According to the International Defense Press Group, Ismail Baqaei, spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, issued a statement on X, condemning remarks made by Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador in the occupied territories. Huckabee claimed that Israel has the right to seize Arab-Islamic land ‘from the Nile to the Euphrates.’

The Foreign Ministry spokesperson emphasized the statement released by the Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, asserting that the Islamic Republic of Iran stands in solidarity with the organization in denouncing these ‘extreme ideological rhetoric.’ Such statements embolden the occupying regime in its ongoing atrocities against Palestinians and its continuous aggressions against regional countries.Previously Mike Huckabee the U.S. ambassador in the occupied territories asserted that Israel has the right to dominate the area from the Euphrates River to the Nile River. This declaration has sparked widespread outrage and condemnation highlighting the tensions surrounding territorial claims and the plight of the Palestinian people.