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    Hamas leader visits Iran after outreach to Gulf

    TEHRAN (AP) — An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the Hamas prime minister of Gaza has arrived in Tehran. The visit may be an attempt by the Palestinian militant movement to avoid snubbing Iran even as it cultivates ties with the wealthy Gulf.

    The Friday report by Fars says Ismail Haniyeh will meet Iranian leaders, despite what the agency claimed were efforts by Gulf countries like Qatar and Kuwait to stop the visit.

    Some in Hamas want to be part of the broader Islamist political rise triggered by last year's Arab Spring uprisings. For this, Hamas needs new friends among Gulf states at odds with Iran.

    But others in the movement may wish to maintain the relationship with Tehran, which helped Hamas when it had few friends in the Arab world.

     

    45 comments

    • momarchist  •  3 mths ago
      What other friends do they have?
    • Jeffrey  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      @ fake "Native" if you love iran soooooo much then why not live there? please go live there, enjoy yourself, enjoy exercising your freedom of speech there.
    • Clown  •  3 mths ago
      Wasn't he supposed to be at the UN talking about possible statehood? How is the UN supposed to make an informed decision about statehood without hearing from all the Pal's leaders?
    • snewsh  •  San Diego, California  •  3 mths ago
      they still need their money to bomb israeli schools. dont want to snub your funders.
      • Native 3 mths ago
        Are you an idiot or does your religion make you this way. Israel has destroyed more schools than Hamas has.
      • snewsh 3 mths ago
        only because hamas has continually suicide bomber israel busses. maby if hamas left israel alone they could actually become a state.
      • Denver Businessman 3 mths ago
        Hey kemosabe/native... you are a complete and utter #$%$ I guess the genocide didn't take out your illiterate gene pool.
    • me  •  3 mths ago
      Sounds like re arranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic.
    • Jim  •  San Diego, California  •  3 mths ago
      I wonder if Hamas and Hezbollah realize that when Iran gets nukes, it will eventually use them on Israel...and, they will be killed, too; without Iran giving their lives a second thought...except as martyrs of the jihad.
      • Jeffrey 3 mths ago
        jim, hamas, hezbulah, fatah, they would all love to die in an iranian nuclear explosion over israel. yes, they are that sick.
      • Mark 3 mths ago
        Nope they aren't, they just haven't stopped long enough to figure out the end game. Iran mullahs could give a spit for either the Israelis or the Palestinians as long as what is left at the end to the day is an Iranian Empire stretching to the Med and Mecca. I suspect that Khameni, like many Christian counterparts, believes that his success is preordained in an Armageddon and the next coming to the missing Imam.
    • Chloe  •  3 mths ago
      dumb and dumber
    • uhwhat  •  3 mths ago
      Hamas wants more money. The Iranian rial just doesn't buy all the weapons it did before. I just hope that Ismail Haniyeh is still in town when the bombs begin to fall. The world won't miss that psychotic murderer.
      • Mark 3 mths ago
        I suspect that the Iranians gave Hamas an ultimatum after Hamas pulled out of Syria, support us against the Arab revolt or fight Hezbollah.
    • GOD  •  3 mths ago
      "No baby - those Gulf states don't mean nothin'. It's you I really want. It's always been you."
    • YahSir, that'sArafat  •  Markham, Canada  •  3 mths ago
      MORE statements by Iran’s Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei along with a detailed blueprint for the destruction of the Jewish people posted on a website run by the head of the Iranian Parliament's research center.

      Translated from Persian to English.
      "Israeli people must be annihilated
      Israel is the only country in the world with a Jewish majority. According to the last census of "Israel Central Bureau of Statistics" this country has a population of 7.5 million including 5.7 million Jews. The other ethnicities in population structure are Muslims, Christians, Druzes and Samarians. The largest ethnic minorities are so called Israeli Arabs.

      Residents of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa can be targeted even by Shahb 3. Population density in these three adjacent areas composes about 60% of Israeli population. Sejjil missiles can target power plants, sewage treatment facilities, energy resources, transportation and communication infrastructures; and in the second stage Shahab 3 and Ghadr missiles can target urban settlements until final annihilation of Israel people."
      • Mark 3 mths ago
        What they don' t mention is that in the course of this they also eliminate the Palestinian People. But to Khameni it is not about Palestine or Israel, just like many Armageddonist Christians, it is about a redemptive conflict. If the species fails, it will be the doing to true believers. These true believers have God, Allah or Jehovah on their side so they can't fail right?
    • Jeff  •  3 mths ago
      Anyone who believes that Hamas is becoming "moderate" knows zilch about Islamists. These are just a few of the dozens of statements from Hamas leaers who will never recognize Israel's right to exist, nor live in peace with Israel.

