TEHRAN, April 13 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi urged oil producers who declined to join an export embargo against Israel to donate one month’s oil revenue to the Palestinians, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.

"I proposed that producing countries not wishing to take part in the collective decision to halt their exports, at least donate one month of their revenue (to the Palestinians)," Kharazi said shortly after returning from a visit to Lebanon and Syria.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last week urged Islamic oil-producing countries to suspend crude exports to countries that have relations with Israel for a month to protest at the bloody Israeli military offensive against the Palestinians.

Iran itself has not halted its exports and so far only Iraq has heeded the embargo call.

On his two-day trip to Damascus and Beirut, Kharazi said Lebanon and Syria were in favor of "severing all ties with Israel".

During his meetings with Syrian and Lebanese officials, he called for restraint on the Israeli-Lebanese border, where there have been daily clashes between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Resistance Group Hezbollah since Israel launched its crackdown in the West Bank on March 29.

“It is likely Israel is attempting to extend the tension to other countries to diminish international pressure," he warned on Saturday.

Kharazi warned: "Given the failure of the Zionist regime in reigning in the Palestinian people, it is feared that Israel may spread the war to other countries," he said, citing the racist regime's "provocative movements" in attacking southern Lebanon in recent days as evidence for his theory, IRNA reported. 

"There is need for care and self-restraint in order to prevent the Zionist regime from causing intrigue in the region," Kharazi told reporters upon arrival in Beirut.

"Because of our worries about the Middle East issue and in line with consultations with our friends, I made the trip to examine the regional situation carefully," he said. 

The Iranian foreign minister said the popular resistance in the occupied lands had still to continue and the world must pressure the United States to give up its support for the Zionist regime. 

"First of all, the resistance should continue and then the necessary pressure must be exerted on America to change its policies. As long as the U.S. supports the occupying regime of Jerusalem 
this regime will have no qualms in continuing its policy of murder," Kharrazi said.

He rejected alleged Iranian role in cross-border exchange of fire between Hizbollah and Israeli occupation troops in the Shebaa Farms. 

"These issues are related to the region and have no links to Iran. It is natural for the regional people to stand up against Israeli incursions and this is their legitimate right," Kharazi said. 

In another development, Palestine Liberation Organization political chief Faruq Qaddumi met with Kharazi Saturday in Tehran, where both men called for the Palestinian armed struggle against Israeli occupation to continue.

”We need to resist and continue the struggle and the jihad (holy war)," he said as he arrived in Tehran.

Qaddumi called for "international forces in the occupied territories in order to oust Israeli forces and proclaim a Palestinian state."

He later met with Kharazi, and both men called for the 18-month-old intifada to continue, state radio reported.

Kharazi said "resistance is the only way for the Palestinians to defeat" Israel.

Qaddumi was also expected to hold talks with President Mohammad Khatami.