(MENAFN) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has urged the Muslim nations to cut their ties with Israel and end trade with the United States.
"I call on countries to totally cut their relations with the Zionist regime [Israel] and also to revise their trade and economic ties with America," Reuters quoted Ruhani.
Ruhani was attending the 67-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation Summit in Istanbul.
The call came in the light of the US embassy relocation from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Washington has also decided to abandon the Iran Nuclear Deal which has led to concerns in Iran and across Europe.
"Today, we are mourning the last act of the 70-year-old genocide against the innocent in Palestine. The criminal Zionists have challenged the global community before the tearful eyes of the world by trampling human dignity and belittling all values," Rouhani said in a speech at the summit.
"While hundreds of thousands of innocent people are deprived of the most basic human rights, the Zionist regime is falsely introducing its own apartheid and ethnocentric system as democracy, calling its religious extremism secularism; what is more unfortunate is that some Western countries are justifying the invasion of the occupiers."
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