TEHRAN – The mayor of Rimini, Jamil Sadegholvaad, said on Wednesday that Israel’s participation in the Rimini tourism fair was “inappropriate” given the war in Gaza.

Sadegholvaad, together with the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Michele De Pascale, said in a joint statement they had written to Maurizio Ermeti, president of the Italian Exhibition Group (IEG), asking the organizer to reconsider Israel’s stand at the TTG Travel Experience scheduled for Oct. 8-10.

The dramatic developments affecting Gaza now make it necessary to reconsider its presence, Sadegholvaad said, La Presse reported on Thursday.

He added that it was “not ethically and morally acceptable” to promote as vacation destinations “places of war, terror, and death.”

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