Senior Hamas delegation in Tehran

A senior delegation of the Hamas Movement arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran at dawn Monday on a few days official visit. The PIC reporter said that the delegation is led by political bureau member Mohammed Nasr and comprises Maher Obaid, Jamal Issa, Osama Hamdan, and Khaled Qaddoumi, the Hamas representative in Tehran. He said that the delegates would confer with a number of Iranian officials on Palestinian cause developments.

Amir Moussawi, the director of the center for strategic studies in Tehran, said that the visit, which he described as important, would turn a new page in the relations between Iran and Hamas.

He told Resala.net website that the visit would pave the way for a visit by Khaled Mishaal, the top leader of Hamas, to Iran. Moussawi said that the visit reflected the Iranian leadership’s belief in the importance of Hamas’s role. He expected that Mishaal, during his upcoming visit, would meet president Hassan Rouhani and the Leader of Islamic Ummah and Oppressed People Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei among other officials.