TEHRAN – Supreme National Security Council Secretary Saeed Jalili stated here on Monday that the continued blockade of the Gaza Strip represents an “economic genocide”.

At a meeting with Hamas Political Bureau Chief Khaled Meshaal in Tehran on Monday, Jalili said the Iranian nation will continue to support the cause of Palestine.
Jalili praised the victories of the Islamic resistance movements in the 33-day war on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and the 22-day war o the Gaza Strip in January 2009.
He said the achievements in the two wars show that resistance is the only possible way for the oppressed Palestinians to liberate their land.
During the meeting Meshaal thanked the Iranian nation and people for their full support to the Palestinian people’s resistance against the Israeli occupation.