Will Iran support the intifada? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
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However, there have been signs recently that Hamas is attempting to repair relations with Iran. After it was confirmed that Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon, Ghazanfar Roknabadi, had died in the Mina stampede during the hajj in Saudi Arabia in September, a Hamas representative in Tehran, Khaled Ghadoumi, offered condolences on his “martyrdom.” His Nov. 29 letter read that Roknabadi was a “well-known and popular figure among the Palestinian resistance and Hamas.”
Ghadoumi had also met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Dec. 7, and said there was “a need to develop this relationship” between Iran and Hamas. Ghadoumi praised Iran for taking a “principled position” with respect to Palestine since the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Perhaps alluding to their differences in Syria, Ghadoumi said that this position is “not only a political position and it will not be influenced by side issues.”
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