On Wednesday, Hossein Amirabdollahian, the Iranian Foreign Minister, said that members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should impose an oil embargo and other sanctions on Israel and expel all Israeli ambassadors.
An urgent meeting of the OIC is taking place in the Saudi city of Jeddah to concern the escalating Israeli-Palestinian war, following a blast at a Gaza hospital late on Tuesday that killed big number of Palestinians.
The Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement, “The foreign minister calls for an immediate and complete embargo on Israel by Islamic countries, including oil sanctions, in addition to expelling Israeli ambassadors if relations with the Zionist regime have been established.”
Amirabdollahian also called for the formation of a team of Islamic lawyers to document possible war offenses committed by Israel in Gaza.
Iran has no diplomatic relations with Israel.
Before the blast at the Gaza hospital on Tuesday, health authorities in Gaza said that at least 3,000 people had died during Israel’s 11-day bombardment that began after a Hamas October 7 rampage on southern Israeli communities in which 1,300 people were killed and around 200 were taken into Gaza as hostages.
