{"id":603,"date":"2026-05-16T05:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=603"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:42:36","slug":"surrender-not-an-option-for-palestine-iranian-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Surrender not an option\u2019 for Palestine \u2013 Iranian envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations has urged the world to do more to counter Israel\u2019s \u201cexpansionist\u201d policies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"65\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"7\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"557\" data-end=\"775\">The international community must take a more active approach to the plight of displaced Palestinians and the Israeli occupation of their land, Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeid Iravani said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"777\" data-end=\"1110\">Iravani made the appeal on the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, a term used in the Arab and Muslim world to describe the flight and expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Today, around six million Palestinians are registered with the UN refugee agency UNRWA, many of them living in refugee camps.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1112\" data-end=\"1496\">There is an <em>\u201curgent necessity for international mobilization to confront the root causes of this situation,\u201d<\/em> Iravani said, calling for resistance to Israeli occupation and <em>\u201cexpansionist policies.\u201d<\/em> Support for Palestine <em>\u201cmust not remain limited merely to expressions of sympathy,\u201d<\/em> he added, arguing that the world must abandon <em>\u201capproaches that have failed to achieve peace or justice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.05\/thumbnail\/6a06d7512030272e437c52ba.png\" alt=\"RT\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/640018-palestinians-nakba-rt\/\">Israeli West Bank occupation an affront to Nakba Day legacy (RT reports)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"1498\" data-end=\"1784\"><em>\u201cSurrender is not an option. History will remember kindly those who resisted oppression and defended freedom and the right to self-determination, and it will pass judgment on those who, through silence or indifference, paved the way for injustice,\u201d<\/em> the diplomat said, according to ISNA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1786\" data-end=\"1966\">The situation has been further exacerbated by Israel\u2019s war in Gaza, with the UN saying that the majority of the enclave\u2019s pre-conflict population of 2.1 million has been displaced.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1968\" data-end=\"2151\">Israeli officials have increasingly rejected calls for a two-state solution, arguing that the establishment of a fully independent Palestinian state would threaten Israel\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2153\" data-end=\"2338\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em>\u201cThere will not be a Palestinian state. It\u2019s very simple: it will not be established,\u201d<\/em> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in November 2025, according to the Times of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations has urged the world to do more to counter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}