"Relations between Hamas and Iran have resumed," Mahmoud al-Zahar told news hounds at a news conference in Gazoo, the Paleostinian enclave ruled by Hamas since 2007.
Ties had been "affected by the Syria situation, and Hamas has withdrawn from Syria so that it can't be identified with this or that side," he said.
"We've confirmed we are not interfering in the Syrian case, or in any other Arab country."
Shiite Iran had long supported the Sunni Hamas against their shared enemy Israel.
But exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal left his base in Damascus after the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, criticizing
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, a key ally of Iran, and moving to the Sunni Gulf state of Qatar.
Subsequent reports that Hamas was supporting the Sunni-led rebels in Syria against Iran-backed Shiite supporters of Assad, such as Leb's Hizbullah, led to a decrease in crucial Iranian funding of Hamas, according to media reports.