News - Middle East: The foreign ministers of Iran and Qatar discuss a range of bilateral and regional issues, particularly the ongoing Israeli-US genocidal war in Gaza, now in its 11th month.

Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is in Tehran on a key visit, met with Abbas Araqchi on Monday.

This is the first official trip to Tehran by the top Qatari official since the new Iranian administration took office in July.

Al Thani is also scheduled to meet with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

The visit comes as Iran has vowed to defend its absolute right to give a response to the Israeli regime’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, in Tehran.

Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31, while he was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Pezeshkian.

The top Qatari diplomat’s trip to Tehran is also taking place at a time that the latest round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has ended without a deal, and tensions have escalated between Israel and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.

During the meeting, Araqchi hailed Qatar’s positive attempts to stop Israel’s barbaric campaign in the besieged Gaza Strip.

    “The Islamic Republic of Iran welcomes Qatar’s efforts to swiftly stop the Zionists’ war and crimes against the oppressed Palestinian people and to establish ceasefire in Gaza.”

The Iranian minister also threw Tehran’s weight behind any ceasefire agreement which is also accepted by the Palestinian resistance groups, notably Hamas.

Pointing to the great capacities of Tehran and Doha in commercial and economic sectors, Araqchi expressed his country’s keenness to make a leap in relations through further coordination.

The Qatari foreign minister, for his part, briefed Araqchi on his country’s latest diplomatic measures to put an end to establish ceasefire in Gaza. Al Thani called for the continuation of bilateral consultations to help promote stability and security in the region.

Hezbollah on Sunday conducted a large drone and rocket attack "accurately and effectively" against Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah commander, in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh on July 30.

Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also called the retaliatory strikes “Arbaeen Operation.”

Source: Press TV