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Monday, August 4, 2014
Iran denounces UN for inaction on Gaza
In a speech this morning to the Palestine Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounces the inaction of the UN Security Council in its response to the “slaughter” of Palestinians in Gaza.
“The savage aggression of the army of this child-killing regime [Israel] continues with a deliberate policy of genocide through killing civilians and destroying infrastructure, homes, medical centers, schools and mosques,” says Rouhani.
He denounces “the inaction of international bodies, in particular the [UN] Security Council, in preventing the Zionist regime’s crimes against humanity.”
— AFP and Times of Israel staff