Muslim-majority countries should impose an oil embargo on Israel, according to Iran’s clerical autocrat.

“Muslim governments must block the export of oil and other essentials to the Zionist regime,” Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote on social media. “They must block oil exports to the Zionist regime and stop economic cooperation with that regime.”

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Khamenei repeated the call for an oil embargo in a subsequent Spanish-language tweet on Wednesday afternoon. In parallel, three left-wing Latin American governments recalled their ambassadors to Israel after Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro invoked Adolf Hitler to condemn the Jewish democracy.

“We must demand, with one voice, an end to the genocide against the Palestinian people,” Maduro said Monday. "They want to exterminate the Palestinian people. It's the same extermination plan that Adolf Hitler carried out against the Jewish people, and it was condemned by all of humanity.”

Khamenei’s Spanish-language messaging isn’t a one-off for Tehran. The Iranian regime maintains a Spanish-language media outlet, the sister outlet of an Iranian outlet sanctioned by the United States.

“This is a story of consistency over time, not change over time, by the Iranian government,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow Behnam Ben Taleblu told the Washington Examiner. “It’s long looked to penetrate in the Western Hemisphere. It’s long looked to find third-world leftist, anti-American leaders to champion the Islamic Republic's ideology but in their own [ideological] language. ... This is an important snapshot of that.”

The war was ignited on Oct. 7 when Hamas terrorists launched a massive raid across southern Israel, an attack on civilians in which they killed 1,400 people and wounded more than 5,400 others.

“We must remove that country,” Hamas politburo member Ghazi Hamad told a Lebanese media outlet last week. “We will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight.”

In response, Israeli officials have launched an unprecedented campaign to destroy Hamas inside Gaza, a densely populated region where Hamas has held sway for years, building a massive tunnel network for their forces while using the civilian population above ground as human shields.

“Bolivia decided to break diplomatic relations with the State of Israel in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip,” Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani said Wednesday.

The war has provided an occasion for Iran and Turkey to make a show of their diplomatic cooperation in support of Hamas as well. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who was Turkey’s intelligence chief from 2010 to 2023, an era in which Hamas established headquarters in Istanbul, hosted his Iranian counterpart on Wednesday in Ankara.

“We continue working for first a ceasefire, then permanent peace,” Fidan said.

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The Iranians appear to be pursuing a multipronged diplomatic effort to alleviate pressure on Hamas, according to Ben Taleblu.

“The biggest picture takeaway is that the Islamic Republic also has a diplomatic strategy in place for after Oct. 7,” the FDD analyst said. “Iran is also looking to get more diplomatic support for the idea of a ceasefire because a ceasefire would essentially, politically, save one of its proxies that is militarily about about to be decimated by the IDF.”