Iranian MPs call for holding urgent OIC meeting

Ten Majlis deputies, in a written note to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday, called for holding a meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference urgently.

The MPs called for an OIC extraordinary session to practically confront with the new wave of Zionists' brutality against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

The note was read by Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel during the morning session of the Majlis.

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Sunday drew the OIC attention toward the current situation in Gaza Strip.

In separate messages to the OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and several OIC foreign ministers, Mottaki condemned the Zionists' brutality.

Warning against the occurrence of a great human catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, he called on the OIC foreign ministers to hold an extraordinary meeting to review the inhumane crimes of the Zionist regime.

In related developments, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in his consultations with Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, as the current OIC chairman, has called for holding the foreign ministerial meeting urgently.