The story: Iran’s supreme leader has renewed his call on Muslim countries to boycott Israel and sever any ties with Tel Aviv. In an apparent effort to persuade holdouts, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also suggested that a temporary cut in relations with Israel would be the “least” such states could do for the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister says the US has been informed that the Islamic Republic does not want the Hamas-Israel war to expand. At the same time, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned of a possible “new situation in the region” unless the bloodshed in Gaza ends. This comes as a senior Iranian diplomat alleges that...