Friday Prayer Leader of Bijar in Interview with Taghrib News:
Iran’s Isolation Policy Has Failed – Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Persists After Ceasefire
He emphasized that opposition from non-Western powers such as Russia and China has undermined the legitimacy of the snapback mechanism and created serious obstacles to the full implementation of sanctions.
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Strategic Isolation Thwarted
Khorshidi explained that the primary goal of the United States and the European Troika (UK, France, and Germany) was to maximize Iran’s diplomatic and economic isolation. However, he asserted that this strategy has already failed, and Iran can leverage geopolitical opportunities to shift the balance in its favor. He cited Iran’s growing ties with China and Russia through economic agreements and military cooperation as clear examples of this failure.
He added that intensifying competition between Washington and the Beijing–Moscow axis has created new openings for Iran to strengthen its position. In the long term, Iran’s strategic location in key regional waterways and its active role in non-Western alliances such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS could elevate it to a central player in a multipolar global order. Ongoing Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
In another part of the interview, Khorshidi addressed the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza following the ceasefire. He reported that over 53% of Gaza’s territory remains under Israeli occupation, with key border crossings and agricultural zones fully controlled by Israeli forces. Military presence inside Gaza continues, and sporadic airstrikes, artillery fire, and drone attacks have severely disrupted civilian life.
He noted that although the ceasefire agreement stipulated the daily entry of 600 humanitarian aid trucks, only about 170 trucks per day have entered Gaza—less than one-third of the actual need. Since the ceasefire began, approximately 4,453 trucks have entered, while over 11,000 remain stalled at the borders of Egypt and Jordan awaiting clearance.
Khorshidi described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “a full-scale catastrophe,” citing the blockade, shortage of essential aid, collapse of the healthcare system, and the suffering of orphans as indicators of the crisis’s depth. He called for urgent and decisive action from the international community.
