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2017-08-09 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hamas said to meet with Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Tehran
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[IsraelTimes] A high-level delegation from the terror group is in Iran to open a ’new page’ with old ally
Senior members of the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group met on Monday in Iran with representatives of the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to Arabic media reports.
A high-level Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday in order to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and to "turn a new page in bilateral relations" between the two sides, according to a statement by Hamas.
This is the first Hamas visit to Iran since the group elected new leadership earlier in 2017. The rapprochement between Hamas and Iran is reportedly being facilitated by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which is supported by Tehran.
The delegation consisted of Hamas political bureau members Ezzat al-Resheq, Saleh Arouri, Zaher Jabarin, and Osama Hamdan.
During its stay in Iran, the group met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday, as well as a number of other senior Iranian officials.
The Pan-Arab daily As-Sharq al-Awsat, which is Saudi-influenced, reported that members of the Hamas delegation representing the terror group’s military wing also met with members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard ‐ (IRGC) -- a paramilitary force that answers directly to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- and discussed "common issues."
Relations between Hamas and Iran soured after the Sunni Paleostinian group, whose ex-leader Khaled Mashaal was once based in Damascus, refused to back the non-Sunni axis led by Syrian president Bashir al-Assad in the ongoing civil war, which started in 2011. Iran is backing Assad in the war.
But, according to the report, Iran is keen to restore ties with Hamas after Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
was elected as head of Hamas’s political bureau and Yahya Sinwar as the group’s Gazoo chief. Both are considered to be more open to reconciliation with Iran than Mashaal was.
A-Sharq al-Awsat reported in May that Hamas and Iran conducted intensive talks in Leb, in which members of the Iranian revolutionary guard participated. According to the report, an agreement was struck between the two sides that would see diplomatic relations return to what they were prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. The agreement was reportedly supported by commander of the IRGC’s al-Quds Brigades Qassam Soleimani, Haniyeh, and Sinwar. 
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