Iran’s VP off to Riyadh for extraordinary OIC-Arab league meeting

Iran’s Vice president Mohammad Reza Aref left for Riyadh on Monday morning for the extraordinary Arab and Islamic summit.

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Date: 11 November 2024 - 11:08

TABNAK, Nov, 11 : Aref is accompanied by Mohsen Haji Mirzaei, President’s chief of Staff.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) extraordinary summit will be held with the proposal of Iran, and mainly seeks stopping the war in Lebanon and Palestine.

Providing aid to the refugees and the victims of the crimes of the Zionist regime is another goal of the meeting, he said before departing for Riyadh.

Muslim and Arab leaders have begun arriving in Saudi Arabia for a summit that will focus on Israel’s ongoing aggression in wars in Gaza and Lebanon.

Attendees at the summit on Monday will “discuss the continued Israeli aggression on the Palestinian territories and the Lebanese Republic and the current developments in the region,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

On Sunday afternoon, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan chaired the preparatory ministerial meeting for the extraordinary Arab and Islamic summit ahead of Monday’s session.

In a letter to OIC Secretary-General Hussein Ibrahim Taha last month, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called for collective diplomatic efforts to stop the Israeli regime’s atrocities against the innocent people of Gaza and Lebanon, secure a ceasefire and facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid.

Araghchi also sent letters to his counterparts around the world last Thursday.

The death toll from the US-Israeli more than a year-long genocide has now risen to over 43,600.

Israel launched a ground assault and massive air campaign against Lebanon in late September after a year of exchanging fire across the Lebanese border in parallel with the Gaza war.

More than 3,100 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon over the last year, the vast majority in the past six weeks.