On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani announced 4 reservations from Tehran regarding the final statement of the Arab-Islamic summit regarding the war in the Gaza Strip, despite his praise of the tone and phrases used in the Riyadh Declaration.

Iranian media quoted Kanaani as saying, “Despite the strong text, it includes a number of paragraphs that the Islamic Republic of Iran has previously always had reservations about.”

The official IRNA news agency stated that Iran will send a memorandum to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to include it in the final report, noting that Iran has “4 reservations.” Kanaani said in this regard: “We announced at the summit of senior officials that the Islamic Republic has reservations about the two-state solution, the 1967 borders, and the Arab Peace Initiative.”

Kanaani also expressed Tehran’s reservations regarding what was stated in the final statement about affirming that the Palestine Liberation Organization is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, and calling on the Palestinian factions and forces to unite under its umbrella, and for everyone to bear their responsibilities in light of a national partnership led by the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Kanaani said, “All Palestinians and Palestinian groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization, represent the Palestinian people and have the right to fight the occupier and achieve self-determination in accordance with international laws.”

Kanaani reviewed 10 proposals, which Tehran said were presented by the Iranian President in his speech before the Islamic-Arab Summit, and said, “Most of these proposals that the Islamic Republic presented during the negotiation of the document were included in the final decision.”

The Iranian government spokesman’s media website said that Kanaani’s position “came in response to allegations that Iran had no reservations regarding the final statement of the Riyadh summit,” without providing details.

Immediately upon his return from Riyadh to Tehran, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi raised Tehran’s reservations about the two-state solution. He said in press statements at Mehrabad Airport: “We are in this meeting, and contrary to what some say about the future of the Palestinian issue, within the framework of the two-state solution, we have proposed a democratic solution based on a return to the voices of all Palestinians, including Muslims, Christians, and Jews, to determine their fate.”

Iranian officials usually raise the idea of holding a comprehensive referendum in the historic Palestinian territories, without recognizing Israel, and say that it is “the Iranian guide’s proposal that Tehran sent to the United Nations.” Recently, Iranian officials repeated these allegations, despite international and regional silence.

Raisi said, “The passage of time does not give legitimacy to Israel and its right to ownership.” Pointing out that his participation in the Riyadh Summit was important in two ways: The first is that the meeting was held in the presence of all Islamic and Arab countries, and the second is that the topic of the summit was the world and all its peoples.

He continued: “One of the basic differences in our presence and speech, compared to other participants, was that America was considered the primary culprit in these crimes.”

For his part, Ali Shamkhani, political affairs advisor to Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei, said that “the statement of 57 Islamic and Arab countries at the Riyadh summit is a necessary condition for effective action against the increasing crimes of the Zionist entity,” but he considered that “insufficient.”