An official spokesman for Hamas has denied that the movement’s leader, Khaled Meshaal, is due to visit Iran. Sami Abu-Zuhri made his comments in a statement to the Palestinian media.
“Hamas’s relationship with Tehran is good,” said Abu-Zuhri, “but, currently, there are no arrangements for Meshaal to travel to Iran.”
He was responding to a claim by Dr Ahmed Yousef, a Palestinian politician and former aide of ex-Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, that Meshaal would visit Tehran this month in order to repair the relationship between Hamas and the Iranian government.
According to Yousef, there have been several meetings between Hamas officials and Iranians in order to prepare the ground for such visit. He claimed that Iran has promised to increase its support for Hamas in order to strengthen the Palestinian resistance to Israel’s military occupation.