Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has spoken with European Council President Charles Michel about what the Iranian presidency describes as the “crisis caused by the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza and its terrorist actions across the region”, Al Jazeera reports.

“Implementation of double standards by the US and a number of Western countries leads to more insolence from the Zionist regime in committing terror and heinous crimes in Gaza and across the region, which has increasingly endangered regional and global piece and security,” he said, according to a readout.