IRI Speaker highlights Palestinian issue

Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said on Wednesday that Palestine is the main problem of the world of Islam.

"It is for 60 years that criminal West has imposed Israel on the world of Islam like a dagger and occupied the first Qibla of Muslims," said Haddad-Adel in an address to a group of parliamentarians.

He said today, Muslim world has been awakened and Muslims have regained their identity.

He added that Americans too intend to deceive public opinion by their lies, which are broadcast by the media run by the Zionists. He went on to say that the West's claims of democracy, freedom and human rights are all false.

The Iranian top parliamentarian said the America penetrated Muslim states under the false slogan of support for freedom.

"Today, defenseless people of Gaza are besieged from everywhere and Americans call the act as support for freedom," he added.

The Speaker said the West stakes claims to campaign against terrorism while all its own acts are in line with terrorism.

"The head of the usurper state of Israel votes at the Zionist regime's cabinet to assassinate the Palestinian leaders and Americans support him but the freedom lovers who resist for the sake of their own land are called terrorists," he added.

He said the Zionist regime's cabinet calls for assassination of Secretary General of Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement, Hizbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah under the pretext of self-defense.