Iran Castigates India-Supports Kashmir Movement

Kashmir Media Watch Desk

Iran has come in open support of kashmir pro-independence struggle and has equated India to a Zionist regime. Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has asked the world’s Muslims to support the “struggle” in Kashmir against “Zionist regimes”.

In his Haj message to pilgrims earlier this week, Khamenei said, “Today the major duties of the elite of the Islamic Ummah is to provide help to the Palestinian nation and the besieged people of Gaza, to sympathize and provide assistance to the nations of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Kashmir, to engage in struggle and resistance against the aggressions of theUnited States and the Zionist regime, to safeguard the solidarity of Muslims and stop tainted hands and mercenary voices that try to damage this unity, to spread awakening and the sense of responsibility and commitment among Muslim youth throughout Islamic communities.” This is first such open and vehement cause to Kashmir’s pro-liberation movement.

In the 1990s, India had registered its gratitude to Iran for helping it out diplomatically on Kashmir on human rights.But off late when India-us relations have achieved new heights the differences with Iran are growing at a fast pace.