TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced on Friday that it is necessary that Muslims take action against Israel’s construction plans in East Beit-ul-Moqaddas (East Jerusalem).

The call by Iran’s foreign minister came as the 22-member Arab League set to open a summit in the Libyan city of Sirte on Saturday with a major focus on Israel’s settlement plans in the holy city.
“Expansion of settlements, shameless destruction of residential homes and Islamic and Christian sites and wide-scale construction of new synagogues ... show the Zionist plans to speed up Judaization of East Beit-ul-Moqaddas and unfortunately these moves are endorsed by American officials,” Mottaki noted.
Mottaki said Israeli leaders’ shocking remarks and moves in Beit-ul-Moqaddas are sounding the alarm for the entire world.
Mottaki also described as extremely appalling recent remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who had said “Jerusalem is not a settlement, it’s our capital.”
Calling Israeli moves in Beit-ul-Moqaddas highly “dangerous”, the foreign minister told Muslims states: “It is not an option that we just be onlookers and choose to remain motionless and lose the time in favor of long-term plans by Zionist and American officials.”
Mottaki said in order to counter Israeli plans “it is essential that a committee of OIC and Arab League foreign ministers to be established in the earliest opportunity” to seriously study developments in the holy city and take serious and effective measures. -