SANAA: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh yesterday called on Muslim countries to allow their citizens to serve as volunteer fighters alongside Palestinians against Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, the state Saba news agency reported.
Saleh, who made the call during a meeting with an Iranian envoy in Sanaa, also called for a summit of leaders of Muslim countries to discuss the situation in Gaza, the agency said.
It said Iranian Housing Minister Mohammad Saeedi Kia handed to Saleh a message from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about coordination between their countries on the Gaza crisis. Saleh did not say whether he would allow volunteers from Yemen to join the war in Palestine.
In Iran, the head of the country’s powerful Guardian Council called for the shooting of the Israeli foreign minister. In a Friday sermon, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said he wanted someone to shoot Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and denounced President-elect Barack Obama’s search for a family pet.
“Every time the picture of this woman is shown, I really wish that somebody would expend a bullet on her,” he said according to a recording of the sermon obtained by The Associated Press.
Criticizing Obama during his sermon, Jannati said: “The world is on a slope of collapse. One is shocked when a president (Obama) sits, smiles and says ‘my concern is to find a dog for my daughter.’ Shame on you and those who voted for you!”
