Addressing a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Pezeshkian condemned Netanyahu for his misleading statements, saying the Israeli prime minister should first take a look at the dire situation of Palestinians, especially children in Gaza, instead of falsely sympathizing with the Iranian people.

Condemning the ongoing genocide, he said that the horrible situation in Gaza is due to “the continuation and even intensification of the crimes by the child-killing Zionist regime and the deaths of children and defenseless people due to hunger resulting from the cruel siege.”

Those who, with a deceptive appearance, falsely claim compassion for the people of Iran, should first take a look at Gaza, where the people especially children, are struggling with death due to hunger and lack of access to clean water and medicine, the President underlined.

He added that the criminal regime wants all regional countries to be humble and humiliated, and has repeatedly attacked them, leaving behind a trail of death and destruction. “Claiming to be humane by such vile individuals is nothing but mockery and befooling the people.”

Pezeshkian also responded to Netanyahu's rhetoric in a post on his X network today, saying “a regime that deprived the people of Gaza of water and food wants to bring water to the people of Iran? What an illusion!”

In the cabinet meeting, Pezeshkian also received performance reports from different departments and agencies, including the Health Ministry that presented an assessment of the impact of sanctions on the mortality rate in the targeted countries.

Pezeshkian reiterated his call for heads of world powers, international agencies, as well as human rights groups to pay special attention to this alarming reports and realize that the deaths due to illegal sanctions have been far greater than the deaths occurred in the two world wars.