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TEHRAN, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on Muslims worldwide to participate on Al-Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, scheduled for Friday, according to Tasnim news agency.
Al-Quds Day is an annual event which started in Iran in 1979.
It is observed on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Iran along with several Arab countries.
Rouhani called for demonstrations of "unity and solidarity" among Muslims worldwide in support of Palestinians and "the liberation of Al-Quds."
"We should neither forget the Zionist Israeli crimes nor let down the Palestinians, who have been displaced from their homes for almost 70 years now," Rouhani was quoted as saying.
On Thursday, Iran's senior cleric and former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, said that Muslims across the world will once more show the international community on Al-Quds Day that the Palestinian cause has not been forgotten, official IRNA news agency reported.
"If Muslims, instead of embarking on ethnic and religious conflicts and killing each other, supported the Palestinians, we would never be witnesses to the tragic conditions that the Palestinians are currently facing, and the Zionists would never commit their inhumane atrocities in the occupied territories, especially in Gaza," Rafsanjani was quoted as saying.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday also expressed hope that massive demonstrations would be held across Iran and the entire Muslim world on Friday in support of the Palestinian people, reported the semi-official Mehr news agency.
