TEHRAN: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday exchanged views on Israel’s deadly attacks against the Gaza Strip and Iran’s consulate in Syria, according to a statement on the website of the Iranian president’s office.
In a phone call, the Iranian president called on Muslim states to sever political and economic ties with Israel.
As regards the Israeli missile strike on the consular section of Iran’s consulate in Damascus on April 1, which killed seven Iranians, Ebrahim Raisi said what Israel did would not go unanswered.
“Today, the support provided by the United States and Western countries for Israel … have brought further disgrace to them,” Raisi said as US President Joe Biden vowed “ironclad” support for Israel’s security against “threats from Iran” as he was speaking to journalists at the White House alongside Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Wednesday.
During the phone call, the Turkish president condemned Israel’s attack against the Iranian consulate.
Pointing out Israel’s “criminal nature,” Erdogan said Israel had become more hated and isolated in the world.
