During a prayer ceremony on Tuesday marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on every Muslim around the world to arm Hamas in its fight in Gaza against Israel.

“[T]he Muslim World has a duty to arm the Palestinian nation by all means,” Khamenei said. In a reference to Israel, the ayatollah continued, “This rabid dog, this rapacious wolf, has attacked innocent people and humanity must show a reaction. This is genocide, a catastrophe of historical scale.”

Iran hates Israel and is a staunch supporter of Hamas. Over the years, Iran surpassed donor Arab nations like Saudi Arabia to become Hamas’s staunchest supporter, militarily and financially. However, that cash and arms flow dwindled under the strain of Iran’s economic sanctions and because of ideological differences with Hamas over the Syrian Civil War.

After firing almost 3,000 rockets into Israel in little over a month and losing some of its military hardware to Israeli counterstrikes, Hamas needs help replenishing its arsenal. But the European Union and the United States are calling for Hamas’s disarmament.

In its July 22 statement, the EU said it “strongly condemns the indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas and militant groups in the Gaza Strip, directly harming civilians. These are criminal and unjustifiable acts. The EU calls on Hamas to immediately put an end to these acts and to renounce violence. All terrorist groups in Gaza must disarm. The EU strongly condemns calls on the civilian population of Gaza to provide themselves as human shields.”

While more sympathetic toward the Palestinians, even to the point of “siding with Hamas,” as Caroline Glick astutely observed, the U.S. has also called for the disarmament of Hamas. “We also believe that any process to resolve the crisis in Gaza in a lasting and meaningful way must lead to the disarmament of Hamas and all terrorist groups,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.

Khamenei quickly jumped on these calls for Hamas to disarm as inhumane: “They [Israel] have been pounding innocent people day and night and these men, women and children are defending themselves with minimum means, and now Americans and Europeans want to take even that away … so that those merciless beasts could pound without qualm.”

Ayatollah Khamenei’s exhortation will resound with many observers, especially considering the global sympathy and support the Palestinians enjoy at the expense of the Jews. Trumpet executive editor Stephen Flurry discussed this extensively in his Trumpet Daily video below, “Why So Much Hatred for Jews?”

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian boasted about the Middle Eastern nations whose hatred and resistance movement against Israel is “at its strongest.” He declared, “We announce out loud that Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine are five influential countries in the resistance front even despite international and Zionist plots against this axis and front.”

A non-Middle Eastern nation that could be added to the list is North Korea, which is reportedly replenishing Hamas with weapons and communications equipment.

Watch for this crunch in Gaza to explode into an international crisis so dire that God Himself will intervene to bring permanent peace to the Middle East.