The regime “has trampled on all the international laws, human rights, and whatever [instance of] humanity,” the chief executive told Russia’s Rossiya 1 state television channel on the sidelines of a forum in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat on Friday.
Pezeshkian was referring to the regime’s bloodletting spree throughout the region, including its October 7, 2023-present genocidal war on the Gaza Strip that has so far killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, as well as its escalated attacks on Lebanon, which have claimed thousands of other lives.
“No one [however] can say anything to the regime because the United States and Europe are supporting it,” he added.
The regime’s Western supporters, most importantly its biggest ally, the United States, have, throughout the course of the atrocities, been providing it with billions of dollars' worth of military support. They have also been shielding Tel Aviv against punitive international measures, including those taken by the United Nations, with their negative votes or abstentions.
Pezeshkian’s remarks echoed those that he had made earlier during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladmir Putin in the Turkmen capital.
In those remarks, the Iranian president had regretted that the regime’s atrocities had caused the regional situation to become “critical,” and denounced the US and European countries for refusing to let relations among the regional countries to continue on a peaceful footing.
Elsewhere in his remarks to the Russian television, Pezeshkian asserted that Iran’s attitude towards all regional countries was based on the values that have been underscored by the United Nations, namely peace, security, and human dignity.
Meanwhile, Speaking on the sidelines of the International Conference of "Interconnection of Times and Civilizations - The Basis of Peace and Development" on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of renowned Turkmen poet "Makhtumgholi Faraghi" in Ashgabat, President Pezeshkian emphasized that the criminal Zionist regime should stop killing, massacring innocent people, bombing houses.
Regarding Iran’s relations with Russia, he said, “We generally had a good relationship with neighboring countries from long ago.”
He then pointed to this year's slogan of the United Nations and added that ‘peace, security and human dignity’ is the slogan raised by the United Stations in this year i.e. all countries should deal with each other based on peace, security and dignity.
Whether in connection with Russia, which has an old and longstanding relationship with Iran, or all the countries in the region, “we would like to live with all of them in peace and security and maintain human dignity,” President Pezeshkian underlined.
Iran president highlights need for global ‘peace, brotherhood’
Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed the need for peace and brotherhood across the world.
“We should live in peace and brotherhood in the region and expand bilateral relations,” the president said in a meeting with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow in Ashgabat on Friday.
He referred to Iran’s principled policy of further engagement with neighbors which is also supported by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and said, “We are neighbors and have long joint borders, and in addition to neighborhood, we are also relatives.”
The president of Turkmenistan, for his part, hailed ‘valuable’ remarks by President Pezeshkian at a ceremony earlier in the day in Ashgabat to mark the 300th birth anniversary of Makhtumkuli Fragi, a great poet and philosopher of Turkmenistan.
The two presidents also underscored the necessity for promotion of bilateral cooperation in different cultural, economic and political areas.
MNA