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Hamas says it hopes new Iran leader will ‘defeat Israeli-American aggression’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHamas congratulates its “brothers in Iran” on the appointment of the Islamic Republic’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei, and wishes him victory in the war with the United States and Israel.
“We wish him success in fulfilling the aspirations of the Iranian people to defeat the Israeli-American aggression and prevent the forces of arrogance from imposing their will on Iran,” Hazem Qassem, a spokesman for the Palestinian terror group, says in a statement.
In a separate statement, Palestinian terror group Islamic Jihad also welcomes the selection of Khamenei and says “all the free peoples of the world stand with you.”
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