      •"Hamas will not change a single word in its covenant" – Mahmoud Zahar, January 25, 2006.

      •"Hamas will never recognize the legitimacy of the Zionist state that was founded on our land" – Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based Hamas leader, January 25, 2006.

      •"The constants and the strategy of Hamas do not change according to circumstances. Hamas will stay faithful to jihad, to resistance, to guns, to Palestine and to Jerusalem." -- Ismail Haniyah, the incoming Palestinian Prime Minister and longtime Hamas leader, January 18, 2006.
    • Take that  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      As a Zionist, nothing I've ever read or posted is more convincing than this recent post from "Sheik" (follows). I did not make any of this up. This is some of the stuff they actually believe and teach:"As a Cleric and mosque Imam i tell muslim followers:True Muslim should enter the Wash Room with his left leg and leaves with his right leg -Wash Room is the Devil's home - as Allah's messenger Mohammed recommended.Do not allow your urine to touch your cloth or body otherwise your grave’s torture will be great and a hairless snake will enter your rear and exits from your mouth.One day Allah’s Messenger Mohammed was passing by two graves and he heard the two sounds of grave’s torture , one was for a infidel Jew and the other for a muslim suffering because of the the urine sin – He said that the sounds of grave’s torture can be heard only by demons and animals.Also ,when a true Muslim yawns ,he should protect his opened mouth with his hand and cover it ,otherwise the Devil will #$%$ inside it - As Allah's Messenger Mohammed recommended.True muslims should follow Mohammed's Sunna to to reduce his grave’s torture.Allah bless true Muslims"Wow. And they want nuclear weapons.
    • David Gheytanchi  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      The fact that Iranian satanic regime is running out of money is forcing another evil entity ,meaning hamas,to look for new masters with bigger pockets.as long as enteties such as hamas or the satanic/islamic republic of Iran are allowed to exist,the reign of terror will countinue.
    • Jeff  •  3 mths ago
      Once Hamas order the immediate and permanent cessation of rocket attacks on Israeli civilians, then Israel can look at loosening up border controls and allowing more aid into the country.
      Hamas must also bear responsibility for the destruction of the advanced irrigation systems and farmland Israel left behind when they withdrew from Gaza.
      Ultimately, what is the point in there being a Palestinian state if it's fundamentally incapable of surviving without foreign aid?
    • YahSir, that'sArafat  •  Markham, Canada  •  3 mths ago
      And just out of Iran...or translated ...the real deal...

      Board of Internal Political Archive
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      Code: 142 262
      Jurisprudential reasons for Israel's destruction
      Guestbook: Alireza Forghani, 15 Persian date Bahman 90
      Published: Saturday, 15 Persian date Bahman 1390 13:16
      Necessary destruction of Israel from the perspective of Imam Khomeini (RA):
      "Today the first qibla of Muslims to Israel, this cancerous tumor has been the Middle East. It satanic Israeli media division with the bombers. On every Muslim is required to equip themselves against Israel. My nearly twenty years of international Zionism Hey, I have and it's safe for all the world's revolutions and the liberation of Iran's recent past, I do not know. I have already noted, the usurper state of Israel, which is aiming for is the great danger and fear of Islam and Muslim countries is If the Muslims to make their deadlines, lost opportunities and avoid them if possible and necessary because the risk is that Islam is based on the Islamic states in particular and generally on other Muslims that corruption in any way possible to resolve the matter in. . all our problems of Israel. Israel of America. "
    • R  •  Miami, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Two S#*t Heads meeting in the Tiolet of humanity
    • R  •  Miami, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      Who are the only people killing their own kind? Arabs, More Arabs, Muslims and More Muslims. Tell me why, they think that they are a civilized culture or religion.
    • TG  •  3 mths ago
      Great!!! Perfect time to bomb Tehran... kill two birds with one stone...
    • harold  •  Greensboro, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      the devil shaking hands with his own
    • Jeff  •  3 mths ago
      Take Off Your Blinders!
      Jordan expelled you. All the other Arab States refuse to admit you. Hamas uses your international aid for weapons and corruption.
      You spew hatred only at Israel. Do you think Jordan or other Arab States will ever be your real friends?
      You need a new start with a two-state solution but you need to deserve it. Stop the violence and discuss issues rationally.
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