[Al Ahram] Iran's President Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad congratulated Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Prime Minister Ismail Haniya for their "great victory" over Israel in a phone call on, the two sides said on Saturday.
Haniya in turn "thanked Iran for its support," they added, days after Tehran confirmed it had supplied military aid to Gazoo.
"The Iranian president congratulated the people of Gazoo and the (Paleostinian) resistance facing Zionist aggression ... on their great victory," Iran's news agency ISNA reported.
Haniya's office said Ahmadinejad called late on Friday to praise Gazoo's "victory after eight days of Israeli aggression," following the declaration of a ceasefire ending Operation Pillar of Defence on Wednesday.
"We stand beside the Paleostinian people," the Iranian president added.
Parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Wednesday said Iran had supplied military aid to Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gazoo and fired missiles at Tel Aviv for the first time during the eight-day conflict with Israel.