* "Benjamin Netanyahu started the fighting hoping it would help him win the elections"
* The ordinary Europeans are paying for the sanctions levied upon Iran
* His Excellency Dr. Bahador Aminian Jazi, the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Bucharest
Reporter: Your Excellency, how does Iran view the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas?
Dr. Bahador Aminian Jazi: First of all, I would like to express my regret for the fact that following the conflict in the Gaza Strip, over 160 Palestinians died, and at least 1,500 were hurt. Unfortunately, the international media did not have an appropriate reaction concerning this situation. There wasn't enough talk about these losses of human lives, which means that the press uses a double standard. The people who died in the Gaza Strip have the same rights as all the other people in the world, and because of that, we need to have an appropriate reaction. UNICEF announced that tens of children died, and several hundreds were wounded.
The lack of a reaction to the death of these people is a tragedy. In Europe in particular, people don't want to remember all the horrors that the Palestinian people went through, and this is a consequence of the behavior of the Western media.
As for the ceasefire agreement, I think that it represents a major victory for the Palestinians, and a major defeat for the Israeli expansionism.
Israel started a war against innocent people and I don't think it was expecting such a strong reaction. In the end, after eight days of continued pressure on the Palestinians, the Israelis were forced to accept the ceasefire.
It is a great achievement of the Palestinians, who need to be congratulated for their achievement.
Reporter: Israeli president, Shimon Peres, accused Iran of supporting the extremist factions in the Gaza Strip and of supplyi
