AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has hailed Palestinians’ eleven-month-long steadfastness in the face of the Israeli regime’s genocidal war and atrocities, expressing confidence that “final victory” belongs to the Palestinian people.
The top diplomat made the remarks on Wednesday during a telephone conversation with Khalil al-Hayya, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’s deputy Political Bureau chief.
“The current Iranian Administration will continue to robustly pursue its predecessors’ policy of support for the oppressed Palestinian nation,” Araghchi added, stressing that the Islamic Republic would stand with the Palestinians “until the end.”
He also underlined that Tehran would lend its support to whatever agreement leading to a ceasefire and cessation of the underway war on the Gaza Strip that meets the approval of the Palestinian people and resistance.
For his part, al-Hayya said, “The Palestinian people are grateful for the Islamic Republic’s permanent support for the Palestinian cause and their resistance in the face of Zionists’ crimes.”
He cited Iran's late Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s efforts in support of the Palestinian resistance as a case in point.
The call came amid the Israeli regime’s October-present geocidal war on Gaza that was launched in response to a retaliatory operation staged by the coastal sliver’s resistance groups.
The brutal military onslaught has so far claimed the lives of at least 40,476 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded another 93,647.
In July, Hamas agreed to a truce deal featuring withdrawal of the Israeli forces, return of the displaced people, an end to the siege that has been imposed by Tel Aviv on Gaza, and initiation of the territory’s reconstruction process.
The regime, however, rejected the proposal before coming up with “new conditions,” including its keeping its forces inside Gaza along the coastal sliver’s border with Egypt.
The Hamas official, meanwhile, congratulated Araghchi on his recent appointment as Amir-Abdollahian’s successor, for which the top Iranian diplomat expressed his gratitude.
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