The tone does not call for appeasement. On Saturday, at the emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) devoted to the war between Israel and Hamas, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Muslim countries to label the Israeli army a "terrorist organization" because of its armed operation in the Gaza Strip.
In his speech to Arab and Muslim leaders gathered in the Saudi capital, he also called on Muslim countries to prepare to "arm the Palestinians" if Israel's "war crimes" continue.
Hamas, which is backed by Iran, which considers it a "liberation movement," is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada and the European Union, among others.
Call for 'boycott' with Israel
"Now that international organizations have become useless, we must play a role," Ebrahim Raisi added, urging Muslim countries to "sever all political and economic relations" with Israel, which Iran does not recognize. He called for "a trade boycott against the Zionist regime, especially in the field of energy."
Ebrahim Raisi again accused the United States of being Israel's "main partner" in these crimes. "America actually entered the war directly by sending ships" to the eastern Mediterranean, he said.
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Five weeks after the start of the war sparked by the bloody attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, about 1,200 people have been killed on the Israeli side, according to the authorities, and more than 11,000 in Gaza, according to the Hamas government's Health Ministry.
Ebrahim Raisi's trip to Riyadh is his first visit to Saudi Arabia since the surprise announcement in March of the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two Middle East heavyweights after a seven-year breakup.