Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today in a one-day official visit that has been postponed twice, a diplomatic source told AFP.
Raisi and Erdogan will meet in the capital Ankara for talks on the regional implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Raisi's previous visits - one in November and one earlier this month - were canceled due to rising tensions in the Middle East.
Iran's official news agency IRNA reported that Raisi will lead a "high-ranking political and economic delegation".
The visit comes amid growing concerns about the regional ramifications of the Gaza war, which Israel launched in retaliation for the unprecedented attacks launched by Hamas on October 7, which killed around 1,140 people in Israel, according to AFP, based on Israeli official data.
In response, Israel launched a relentless offensive that killed at least 25,490 people in Gaza, about 70% of them women, children, and adolescents.
On January 22, Raisi vowed that Israel "will certainly pay" for the killing in Syria of a senior general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
The United States and Britain have launched a second round of joint military strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen in retaliation for their repeated attacks on shipping in the Red Sea.
Erdogan condemned the first round of strikes earlier this month as "disproportionate", accusing Washington and London of trying to turn the Red Sea region into a "bloodbath".
Earlier, Erdogan and Raisi discussed by phone the steps for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, with Erdogan stressing the importance of "the Muslim world taking a common stand against Israeli atrocities"./BGNES
