TEHRAN- Ali Shamkhani, political advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, has noted that several countries are complicit in all crimes perpetrated by the Israeli regime.

Shamkhani said in a post on his official X account on Monday that the resistance front and all those who desire freedom will carry out their responsibility to stop Israel’s extermination of the Palestinian people.

He added that the U.S. forbids other nations from aiding the helpless Gazans while it is giving Israel unparalleled financial, military, intelligence, and media assistance.

“Some governments may go along with this process, the result of which is the genocide of the Palestinian people, but the world’s freedom-seeking people and the resistance front will fulfill their duty,” Shamkhani, who is also a member of the Expediency Council, said.

Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups launched Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, a surprise attack into the occupied territories in response to the Israeli regime’s intensified and incessant crimes against the Palestinian people.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Sunday that Israel has committed a number of “criminal acts” in Gaza and the international community needs to respond “seriously” to such crimes.

He also described Hamas’s operation as a “turning point” in the Palestinians’ fight against the Israeli regime.

“The reaction of the Zionist regime to the glorious resistance of the Palestinian people is criminal action in such a way that it takes revenge on the defenseless people in the Gaza Strip,” he added.

Denouncing the West’s inaction towards the crimes of Israel, the spokesman said, “With the silence of the U.S. and its allies on what is happening to the Palestinian people, the mask was removed from the faces of the so-called human rights advocates.”

Kanaani also urged Muslim nations to stand with the Palestinians, pointing out that Palestinians are adamant in resisting the occupation regime.

“Islamic countries are obliged to support them,” Kanaani noted, adding, “Iran continues to support the resistance of the Palestinian people in the political field.”   

Speaking at a joint news conference with South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian denounced the Israeli strikes on Gaza as an act of war that the Tel Aviv regime is doing “on behalf of the United States”.

He said that the Zionist regime, working as a proxy for the U.S. in the region, has invaded the Gaza Strip and is murdering women and children while claiming that it is targeting Hamas.

The senior Iranian diplomat lamented the bitter reality that U.S. President Joe Biden, on his visit to Tel Aviv last week, expressed support for the Zionist regime, which is bombing hospitals, mosques, churches, and homes and killing women and children under the guise of combating Hamas.

Israel’s strikes have killed more than 5,000 Palestinians, mostly children and women. It has also cut off water, food, medicine, fuel, and other necessities to the coastal enclave of Gaza which houses about 2.3 million people.

Barack Obama, the former U.S. president, said Monday some of Israel’s decisions in its war against Hamas – including cutting off food and water for Gaza – could “harden Palestinian attitudes for generations”.