Addressing a specialized session of an international conference on “Diplomacy and Resistance in the School of Lieutenant General Soleimani” on Monday, Jaberi-Ansari said existence was a natural and obvious right of the Palestinian people, which continued in various forms.
In the session dubbed “The Role of General Soleimani in Reconstituting the Regional Order,” the IRNA chief addressed some of the questions related to resistance such as: Has it weakened over the time? Or, Is Iran using it as a deterrent?
According him, resistance is “both a strategy and a discourse,” if it is analyzed comprehensively based on history, geography, and a set of facts after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and developments during the two World Wars, including the idea of political Zionism as the basis for a state-building by the West.
“Resistance, whether anti-Zionism, or anti-imperial and anti-colonial, was not created in a vacuum, but rather is the result of a historical reality,” he said, adding that resistance has appeared in more and more serious forms throughout its history.
Referring to Palestine, the CEO of IRNA emphasized that “resistance against the Zionist movement and against the occupation of a nation’s land was formed against the denial of the existence and the obvious and natural rights of this nation.”
Jaberi-Ansari continued citing the emergence of the Palestine Liberation Organization after the brutal invasion of 1982, saying the same Palestinian movement entered through another window, leading to the Islamic resistance movement, the First Intifada, and the Second Intifada.
Recalling October 7, 2023, he said the incident was “actually an earthquake” showing that the resistance was not over at all and even “after destroying 80 percent of Gaza, agreements are being made with the same resistance group that was supposed to be eliminated.”
According to him, contrary to what the Israelis say and the narratives the mainstream international media is trying to create, the resistance is not over because the occupation exists and “as long as there is the denial of rights of the Palestinian people, the resistance will continue in various forms.”
In response to the question whether the resistance was a deterrent for Iran, he said that the Islamic Republic never used it as a tool or lever, but “resistance prevented the collapse of several governments in the region,” after some movements in the name of Islam such as, Daesh, practically tasked with destroying and eliminating the governments and countries of the region.
“Within this framework, Israel is trying to impose conditions, in which, the long-term strategy of attrition, which resistance has shown in the past few decades, in preventing the wave of hegemony, and expansionism of the regime.”
He concluded by saying that Israel is today facing a serious test and challenge in the face of these realities; but we must also move at the same level, and take the necessary measures to properly manage the new conditions and progress towards the interests of the nation.
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