As part of a joint delegation of several grassroots organizations in Brussels, Belgium, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network participated in a joint meeting with the Iranian Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg, Mr. Seyyed Mohammad Ali Robatjazi.
The delegation included representatives from the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil), the Samidoun Network in Brussels, Bruxelles Pantheres, Tayyar and Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine.
During the meeting, Comrade Mohammed Khatib, a member of the Executive Committee of the Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement and coordinator of the Samidoun Network in Europe, conveyed the delegation’s greetings and congratulations to the Islamic Republic of Iran for its steadfastness and victories in the face of aggression. He emphasized the importance of Iran’s role in supporting the Palestinian and Arab resistance forces—particularly the resistance in the Gaza Strip—amid the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Zionist enemy.
The delegation also expressed its full solidarity with the Iranian people and their revolutionary leadership, and firmly rejected any American or Zionist aggression targeting Iran or any of the forces of the Axis of Resistance.
The delegation handed the ambassador a joint statement issued by the four organizations, expressing clear support for Iran’s position and calling for the removal of U.S. military bases from the region—including the Zionist entity, which the statement described as “the largest aggressive U.S. military base in West Asia.”
For his part, the Iranian ambassador welcomed the members of the delegation and reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s unwavering position in supporting the Palestinian people and their resistance until the full liberation of their national land. He stressed the importance of strengthening relations between the peoples of the region and the free people of the world in confronting hegemony and colonialism.
The delegation also discussed with the Iranian ambassador ways to enhance the role of solidarity forces with the Palestinian people, confront racism and fascism, and address the challenges facing Palestinian refugees and migrant communities more broadly in Europe.
Read the text of the statement:
Dear Your Excellency, Mr Seyed Mohammad Ali Robatjazi, Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Belgium and Luxembourg; and Head of Mission to the EU;
The Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, congratulates the Islamic Republic of Iran on its tremendous achievements in confronting Zionist and U.S. aggression, and expresses its strongest solidarity with the courageous, steadfast and victorious leadership, armed forces and people of Iran, who have consistently demonstrated their strong, clear position in support of the Palestinian people and their ongoing liberation struggle, including the urgent efforts to bring the ongoing Zionist genocide in the Gaza Strip to an end.
The momentous victory achieved by the Islamic Republic of Iran not only exposed the illusory “superiority” of the Zionist and imperialist war machine but made clear that the Zionist regime, and indeed the U.S., will no longer be able to impose their hegemony upon the region unchallenged, establishing new rules of engagement that have shattered the logics of terror imposed by the enemy. The precise and qualitative responses carried out by Iran’s armed forces reverberated throughout the region and the world, making clear that the Zionist regime has been utterly unable to ensure security for its settlers through genocide and aggression.
We salute all of the martyrs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, including military and political leaders, scholars and scientists, soldiers, journalists, athletes, men, women, children and elders, and we wish for speedy recovery for all of the wounded. Throughout this battle, and indeed for the past 46 years, the people of Iran have made clear that the U.S.-Zionist scheme to break the unity of Iran and impose “regime change” would fall into defeat.
The U.S.-Zionist war on the Islamic Republic of Iran did not begin on the 13th of June, but has persisted for decades, including through the imposition of illegal and unilateral economic coercive measures that are meant to use enforced poverty, destruction and extraction of resources to deny the people of Iran their sovereignty, their right to determine their own path of development, and even their lives. In Iran’s great battle of self-defense against aggression, it has set a firm line in defense of its own sovereignty and, indeed, of all peoples of the region against U.S. imperialism and Zionist occupation and colonization.
Since Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October 2023 and the beginning of the escalated Zionist genocide in Gaza – amid 77 years of ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people as a whole – it is clear that the world has been changed irreversibly through the heroism and commitment of the great Palestinian freedom fighters and their partners in the camp of resistance, in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran – and indeed, the world continues to change. The Zionist entity is exposed before the world as a criminal regime that is actively engaged in the greatest crime in international law: genocide. Today, as the Zionist regime daily slaughters dozens of Palestinians – most frequently, while attempting to receive food aid amid ongoing famine – the heroic Palestinian resistance continues to carry out significant operations that are imposing a significant price on the genocidal enemy.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a principled and dignified position that stands as one of the very few nations of the world that have acted directly and clearly to impose international law according to the Genocide Convention, at a time when not only the United States and the Zionist regime, but also Britain, Canada and the European powers continue to provide ongoing support and cover, up to and including the sale and purchase of weaponry, provision of intelligence data, ongoing technological and research collaboration, and even the suppression of domestic movements and activists organizing in defense of Palestine.
The alliance between the Palestinian people and national liberation movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the alliance of the camp of resistance, which stretches to Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and indeed all of those around the world who participate in resisting U.S. imperialism and Zionist genocide, has only been strengthened over the past 21 months of unceasing struggle against a horrific and genocidal enemy. We are certain that, together, we are on the path of the liberation of Palestine.
The Masar Badil Movement is launching a new campaign to demand that all U.S. military bases must be removed, once and for all, from the Arab and Iranian region – including the largest U.S. military base, the Zionist entity itself. These bases are a threat to the security, sovereignty and peace of all of our peoples of our region and serve as centers of aggression and espionage against the resistance forces in order to protect the Zionist regime and impose U.S. hegemony over all of West Asia. We salute the Islamic Republic of Iran’s clear position and meaningful action to confront these bases of destruction imposed upon our land.
We not only express the position of our Movement internationally but also look forward to cooperating with you locally in events and activities in defense of the rights, sovereignty and self-determination of our nations and peoples confronting Zionism and imperialism.
Our salutes and solidarity,
Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (Samidoun Brussels)
Bruxelles Pantheres
Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
Tayyar
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