Iranian, Saudi leaders discuss Palestine over phone

By Ahmet Dursun

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed the situation in Palestine in a phone call on Wednesday.

Mohammad Jamshidi, Deputy Head of the President's Office for Political Affairs, provided details of the conversation.

In their first-ever phone conversation following the resumption of ties between Tehran and Riyadh after a seven-year hiatus, Raisi and Salman spoke for 45 minutes on the latest developments in the Palestine-Israeli conflict and highlighted the need to stop war crimes from being committed by Israel against Palestinians.

During the call, the importance of unity in the Islamic world was underscored and criticism was directed towards the support provided by the US to Israel, which continues to launch heavy attacks on civilian settlements in Gaza.