WB Annexation Remarks Another Sign of Israel’s Racist, Expansionist Nature: Iran

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei on Wednesday said the Israeli minister’s statement is yet another clear sign of the racist and expansionist nature and the aggressive approach of a regime that was created and expanded based on grabbing Palestinian territories and carnage as well as forced displacement of Palestinians.

The spokesman referred to the colonialist policy of the Zionist regime throughout the past 76 years and its continued encroachment of Palestinian territories and Israel’s settlement expansions.

Baqaei said this policy is part of the Israeli genocide and its policy of wiping out Palestine, which have been implemented in the most brutal way possible over the past year.

He emphasized the legal and moral responsibility of all governments to prevent and punish genocide as well as to deal with war crimes and crimes against humanity and strongly regretted the failure of the US and Germany to hold the leaders of the regime accountable and to drag them before the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.

Baqaei called for decisive action by the international community and the UN Security Council to stop the genocide in Palestine and the war-mongering acts of the occupying regime in Lebanon and West Asia, the Foreign Ministry’s website reported.

He stressed that an entity that has no faith in the principles and standards of international law and the UN Charter, and its declared and applied policy is to humiliate and weaken the UN and its norms and institutions, does not deserve to be a member of this body.

The Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that the atrocities and crimes of the occupiers will not in the least weaken the will of the oppressed Palestinian people to fight for their natural and legal right to self-determination and liberation from the yoke of military occupation and apartheid.

Baqaei's statements came in response to the November 11 remarks by Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Smotrich said he had ordered preparations for the annexation of the West Bank in the hope that the regime would gain sovereignty over the region in 2025.