TEHRAN - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Muslim countries Friday that they had a duty to support Palestinians, in an implicit response to the decision by the United States and European Union to suspend aid to the Hamas-led government.
"The Islamic world cannot remain indifferent and silent to tyranny," the all-powerful cleric said at the start of a conference in Tehran on supporting the Palestinian people.
"Your martyrs are our martyrs. Your pain is our pain," he said of the Palestinians. "Islamic nations have the duty to help you in every possible way, and help you along this blessed path."
04/14/2006 14:16 GMT