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Trump's Decision Shows US Officials' Obedience to Israel

TEHRAN (defapress)- A senior Iranian lawmaker blasted US President Donald Trump's decision to relocate Washington's embassy from Tel-Aviv to al-Quds (Jerusalem), and said that the American officials are serving the Israeli regime.

News ID: 67405

Date: 11 December 2017 - 14:25

"Trump's decision has shown that the US statesmen belong to the Zionist regime rather than being representatives of the American people," Rapporteur of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Seyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini said on Monday.

Naqavi Hosseini reiterated that the US decision is not only violating the interests of a specific country, but the entire world.

"The senior lawmaker said that moving the US embassy indicated that the American officials are serving the Zionists' interests instead of their own nation's," he added.

On Dec 6, 2017, Trump officially recognized al-Quds (Jerusalem) as Israel's capital, and said his administration would also begin a possibly years-long process of moving the American embassy in Tel Aviv to the holy city.

The US president last Wednesday defied global warnings, and said Washington formally recognizes Jerusalem al-Quds as the “capital” of Israel, and will begin the process of moving its embassy to the occupied city, breaking with decades of American policy despite widespread international opposition.

In anticipation of Trump's move, 151 members of the UN General Assembly voted last week to adopt a rare resolution that denounced Israel as the “occupying power” of Jerusalem al-Quds, a city that is holy to Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike.

The city has seen heightened tensions since 2015, when the Israeli military introduced restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque — Islam’s third holiest site.

Over 300 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli soldiers ever since.

Israel lays claim to the entirety of al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital while Palestinians want its Eastern part as the capital of a future state for themselves.

Palestinian leaders have warned that the potential relocation would fuel strong reaction in the region and deliver a death blow to any prospect of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Trump’s move which overturns decades of US foreign policy has triggered a fresh wave of unrest in the Middle East.