Israel and the United States they will never succeed in eliminating Hamas and the Israel could secure the release of hostages from the Gaza Strip only through a political solution to the conflict, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said today.

In his speech at the headquarters of United Nations in Genevain which he called Hamas a “liberation movement”, Amirabdollahian said: “Israel and the US will never be able to destroy Hamas.”

THE Iranian minister he added that Israel cannot release by war the hostages seized by Hamas in its October 7 attack. Only with a political solution could such a thing be achieved, he stressed.

These statements were made in a meeting of Amirabdolakhian with his counterparts from other countries Middle East.

Last month Iran’s supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Muslim countries that maintain ties with Israel to sever them, even for a “limited period of time”. He had previously called for Israel to embargo food and oil sales from Islamic countries.