Which coincidentally happens to be Iran’s official policy.

NEW YORK — Destroying the Islamic State will require Israel leaving Palestine, Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday.

Speaking before the United Nations Security Council at a meeting on the crisis in Iraq, Araghchi said that Israel’s actions in Gaza can “only be called genocide,” and said that such actions were a rallying cry for Islamic State.

The group’s demise must thus be tied to “an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab lands,” he said.

US Secretary of State John Kerry chaired the four-hour meeting, and was present for the Iranian minister’s comments.

Araghchi said that his government was in agreement with Western powers on the insidious nature of Islamic State, an extremist organization seeking a caliphate through Iraq and the Levant: “we couldn’t agree more that ISIL [Islamic State] is neither Islamic, nor a state,” he said.