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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-fractured-Hamas-looks-to-mend-ties-with-Iran-445760
Hamas Looks to Mend Ties with Iran
(Jerusalem Post) Grant Rumley and Amir Toumaj - A senior Hamas delegation traveled to Tehran last week to attend celebrations marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Relations soured in 2012 when the Hamas leadership - then based in Damascus - publicly sided with the largely Sunni rebels against the Iranian-backed Syrian regime. The head of Hamas' international relations, Osama Hamdan, told Iranian media that the visit's main objective was reaching an understanding on the Syrian conflict, and that Hamas now supports a political resolution - a dramatic about-face from the group's previous anti-regime rhetoric. Grant Rumley is a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where Amir Toumaj is a research analyst.