TEHRAN - Iran is ready to help the two main rival Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, to reconcile their differences, the official IRNA news agency reported an official as saying on Sunday.
“The Islamic republic of Iran is ready to help with an agreement between Fatah and Hamas,” the foreign ministry official was quoted as saying.
“The principled position of the Islamic republic is to support the unity of the Palestinian groups,” he added.
On Friday, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas lashed out at Iran, blaming it for the Islamist Hamas’ failure late last year to sign a unity deal despite months of Egyptian mediation.
“Iran doesn’t want Hamas to sign the Cairo reconciliation document,” the Fatah leader said, adding that his aim was to “pull our people out from Iranian tutelage.”
Hamas routed the secular Fatah from the Gaza Strip in 2007 after deadly fighting more than a year after winning Palestinian legislative elections.
Source: Khaleej Times.
Link: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2010/March/middleeast_March315.xml§ion=middleeast&col=.
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