Istanbul:
Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has emphasized the urgent need for unity among Muslim nations to confront growing challenges that Ummah faces.
The 51st Session in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council for Foreign Ministers in Istanbul condemned the Deputy Prime Minister strongly Israel’s recent attack on Iran and called them an obvious violation of the United Nations Charter.
He warned that the rising tensions in the Middle East, driven by Israeli aggression, pose a serious threat to regional peace and stability.
The Foreign Minister called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza and condemned the ongoing genocide of Palestinians and highlighted the tragic loss of thousands of innocent lives, including women and children.
“The time is for the Muslim Ummah to unite,” Dar emphasized. “OIC is expected to play a crucial and leading role in tackling these critical questions.”
He also raised serious concerns about India’s actions in the region and accused New Delhi of weapon resources against Pakistan. “Blocking of Pakistan’s water is tantamount to declaring war,” he claimed.
Dar repeated Pakistan’s call for the solution of the Jammu and Kashmir -tvist in accordance with the United Nations Security Council resolutions. He condemned Indian aggression and said that India had targeted innocent Pakistani civilians. In response, Pakistan practiced his right to self -defense, he added.
Highlighting the growing issue of Islamophobia called on the Deputy Prime Minister collective action from the Muslim world to counter rising anti-Islam mood globally.
He also expanded his gratitude to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Turkish leadership for their warm hospitality during the conference.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Western leaders of providing “unconditional support” to Israel.
A trenchant critic of Israel’s actions in both Gaza and Iran, Erdogan called for “high -level peace talks” between Tehran and the United States, according to his office, adding that Turkey was ready to play a “facilitator” role to help bring the war an end.
Erdogan, who met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of Saturday’s meeting, Turkey said would not allow borders in the Middle East to be drawn “in blood”.
“It is important for us to show more solidarity to end Israel’s Banditry – not only in Palestine, but also in Syria, in Lebanon and in Iran,” he told Oics 57 member countries.
According to Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, Araghchi also met the Gulf State’s top diplomat in Istanbul, who said he was working to bring the pages “back to the path of dialogue”.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian warned of a “more devastating” retaliation, Israeli’s nine-day bomb campaign should continue and said the Islamic Republic would not stop its nuclear program “In any case.”
Israel said on Saturday that it had killed three more Iranian commanders in his unprecedented offensive, while Foreign Minister Gideon Saar claimed that the campaign had delayed Tehran’s alleged progress towards a nuclear weapon by two years.
“We will do everything we can do there to remove this threat,” Saar told the German newspaper Bild, claiming that Israel would continue his attack.
Israel and Iran have traded wave after the wave of devastating strikes since Israel launched his air campaign on June 13 and said Tehran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon.
Iran denies seeking an atomic bomb, and on Saturday Pezeshkian said on Saturday that it is the right to pursue a civilian nuclear program “cannot be removed … by threats or war”.
In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, Pezeshkian said Iran was “ready to discuss and collaborate to build trust in peaceful nuclear activities”.
“However, we do not agree to reduce nuclear activities to zero under any circumstances,” he added according to Iran’s official Irna news agency.
Referring to the Israeli attack, he said, “Our reaction to the continued aggression of the Zionist regime will be more devastating.”
Israeli military said earlier that a strike in Qom, south of Tehran, killed Saeed Izadi, a supreme revolutionary guards responsible for coordination with Hamas. Two other commanders were killed overnight, it added.
Israel said it had also attacked Iran’s Isfahan nuclear place for the second time, with the UN’s Nuclear Guard Dog, which later reported that a centrifuge has been hit.
Top diplomats from Britain, France and Germany met Araghchi in Geneva on Friday and urged him to resume nuclear conversations with the United States that had been derailed by the war.
But Araghchi told NBC News that “We’re not prepared to negotiate with them (Americans) anymore as long as the aggression continues”.
Trump, who rejected European diplomatic efforts, said he would probably not ask Israel to stop his attacks to get Iran back to the table.
“If anyone wins, it’s a little harder to do,” he said of Israel’s campaign.
Any American involvement is likely to contain powerful bunker-busting bombs that no other country possesses to destroy an underground uranium enrichment facility in Fordo.
(With additional input from News Desk)
