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Iran's Ahmadinejad says Obama regime 'hostile' to Gazans
AFP - Saturday, January 17
DOHA (AFP) - - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday accused the incoming government of US president-elect Barack Obama of hostility towards the people of Gaza, which is under Israeli attack.
"Many analysts believe that hostility towards people of Gaza is a completely American plan and that it is from the new US administration," Ahmadinejad told a summit in Doha, according to Iranian state television.
Obama will take office on January 20.
"What has been seen is that no changes have taken place, enmity has doubled and the new leaders are following the previous policies," Ahmadinejad said about Washington's new administration.
"The new US administration has made some comments about changing its stance on Palestine. These changes had better be to condemn the Zionist regime not supporting it," he added.
Ahmadinejad's new comments appear to differ from what he told a press conference in Tehran on Thursday.
"If changes are fundamental, genuine and based on respect... we wait and see and do not make premature judgement," he said when asked about Tehran's stance toward normalisation of ties with Washington.
Iran is a staunch supporter of the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, and does not recognise its archfoe Israel.
In part of his speech translated from Farsi into Arabic in Doha, Ahmadinejad demanded the prosecution of Israeli leaders by the International Court of Justice for "crimes" against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
He urged "punishing the criminal leaders of the Zionist entity," for the 21-day-old Israeli offensive on Gaza, which so far has killed more than 1,100 and wounded more than 5,000.
Ahmadinejad called on Arab and Muslim countries to "boycott all products of the Zionist entity" and on countries with ties to Israel "to cut them."
"This is the minimum for the solidarity with the Palestinian people and the resistance in Gaza," the Iranian leader said.
He also criticised a split in Islamic countries which has prevented them from taking a firm stance on the Israeli attack.
"The Zionist entity is using the rift in our Muslim world. I we had a united stance (it) would not have carried out this aggression," he said.
"We have to stand by the Palestinian people and the resistance. We have no doubt the resistance will be victorious eventually."
Iran had observer status at the summit, to which Qatar had invited all members of the Arab League. Only 13 of the 22 attended, with heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Egypt among those which stayed away.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was among the absentees though the Hamas movement, which controls Gaza after splitting with Abbas in 2007, was represented by its exiled political leader Khaled Meshaal.
The Iranian president's call for a boycott of Israel echoed requests from Meshaal and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to sever all ties with Israel.
Egypt, Jordan and Mauritania are the only Arab countries with diplomatic ties to Israel, while Qatar has trade ties with the Jewish state.
The meeting continued behind closed doors.
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