Abbas krälar allt närmare Iran för att sympatetisera.

Är det det Löfvén betalar för? Abbas var inte ond nog för att kontrollera Hamas, som velar mellan Saudiarabien och Iran, för att tigga pengar i stället för att börja jobba. Liksom Abbas. Inget i Abbas-älskande media här.


Palestinian Authority seeks to strengthen ties with Iran



PA official meets with Zarif, delivers letter from Abbas to Rouhani.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. (photo credit:REUTERS)

The Palestinian Authority is looking forward to developing its relations and strengthening mutual trade with Iran, a senior PLO official said on Sunday.

The official, Ahmed Majdalni, made the announcement after meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamed Zarif in Tehran.

Majdalni said he delivered a letter from PA President Mahmoud Abbas to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.

He added that the letter, which was relayed to Zarif, deals with the current situation in the Palestinian territories and “Israeli assaults against our people and their holy sites, as well as bilateral relations between the two sides.”

Majdalni said that the PA leadership was hoping to develop its relations with Iran.

He said he also discussed with the Iranian foreign minister the ongoing dispute between the PA and Hamas. The PA is hoping that Iran would use its influence to end the dispute.

Palestinian sources said that Abbas dispatched the senior PLO official to Iran to also discuss the recent nuclear deal between Iran and the world powers.

The PLO official’s visit to Tehran came amid reports that Iran has cancelled a planned visit to Tehran by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. The Iranians, according to the reports, are unhappy with the recent rapprochement between Hamas and Saudi Arabia. Mashaal recently visited Saudi Arabia and held talks with King Salman bin Abdel Aziz and other government officials in the first visit of its kind in three years.

However, Hamas’s representative in Tehran, Khaled Qaddoumi, denied the reports, saying contacts were underway to arrange a visit by Mashaal to Iran. Qaddoumi denied that relations between Hamas and Iran have been strained as a result of Mashaal’s visit to Saudi Arabia.

The Hamas representative said that meetings between Iranian and Hamas officials have been continuing at various levels inside Iran and other countries.

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