By Xinhua,
TEHRAN : Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called on the United Nations to bring Israeli leaders to justice, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The president made the remarks in a meeting with the visiting chief of Hamas Political Bureau Khalid Mashaal who arrived here Sunday for talks with senior Iranian officials on major regional and international issues.
Ahmadinejad urged the United Nations to bring Israeli leaders to justice for “crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza,” the report said.
Earlier in January, the Iranian president also urged the international court of justice to prosecute Israeli leaders for “war crimes” in Gaza.
During Monday’s meeting, Ahmadinejad outlined an urgent need for quick reconstruction of Gaza and reopening of the crossroads leading to the Gaza Strip, while putting “the Zionist regime” under political pressure in order to prevent continued Israeli aggression on Gaza.
Reiterating the Iranian officials’ rhetoric of victory for Palestinians, he warned that the “defeated Zionists” might try to launch another war against Palestinians, asking the Gazans to “remain vigilant about Zionists further aggression in the future.”
Mashal, for his part, said that the (claimed) victory over the Israeli troops in Gaza was a “miracle from God,” which “brought honor to Palestinians and those countries that supported the Islamic resistance” and “Iranians share in the victory of the people of Gaza over the Zionist occupiers.”
On Sunday, Meshaal met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, and presented him a complete report on the 22-day war in Gaza and briefed him on the resistance in Gaza in the fight against “Zionist criminals.”
Mashaal arrived in Iran on Sunday as a part of his regional tour that “previously took him to Egypt, Qatar, Syria and Turkey.”
Iran never hesitated to pronounce its all-out support for Hamas during the three-week unprecedented Israeli military offensive on Gaza, during which about 1,400 Palestinians were killed and 5,500 others wounded.