega, the Nicaraguan president,” the journalist noted.
Press TV