Iranian Expediency Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai has called on Muslims worldwide to demonstrate against their governments so that they would stop their silence in light of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
He said that such a protest would undermine the stability in the Middle East.
Source: ILNA, Iran, December 29, 2008
The Iranian media are reporting that the Egyptian government has prevented wounded Palestinians from being flown from Cairo in an Iranian plane that landed in Cairo to transfer humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Sources: Etemad, Iran, December 31, 2008, Fars, Iran, December 30. 2008
Hundreds of Iranian students demonstrated last night in front of a building belonging to the British diplomatic representation in Tehran, and dozens rioted inside the premises, before being arrested by Iranian security forces.
Today, unknown individuals attacked the Jordanian Embassy in Tehran with firebombs.
So far, no one has taken responsibility for the actions.
Source: Fars, Shihab News, Iran, December 31, 2008
During demonstrations across Iran yesterday, some 20,000 people signed up to volunteer to fight against Israel, and thousands more are expected to sign up today.
"On the first day of registration to fight Zionist regime and to help Palestinians, 7,000 students from the universities of Isfahan have claimed readiness," Mohammad Zarifi, member of Iran's Students Islamic Association, told the Fars news agency.
Another Iranian students group, Basij Students of Tehran Universities, announced that it is registering volunteers to fight Israel.
The registration came a day after Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious decree saying whoever dies fighting Israel and in defense of Gaza would be a martyr.
Source: Fars, Iran, December 30, 2008
Sheikh 'Afif Al-Nabulsi, head of clerics at Jabal Amel, Lebanon, has called on Muslim fighters to give top priority to strikes at Israeli diplomatic representations worldwide, and to blow up Israel's embassies wherever possible.
Source: Fars, Iran, December 30, 2008
In a phone conversation, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emphasized to the Damascus-based Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mash'al the continuation of the Palestinian resistance against Israel to reach victory.
Ahmadinejad said that the Palestinians would overcome Israel if they keep on resistance.
He then reiterated that Tehran would continue support for the troubled nation, saying that Iranians would always stand behind Palestinians.
Mash'al, for his part, said that the Zionists were trying to make Gazans choose surrendering through mounting attacks against them, but that the people will never yield and will finally overcome Zionists.
He also expressed his appreciation for Iranian aid to the Palestinians.
Source: ISNA, Iran, December 29, 2008
In a message to the nations of the world today, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, "Capitalism and Zionism, along with their supporters, are at the end of the road, and have no option but to face their annihilation."
He also condemned the atrocities of the Zionist regime and its supporters in the Gaza Strip, saying that the real Holocaust is now taking place in Gaza Strip and Palestine, and called on the nations of the world not to hesitate even for a moment to back the oppressed Palestinians in Gaza.
Source: IRNA, Iran, December 30, 2008
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that the war crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza will doubtless lead "to the destruction of the regime," and called in his talks with the presidents of Syria and Qatar and with the Islamic Jihad's secretary-general to act against it immediately.
Senior IRGC official Mir-Feysal Baqrazadeh called on the Islamic countries to fulfill the hopes of the Prophet and to destroy Israel using the military option.
Source: IRNA, Iran, December 30, 2008; ILNA, Jomhouri-e Eslami, December 29, 2008
Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami said that the collaboration by most countries in the region with "Israel's crimes in Gaza, that are like nothing else in the world," shames them, and called the Hamas regime in Gaza the only legitimate Palestinian rule.
Senior officials in Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance called on Muslims and on the people of the free world to carry out popular revolutions and uprisings in their countries as a "fitting response" to the crimes of Israel, the U.S., and the "treasonous" heads of Arab countries.
They also called on the Arab youth to renounce their "corrupt leaders."
In December 28 demonstrations by the Student Basij in front of the U.N. offices in Tehran, protestors called "Saudis, Saudis, You're Worse than the Jews," and condemned the regimes of Egypt and Saudi Arabia for their cooperation with Israel.
Sources: Iran Diplomacy, Iran, December 30, 2008; Jomhouri-e Eslami, Shihab News, Iran, December 29, 2008
A representative of the Union of Independent Student Organizations said that the attack in Gaza is a gift from Obama to the Palestinians, and that this will be U.S. policy in the next four years.
Senior Student Basij officials called to boycott Israeli and American goods, including products by Timberland, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Nokia, and Nestle, and added that "from now on, no office of companies supporting Israel is safe in Tehran."
Source: Jomhouri-e Eslami, Iran, December 29, 2008
The Iranian Sunni opposition organization Jundallah reported that it had carried out its first suicide operation yesterday, and that over 150 IRGC troops were killed in it.
The organization said that it had brought a car bomb into the IRGC base in Saravan (in Sistan-Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran), to avenge the regime's destruction of the Sunni mosque and tearing up of copies of the Koran in Zabol four months ago ("Sunni Opposition Organization In Iran Assassinated Senior IRGC Official").
Jundollah threatened additional attacks if the IRGC does not withdraw from Balochistan, which it claims does not belong to Iran.
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that the operation by Jundallah, which is says "is linked to the U.S. and Israel," killed four people.
Sources: IRNA, Jundallah website, Iran, December 29, 2008
