TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says Tehran has received a message from Washington in which they hypocritically said they were in favor of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

Commenting on the U.S. message to Iran, Amir Abdollahian said, “Since last week, America has been after a humanitarian ceasefire. We received their message. They are completely wrong.”

He added, “They manage the game of war against Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously. Stop hypocrisy and genocide against Gaza.”

The comments come amid a global outcry over Israel’s egregious disregard for international humanitarian law in its war against the Gaza Strip. So far, Israel has killed more than 10,000 Palestinians in the besieged strip, mostly women and children. 

Despite claiming that they are in favor of “humanitarian pauses,” the Biden administration continues to blindly support Israel’s mass killings of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. 

Amir Abdollahian said the White House preferred to be complicit in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. 

“More than 120 countries called for an end to the war. Millions of people took to the streets in cities around the globe, including Washington, in support of Palestine and to condemn ‘war crimes’. Yet, the White House prefers to be complicit and abet the collapsing regime of Israel at the expense of countering the global public opinion,” he said, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.

The Israeli aggression against the defenseless Palestinian people in Gaza took a dangerous turn earlier this week when an Israeli minister openly threatened to drop a nuclear bomb on the besieged enclave, which is one of the most densely populated areas of the world with a population of 2.3 million. 

Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu urged the Israeli government to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip. Speaking in an interview on Sunday, Eliyahu claimed that there were “no non-combatants” in the besieged strip and that using a nuclear bomb on the Palestinian enclave was one of the possibilities.”

Amir Abdollahian said the remarks are indicative of Israel’s failure. 

“Israel's regime minister's statement to use atomic bomb shows the real defeat of the regime against the resistance,” he said.

The Iranian foreign minister added, “The UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency must take immediate and uninterrupted action to disarm this barbaric and apartheid regime. Tomorrow is late. Full responsibility for this genocide lies with the White House.”