An Iranian university professor has called on Muslim countries to sever ties with the Israeli regime stressing that the Islamic states should not sponsor the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

Elham Kadkhodaee, author and professor of international studies from Tehran, in an address to the 16^th webinar of al-Aqsa Storm held titled “Role of Women in Islamic Resistance and Palestine” by World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, called on the Islamic countries to do more than pro-Palestine rallies and petitions as the Israeli massacre of the Palestinian nation accelerated since October7, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA).
 
She condemned the US-backed Israeli genocide of the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza and said,” No Muslim country should be considering, let alone enforcing normalization with the Israeli regime.”
 
She urged the Muslim countries to cut off their trade ties and diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime and said,” Muslim countries should not be sponsors of ethnic cleansing in Palestine.”
The Iranian university professor added,” We should recognize and support the Palestinian rights to self-determination and self-defense.”
 
Elham Kadkhodaee called on the people in the region to enforce their agencies and stop Israeli aggression through any means necessary.
 
She made the remarks at the 16^th edition of the al-Aqsa Storm webinars as held by World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought was held on Wednesday as a number of female activists and thinkers expressed their views on the role of Palestinian women in more than seven decades of fight against occupation in the Palestinian lands.