Iran’s Khamenei calls on Muslim countries to block fuel from reaching Israel

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls on Muslim countries to prevent the delivery of fuel and other products to Israel, which he claims “prevents water from entering the Gaza Strip.”

His comments come as a drone strike reportedly damaged a ship off the coast of India. The US on Friday said Iran has been “deeply involved” in the planning of attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels against commercial vessels in the Red Sea, disrupting global shipping.

“Muslim nations should demand from their regimes to stop assistance to Israel and break ties with it,” Khamenei says, at a meeting with people from the Khuzestan and Kerman provinces in Tehran.

On October 9, two days after Hamas carried out its devastating massacre in southern Israeli communities, Israel cut off the piped water it sends into Gaza, which amounts to some nine percent of the coastal enclave’s water supply in peacetime. It has since reopened some of the supply to designated humanitarian zones.

Khamenei also claims again that Israel will one day be wiped off the face of the Earth.

“God willing, this promise is one of the certainties of the future. Young people, see that day with your own eyes. With God’s help and strength, and with God’s permission and glory, this will happen, and God willing, I hope that you the youth will see that day with your own eyes.”

Khamenei says Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom are indistinguishable in the eyes of the international community due to their support of the ongoing military offensive in Gaza following Hamas’s October 7 shock onslaught.

“The US shamelessly vetoes the Security Council resolution for a ceasefire, unmasking the face of the Western civilization,” he says, referencing Washington’s efforts to block such measures.

“The great victory of the Palestinian nation is that they discredited the West and the US and their false claims of human rights.”

Iran, which supports Hamas financially and militarily, has hailed the terror group’s murderous October 7 attack as a “success” but denied any direct involvement.