Iran’s Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Bagheri spoke on the phone with Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib on the Zionist regime’s aggressive and terrorist moves in the martyrdom of the leader of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement in Tehran and also the raid on the al-Tabin school in Gaza. Pointing to over ten months of crimes and genocide by the Zionist regime in Gaza, Bagheri said, “The Zionist regime has encroached upon the stability and security in West Asia by targeting a school in Gaza and martyring innocent people while they were worshiping in that place, attacking the residential areas in Beirut, and recently inhumanely assassinating martyr Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.” He stated the Islamic Republic of Iran will make the aggressions of the aggressor Israeli regime costly in a legitimate and firm action in line with defending its national security, territorial integrity and national sovereignty based on international law and procedures as well as the United Nations Charter. For her part, the Belgian foreign minister warned the developments in the Middle East have spiraled into a dangerous level. She said that Brussels is concerned about the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, adding that failing to control the situation in the region will lead to a full-scale war. Lahbib expressed support for the Palestinian people’s right to determine their own destiny and blasted the Zionist settlements. She said, “Belgium supports the Palestinian refugees’ rights and at the same time seeks to impose sanctions on the extremist Zionist settlers.” The top Belgian diplomat stressed an immediate ceasefire should be established in Gaza and called on all parties to exercise maximum restraint amid the deteriorating situation in the region. She also stressed that talks between Tehran and Brussels should continue.