Iran Blasts US Double-Standard Approach to Palestine

Rasa - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted the US administration for its double-standards vis-à-vis the Palestinian nation.

News ID: 439469

Date: 10 September 2018 - 12:50

RNA - "Trump regime flip-flops are truly comical; one week, its talking point is that we are "squandering" our resources abroad, the next week it’s that we’ve not financially supported the Palestinians enough," Zarif wrote on his Twitter account on Saturday.

According to Fars News Agency, Zarif's remarks came as the US Department of Sate announced earlier that it will cut over $200 million in aid to the Palestinians.

"We have undertaken a review of the US assistance to the Palestinian Authority and in the West Bank and Gaza to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with US national interests and provide value to the US taxpayer,” the statement read.

Earlier the United States Department of State blocking 65 million dollars of the $125m humanitarian aid to Palestinians refugees announced that giving more aid depends on fundamental modifications by United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

Meanwhile senior member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Hannan Ashrawi in a separate statement slammed US act, and said, "The US administration is demonstrating the use of cheap blackmail as a political tool. The Palestinian people and leadership will not be intimidated and will not succumb to coercion. The rights of the Palestinian people are not for sale."

"There is no glory in constantly bullying and punishing a people under occupation. The US administration has already demonstrated meanness of spirit in its collusion with the Israeli occupation and its theft of land and resources….now it is exercising economic meanness by punishing the Palestinian victims of this occupation," she added.

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