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Iran attacks Israeli claims
Iran’s Foreign Ministry condemned remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming permanent sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights and rejecting an independent Palestinian state, calling the statements colonial ambitions that cannot alter legal and historical realities.
“The Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned recent remarks by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”
In the ministry’s statement, Tehran said Israeli rulers have no legitimacy to comment on Palestinian statehood and emphasized that Palestine belongs to the Palestinian people, adding that “racist fantasies” cannot erase that truth.
The Foreign Ministry also rejected Colombia’s recent move to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan, describing it as a violation of the UN Charter and international law regarding respect for the territorial integrity of countries.
Iran framed the issue of Palestine as the central moral and humanitarian issue of the modern world, saying the creation of a “fabricated entity” in 1948 destabilized the entire region.
The ministry stressed that the UN Security Council is responsible to stop Israel’s ongoing aggression against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and other regional states.
Diplomatic backlash widens
Iran’s condemnation of Israeli claims over the Golan Heights and rejection of an independent Palestinian state drew broader international pushback in the same dispute over sovereignty and recognition.
Somalia condemned Colombia’s recognition of Israel’s claim to sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, saying the move violates international law and the United Nations Charter and that the Golan Heights remains occupied Syrian territory.
In Mogadishu, Somalia’s foreign ministry said any recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the area is “null and void,” and called on states including Colombia to uphold international law and reject recognition of occupied territory.
The dispute also reached Europe and the Gulf, with the EU and Gulf states rejecting Colombia’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and reaffirming that Israel’s occupation does not change the territory’s legal status.
The EU said its position is based on international law and UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 497, which it said reject the acquisition of territory through force and declare Israel’s imposition of laws, jurisdiction and administration legally invalid.
Executions condemned, Iran responds
While Iran’s foreign ministry attacked Israeli and Colombian positions on the Golan Heights and Palestinian statehood, France and a group of countries also condemned Iran’s domestic use of the death penalty.
“condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Iran’s continued executions of protesters”
France and 25 other countries, along with the European Union’s foreign policy chief, condemned “in the strongest possible terms” Iran’s continued executions of protesters and its use of the death penalty.
The statement said “The use of capital punishment to silence dissidents, intimidate communities and punish individuals for exercising their fundamental rights can never be justified,” and called on Iran to immediately end executions and release those arbitrarily detained.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded by accusing the countries of hypocrisy, saying on X: “Countries like France should stop lecturing the world about ‘human rights’ and international law.”
Araghchi added that “Your backing of Israel’s genocide in Gaza — and aggression against Iran — has destroyed whatever moral high ground you imagined you had,” linking the condemnation to Israel-related actions and Iran’s own grievances.
