The President described efforts to strengthen relations with Muslim countries as well as creating synergy in Islamic societies as one of the priorities of his government's foreign policy and emphasised the need for the unity of the Islamic Ummah in confronting the Zionists' brutality and stopping the crimes of this regime in Gaza.
On Monday evening, Dr Masoud Pezeshkian met with Mr Naim Qassem, Deputy Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah, who has travelled to Tehran to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of the 14th term of the presidency of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Praising the resistance and steadfastness of the brave warriors of Hezbollah against the aggressions and crimes of the Zionist regime, the President described supporting the resistance front as a religious duty and one of the fundamental policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The President called the terrible crimes of the Zionist regime against the oppressed people of Gaza and the support of the United States and some western countries for these crimes as another dark spot on the record of self-proclaimed human rights advocates and added, "If Islamic countries and Muslim nations had maintained their unity and cohesion, and according to the advice and command of the Holy Prophet of Islam, they were a Single Hand, the Zionist regime and its supporters would never allow themselves to commit such crimes against the oppressed and Muslim nation of Palestine".
The President described efforts to strengthen relations with Muslim countries as well as creating synergy in Islamic societies as one of the priorities of his government's foreign policy and emphasised the need for the unity of the Islamic Ummah in confronting the Zionists' brutality and stopping the crimes of this regime in Gaza.
In this meeting, Sheikh Naim Qassem, Deputy Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah, while congratulating again on the election of Dr Pezeshkian as the President of Iran, described the President's response to the message of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah, as fatherly and brotherly and expressed hope that the Islamic Republic of Iran will be led to progress and success more than in the past relying on his personality and managerial abilities and characteristics.
He went on to state that Lebanon's Hezbollah considers itself a child of Imam Khomeini (RA) and the Islamic Revolution and will do its part to realise the valuable ideals of the Revolution, and explained the achievements and actions of Hezbollah's resistance in recent years.
He attributed the withdrawal of the Zionist regime from southern Lebanon, the numerous failures of this regime against the Palestinian Islamic resistance, as well as the defeat of the terrorist and takfiri group of ISIS in Syria, to the support of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the resistance front in the region and added, "Today, after the proud Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the Zionist regime has not achieved any of its goals despite inflicting a lot of damage and countless crimes in Gaza, and by the grace of God, with the continued standing and resistance of the Palestinian warriors and the zealous people of Gaza, another defeat will be achieved for this regime".