Senior Hamas Member Says Relations with Iran ‘Strategic’
January, 20, 2018 - 13:42
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2018/01/20/1632640/senior-hamas-member-says-relations-with-iran-strategic

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior member of the Palestinian resistance movement
Hamas said Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh’s letter to
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei proves that
the resistance movement in the Gaza Strip has strategic ties with Iran.

“This Letter is indicative of Hamas’ strategic relations with the Islamic
Republic of Iran,” Ismail Rizwan told Tasnim.

“This Letter will (further) strengthen the relations,” he added.

In the letter, Haniyeh praised Iran’s role in supporting the resistance on
behalf of Hamas and the Palestinian people, Rizwan added.

Elsewhere, commenting on Palestinians’ roadmap to countering the United
States’ decision to recognize Jerusalem (al-Quds) as capital of Israel, he
said it should be based on boosting resistance and defending Quds.

The Hamas official urged unity among all the Palestinian groups and ending
security cooperation with the Zionist regime.

In his letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, the chairman of Hamas Political Bureau
praised the Iranian nation and leadership for supporting Palestine and the
anti-Israeli axis of resistance.

Haniyeh pointed to a major plot that the arrogant powers have hatched
against Quds and the Palestinian nation with the purpose of wiping out the
Gaza Strip as the bastion of resistance, ending the fight against the
Zionist regime, and normalizing the relations between Israel and the
dependent rulers of regional countries.

He also praised the popular Intifada (uprising) in the West Bank and the
city Quds as a phenomenon foiling the plots by the US and the “rulers of
hypocrisy” who seek to terminate the issue of Palestine.

Hailing Iran as a stable and resisting nation that has stood against
arrogance, Haniyeh expressed gratitude to Imam Khamenei and the Iranian
nation for providing the popular Palestinian resistance movement with
various kinds of support.

Denouncing the blockade of Gaza and the economic and medical embargo on
Palestinian people in the coastal enclave with the aim of creating a
humanitarian crisis and undermining the main bastion of resistance, Haniyeh
said Washington is trying to put an end to the Palestinian fight against the
Israeli regime.

In that case, he added, the rulers impatient to appease the US and Israel
could normalize and make public their ties with the Zionist regime, and then
the hostile ploys could be targeted on Iran.

Haniyeh also highlighted the significant role of Ayatollah Khamenei in
leading the efforts to counter a project on termination of the Palestinian
issue.

Iran, under expert guidance of Ayatollah Khamenei, has played and keeps
playing a major role in strengthening the Palestinian resistance, he added.

The Hamas official finally refereed to the massive Intifada in the West Bank
and Quds as the practical approach to thwarting the new plot against
Palestine in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s move to harm the
religious nature of Palestine by recognizing Quds as the capital of the
Israeli regime.