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Monday, June 19, 2023
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Monday, June 19, 2023
Hamas, Islamic Jihad leaders in Iran for meetings with top officials
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File: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory sign before he speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
The leaders of Palestinian terror groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas hold talks with top Iranian officials in Tehran.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi receives Islamic Jihad chief Ziyad al-Nakhalah while Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh holds talks with Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the newly appointed secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), ahead of meeting with other top officials.
“The most efficient way to end the more than 75 years of occupation of Palestine is resistance,” Ahmadian tells Haniyeh, according to the Nournews website close to the SNSC.
Nakhalah has been in Iran since last week and has met top Iranian officials, including the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Raisi.
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