Tehran, August 8 (EFE) – Iran on Thursday called on the new head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas movement, Yahya Sinwar, to work to liberate the Palestinian territories “occupied by Israel” and establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
In a message, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani congratulated Sinwar, who succeeded Ismail Haniyeh as political leader of Hamas, who was assassinated on July 31 in Tehran in a short-range missile attack on his residence, which Iran attributed to Israel.
The top Iranian diplomat hoped to achieve political and field victories “to achieve the final victory in liberating the entire historical land of Palestine,” according to the Foreign Ministry.
Baqeri Kani called for “the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran does not recognize Israel as a state, and considers that it usurped Palestinian lands in order to establish it.
A day earlier, the commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major General Hossein Salami, expressed his country’s support for the new leader of Hamas in a statement.
Salami said: “Sinwar, with the support of the great Palestinian people and the backing of the Islamic nation (Islamic Republic of Iran), will continue the path of the martyrs and mujahideen and fulfill the promise of complete freedom for beloved Palestine.”
Iran has vowed to take revenge on Israel for Haniyeh’s killing while he was on an official visit to the Iranian capital.
Tehran leads the so-called “Axis of Resistance,” an informal anti-Israel alliance that, in addition to Hamas, includes Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthis, among others.
The Islamic Republic and Israel are sworn enemies, posing a mutual existential threat, competing for regional hegemony, and for decades maintaining a covert war of cyberattacks, assassinations, and sabotage. Evi
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