TEHRAN -– In a letter to world parliament speakers on Monday, 200 Iranian MPs condemned Israel’s ongoing massacre against Palestinians and called for bringing the Zionist criminals to justice.

Israel has launched brutal attacks against the Gaza residents and blocked all food and fuel supplies to the strip. The territory went dark on Sunday when the only power plant was shut down.
“Under the meaningful silence of the United Nations and human rights organizations, the occupying regime of Israel has acted against the international law, 1949 Geneva Conventions, and 1977 Additional Protocols and has continued massive attacks on Palestine’s occupied territories,” read the letter.
“There is no day without Israel’s slaying of innocent Palestinian families in winter’s bitter cold and showing the worst type of state terrorism through air and ground strikes.
Where are the vigilant consciences of the world? Where are peace-lovers and human-lovers to prevent the slaughter of the oppressed men, women, and children? Where are the alleged supporters of human rights? Why does not the UN Security Council take serious measures against this issue?
Iranian lawmakers, according to their legal and humanitarian duties to defend human rights, urge the world parliament speakers and lawmakers to condemn such organized crimes… and prepare the ground for bringing the perpetrators behind these crimes to trial so that such a humanitarian crisis would not be repeated.”
Emergency OIC meeting on Gaza crisis is essential
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad on Monday telephoned Saudi, Syrian, Algerian, Qatari, and Malaysian leaders to insist that it is necessity for the Organization of the Islamic Conference to hold an emergency meeting on the Zionist regime’s ongoing crimes in Gaza Strip.
Through an official letter to OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki on Sunday called on the Jeddah-based OIC to hold an emergency meeting at the foreign ministerial level.
In his calls, Ahmadinejad stated that the Islamic countries should declare their protest and not allow the Zionists to go ahead with their crimes.
It is time that the Islamic states take action and hinder crimes by the Zionist regime, the Iranian president noted.
He called for taking simultaneous “political and humanitarian” actions and urged the Arab League and OIC to study the situation and at the same time send food and medicine to Gaza to prevent a human tragedy.
Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, whose country currently chairs the 57-nation OIC, said that he will try to arrange an OIC meeting as soon as possible.
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani criticized the ignorance of certain Arab countries about the sufferings of Palestinian nation, and noted that his country is going to send financial, food, and medical aids to Gaza.
Syrian President Bashar al-Asad also condemned the Zionist regime’s recent crimes in Gaza, and said that the Islamic countries should cooperate to help stop Israel’s criminal acts.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika welcomed Ahmadinejad’s proposal, and said that in support of the Palestinian nation his country is prepared to offer any kind of cooperation with Iran.
Iran prepared to host OIC meeting
Iran is prepared to host an OIC meeting on the recent Zionist regime’s crimes in the Gaza Strip, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini revealed here on Monday.
“The condition in Gaza is the outcome of Annapolis Conference,” Hosseini told reporters in his weekly press briefing.
He called on the regional countries and international organizations to be more concerned about the sufferings of Gazans and find a solution to the tragic situation.
Hosseni added that the international bodies should be responsive to the current situation in the Gaza Strip, adding that the Zionist regime will surely retreat if it faces global demand to end its inhumane acts