Iran deplores the United Nations Security Council's sluggish support of the Palestinian people, the official IRNA agency said Saturday.
"While international public opinion is waiting for firm action on the Palestinian issue, any procrastination is an encouragement for the Zionist regime to continue its attacks," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said.
"If nothing is done at the international level to solve the Palestinian crisis, we will witness a human tragedy," he said.
Asefi also said he hoped "the Security Council would soon take a firm and concrete decision to restore the rights of the Palestinian people."
The Security Council met Friday to discuss the issue and decide whether to send observers to Israel, especially after a new upsurge in violence that day in which 10 people were killed.
The United States has said it will use its veto against any Security Council decision to send an international force as long as Israel rejects it.
Iran does not recognize the state of Israel and has welcomed the Palestinian uprising, which has seen 317 people killed, most of them Palestinians, in 10 weeks of violence.
Tehran broke off ties with Israel after the 1979 Islamic revolution and has repeatedly called for the Jewish state to be abolished. It wants all Palestinian refugees to have the right to return and a referendum to be held on the future of Palestine – TEHRAN (AFP)
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