Tehran, 2007 Oct 5, Agencies

Millions of people across the world held rallies in support of the Palestinian people on Friday, which was International Qods Day.

In Iran, people turned out in great numbers across the country to show their solidarity with the oppressed Palestinian nation, whose homeland is being occupied by the Zionist regime, which is committing atrocities against them with the support of the major powers that hypocritically call themselves advocates of human rights.

In Tehran, the marchers chanted slogans against the Zionist regime and the United States as its main supporter.

At the end of the Tehran event, the demonstrators issued a statement saying that only a referendum can provide a solution to the problem and bring an end to six decades of violence in the occupied territories. 

They also said that the current peace conferences are only meant to deny the Palestinians their basic rights.

The founder of the Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini, named the last Friday of Ramadhan Qods Day. Mass protest rallies are held on this day to call for the liberation of Al-Qods from the Israeli occupation.

With issuance of a resolution the ralliers reiterated support for ideals of the Holy Qods, Intifada (uprising) and the oppressed Palestinian people.

"We regard an end to the power and domination of the usurpers and holding democratic elections in presence of all Palestinians inside and outside of the occupied lands including Muslims, Christians and Jews as the only way to put an end to the Middle East crisis," the resolution said.

It added that the International Qods Day, as heritage of the Father of the Islamic Revolution, the late Imam Khomeini, was held in the Year of National Unity and Islamic Solidarity under circumstances that outcry of support for the oppressed Palestinian people has prompted an increasing move of vigilance of the Islamic nation and resistance throughout the Islamic world.

The move disclosed failure of the global arrogance in establishing a so-called "New Middle East" or a Middle East demanded by America and the Zionist regime through Islamic resistance of Hezbollah.

The International Qods Day, the Day of vigilance of the Islamic nation, is held under circumstances that hostilities and complicated conspiracies of the arrogant system aimed at causing strife and discord in the Islamic world have been increased, it said.