TEHRAN- According to the spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry, the U.S. and the UK’s “full and shameless” backing of Israel has played a significant role in the regime’s atrocities and deeds of genocide against the Palestinian people throughout the last seven months.

In a post on X on Sunday, Nasser Kanaani said that “by providing full and shameless support, the U.S. and British regimes have played the biggest role in the war crimes and genocide committed by the Zionist regime during seven months!”

He continued by saying that the student protests in favor of Palestine are currently being suppressed by Washington and London. 

The Iranian official forewarned the two regimes about their fruitless attempts to divert attention away from Israel’s war crimes in the eyes of the world. 

“Through disseminating false information and narratives and fake news, they cannot distract the world public opinion from their disgraceful support for the Zionist regime's war crimes and genocide against the Palestinian people,” Kanaani added. 

A number of heated and even violent incidents have resulted from rallies against the Israeli attack on Gaza taking place on U.S. campuses during the past several weeks. 

The students want schools to stop investing in firms that support the Israeli regime and that Israel stop its genocide attack on Gaza. 

After police at Columbia University, the focus of student protests, tried to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment and arrested hundreds of students, protests have spread to college campuses around the country. 

The police, who also got repression-specific training from the Israeli authorities, are using brutal techniques to quell the student movement. 

Since April 18, U.S. police have detained over 2,400 persons at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at 47 different college campuses throughout the U.S., according to the Associated Press. 

Israel started the war on October 7, 2023, in response to a retaliatory operation by the resistance forces in the Palestinian region. Since then, at least 34,683 Palestinians—mostly women and children—have lost their lives and 78,018 have been injured. 

On Saturday, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, held talks with his Turkish counterpart on the sidelines of the OIC summit, hailing Ankara’s move to put a moratorium on the trade with the Israeli regime in protest of its brutal war on Gaza.

During the meeting, Abdollahian praised the Ankara government’s recent decision to halt economic and trade ties with the Zionist regime as a “significant measure.”

The senior Iranian diplomat denounced the war crimes committed by the Israeli regime in Gaza and emphasized that the Islamic world— Iran and Turkey in particular— needs to play a bigger and more proactive role in assisting Palestine.

In another meeting between Amir Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud on Sunday, the two sides discussed bilateral and regional issues, including the situation in Gaza.  

Iran will back any agreement that protects the rights of the Palestinian people, according to Amir Abdollahian. He said that Tehran “believes the Palestinians themselves should decide the fate of Palestine,” and supports any agreement that ensures the restoration of the rights of the Palestinian people.

He clarified Iran’s principled position in punishing the Zionist regime for its terrorist attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus.

Delivering a speech at the 15th edition of the Islamic Summit of Heads of State and Governments of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Gambia on Saturday, Amir Abdollahian said that “beyond doubt, this time period will also pass by, despite all its hardships and adversities for the Palestinian nation.”

“However, the manner and quality of the role that is played by us, Muslim states, in the face of this crisis will go down in history,” the top diplomat added.

“Undoubtedly, severance of diplomatic and economic ties and [imposition of] practical arms and trade embargo [on Israel] serves as an important means of cessation of its genocide in Gaza and atrocities in the West Bank and the Noble al-Quds.”

Amir Abdollahian stressed that what the resistance did in the course of time proved that its elimination “was nothing but an illusion.”

“Because the Israeli regime is not a legitimate government. It is only an occupying apartheid power,” he said, adding, “Passage of time is not going to lend legitimacy to an occupying power.”