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Iran’s foreign minister cancelled a visit with his Austrian counterpart to show displeasure that Chancellor Sebastian Kurz’s government had flown the Israeli flag in Vienna in a show of solidarity, the Austrian foreign ministry said on Saturday. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was supposed to meet Alexander Schallenberg but had called off the trip, a spokeswoman for Schallenberg said, confirming a report in newspaper Die Presse. “We regret this and take note of it, but for us it is as clear as day that when Hamas fires more than 2,000 rockets at civilian targets in Israel then we will...

(AFP) — The blue and white Israeli flag flew on official buildings in Austria on Friday in a sign of “solidarity” with the Jewish state, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said. “I condemn with the utmost firmness the attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip,” the conservative leader said a statement sent to AFP. “Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks. To show our solidarity … we have put up the Israeli flag,” on the chancellery and the foreign ministry, the statement added. “Nothing justifies the more than 1,000 rockets that Hamas and other terrorist groups have fired up...

UPDATED: Israeli Flag Flown on Slovenian Govt Building in Show of Solidarity, Against President's Wishes By STA, 14 May 2021, 17:55 PM Politics Updated at 19:50 with news of the President's disapproval, and gain at 20:30 with news of the protest STA, 14 May 2021 - An Israeli flag has been hoisted along the Slovenian and EU flags on the Slovenian government building as an expression of solidarity with Israel amidst an escalating conflict with armed Palestinian groups. "We condemn the terrorist attacks, and we stand by Israel," says a post on the government's official Twitter account, where photos of...