Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman voiced pleasure Wednesday with the European Union’s newest sanctions against Iran and said that this is the first time that determined and meaningful steps have been taken against Iran. These steps, he said, will be felt in Iran.

Lieberman was speaking to Catherine Ashton, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who is in Jerusalem. The meeting between the two was devoted to the decision by EU Foreign Ministers to slap sanctions on Iranian oil imports and on the talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Lieberman told Ashton that the EU should pay attention to the growing Iranian involvement in Iraq, and to Iran’s part in shoring up Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria.

He also discussed the incitement by the PA mufti, who has openly advocated for the killing of Jews. In a recent sermon broadcast on PA television, the mufti said that “the Hour [of Resurrection] will not come until you fight the Jews. The Jew will hide behind stones or trees. Then the stones or trees will call: ‘Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’”

“The EU must denounce the continued incitement by senior officials in the PA against Israel and the Jews,” Lieberman said, “and the silence of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who did not denounce the statements and is even taking part in the incitement, in encouraging and glorifying terrorists.”