TEHRAN, December 25 - Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions with his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s ‘capital’.
TEHRAN, December 25 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered to play tour guide to Christian pilgrims on Sunday in a message relayed from Jerusalem (al-Quds), whose recognition as Israel’s ‘capital’ by U.S. President Donald Trump has sparked global condemnations.
TEHRAN, December 24 - Israeli forces have once again clashed with Palestinians demonstrating against the new US policy on Jerusalem al-Quds in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
TEHRAN, December 23 - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the 35 countries, which abstained in the recent UN General Assembly Jerusalem vote, would have voted in favor of the resolution had they not been under pressure.
TEHRAN, December 22 - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak led thousands of Muslims in a rally Friday to show solidarity with Palestinians, slamming the US decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's ‘capital’.
TEHRAN, December 22 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his nation will “no longer accept” any initiative from the US as part of the so-called Middle East peace process, calling Washington a “dishonest mediator.”
TEHRAN, December 22 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif welcomed UN vote against US move on recognizing Jerusalem al-Quds as ‘capital’ of Israel.
TEHRAN, December 22 - Palestine's freedom from the clutches of Israeli occupation remains the Islamic world's highest priority, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says.
TEHRAN, December 21 - Iranian Ambassador to the UN Gholam-Ali Khoshroo said the US recent decision on recognizing Jerusalem al-Quds as ‘capital’ of Israeli regime shows that Washington pays no respect for legitimate rights of Palestinians.
TEHRAN, December 21 - Turkey told U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday he could not buy its support in a United Nations vote on Jerusalem, and said the world should teach the United States a “very good lesson” by resisting U.S. pressure.
TEHRAN, December 21 - A senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says UN members states will not be intimidated by the US threat to take action against the countries that vote against its policy shift on Jerusalem al-Quds in an upcoming General Assembly meeting.
TEHRAN, December 20 - An American academic and political commentator said the Zionist regime of Israel is colluding with the US and Saudi Arabia to form a new “strategic” coalition against the Palestinian nation.
TEHRAN, December 19 - The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman condemned the US government's veto in its proposed Egyptian resolution on Jerusalem, calling it an act contrary to international peace and security and trampling the rights of the Palestinian people.
TEHRAN, December 19 - The Palestinian Foreign Minister has called for an emergency United Nations General Assembly meeting after Washington vetoed a UNSC resolution aimed at annulling US President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital.
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TEHRAN, December 18 - US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital" is a "blatant violation" of the Palestinian people's rights, the Palestinian Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Member States (PUOICM) said.
TEHRAN, December 18 - The Palestinian leadership may turn to the U.N. General Assembly if Washington vetoes a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to reaffirm Jerusalem al-Quds’s status as unresolved, after US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize it as Israel’s ‘capital’.
TEHRAN, December 17 - A Palestinian activist who lost his legs in an air strike has been shot dead by Israeli troops as he protested against the US decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s ‘capital’.
TEHRAN, December 15 - Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem once the world recognizes an independent Palestinian state, the country's foreign minister has said.
TEHRAN, December 15 - European Union leaders have rejected a contentious US decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s “capital,” saying the 28-member bloc’s stance on the city remains “unchanged.”
TEHRAN, December 14 - The leader of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has strongly condemned the recent decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Israeli-occupied Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the Tel Aviv regime, stressing that the so-called ‘state of Israel’ does not exist and cannot have a capital of its own.