INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Tuesday that Israel and the United States will never be able to wipe out Hamas and
that Israel could only secure the release of hostages held in Gaza with a political solution to the conflict.In a speech at the United
Nations in Geneva in which he described Hamas as a freedom movement, Amirabdollahian said: &Israel and the United States will never be able
to eliminate Hamas.&He added that Israel, which has vowed to wipe out Tehran-backed Hamas, could only achieve the return of hostages taken
by Hamas during a deadly rampage on Oct
7 by a political solution, Reuters reported.Amirabdollahian was speaking at a meeting alongside counterparts from other Middle Eastern
countries.&All the ministers agree that the strikes by the criminal Israeli regime and the genocide it is committing has to stop
immediately,& Amirabdollahian said following the meeting.&The Rafah border crossing has to be open, humanitarian aid has to reach every part
of Gaza and the forced displacement of the people of Gaza must stop,& he added, referring to the crossing into Egypt used to bring
humanitarian aid into the enclave.Israel mounted its assault on Gaza in response to a cross-border raid by Hamas fighters in which they
killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostage in southern Israel on Oct
More than 100 hostages were freed during a short-lived truce last month.Israel&s assault on Gaza to root out Hamas has killed at least
18,205 Palestinians and wounded nearly 50,000 since Oct
7, according to the Gaza health ministry.Iran&s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appealed last month to Muslim states with political
ties with Israel to at least cut them for &a limited time&
He had previously called for an Islamic oil and food embargo on Israel.The post Iranian foreign minister says Israel, US cannot wipe out
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