Iran, other Muslim states slam US envoy’s endorsement of ‘Greater Israel’ plot
Iran, other Muslim states slam US envoy’s endorsement of ‘Greater Israel’ plot
M.U.H
22/02/202610
Iran, along with several Islamic and Arab countries and organizations, has condemned comments by the US ambassador to the occupied territories, who suggested Israel has a right to expand its occupation to much of West Asia.
The denunciations came after Mike Huckabee said during an interview released on Friday that it would be “fine” if Israel stole all of the land between the Nile River in Egypt and the Euphrates in Syria and Iraq.
“It would be fine if they took it all,” Huckabee said during the interview with journalist Tucker Carlson, when asked about the regime’s oft-repeated ambition to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates.
Huckabee referenced what he called the biblical “promised land” in trying to justify the regime’s expansionist ambitions. Carlson, however, described such contours as belonging to the descendants of the Prophet Abraham, including Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
When asked whether he approved of Tel Aviv’s takeover of the entire West Asia region, Huckabee replied, “They don’t want to take it over. They’re not asking to take it over,” adding, “If they end up getting attacked by all these places, and they win that war, and they take that land, OK, that’s a whole other discussion.”
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Huckabee’s remarks are “a bold testament to American active complicity in the Israeli regime’s expansionist wars of aggression as well as its colonial genocide of Palestinians.”
He also warned that the US envoy’s “extremist ideological rhetoric” would further embolden the usurping regime to “persist in its atrocity crimes and illegal measures against Palestinians as well as its constant aggression against the nations of the region.”
Similarly, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, together with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and the Arab League condemned the US diplomat’s “dangerous and inflammatory” comments.
In a joint statement, they said Huckabee’s remarks “constitute a flagrant violation of the principles of international law and the Charter of the United Nations, and pose a grave threat to the security and stability of the region.”
They further emphasized that “Israel has no sovereignty whatsoever over the Occupied Palestinian Territory or any other occupied Arab lands.”
Meanwhile, they warned that the continuation of Israel’s expansionist policies and unlawful measures will only “inflame violence and conflict” in the region and undermine the prospects for peace.
They also stressed their commitment to Palestinians’ inalienable right to self-determination and to the establishment of their independent state along the 1967 borders, as well as the end of the Israeli occupation of all Arab lands.
Earlier, several Arab states issued unilateral condemnations of the US ambassador’s words.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry decried Huckabee’s comments as “provocative and unacceptable,” saying they represent a direct call to “violate state sovereignty and provide support for ongoing occupation, ethnic cleansing, displacement, and expansionist plans” targeting the oppressed nation.
Saudi Arabia described the US envoy’s statements as “reckless” and “irresponsible,” while Kuwait called them a “flagrant violation” of international law.
Additionally, Jordan slammed the remarks as “an assault on the sovereignty of the countries of the region,” and Oman said they threatened the prospects of regional stability.
In November 2024, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced Huckabee as his pick for ambassador to the occupied lands, Huckabee said he supports Israel’s annexation of the occupied West Bank.
Back in 2008, he went so far as to question Palestinian identity altogether, claiming, “There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.”
