Iran-Palestine Relations

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi spoke to the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, on the phone on Friday and expressed condolences over the death of his sons and grandchildren in an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip.

Millions of Iranians participating in the International Quds Day rallies across Iran released a communique on Friday to condemn the Israeli massacres in Gaza and other parts of the Palestinian territories, saying the occupying regime will receive a ‘firm’ response over its atrocities.

Millions of people in Iran are on the streets across the country to mark the International Quds Day on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan to express solidarity with Palestinians.

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, lauded the unwavering determination and resilience of Gaza’s resistance forces and its people saying Gaza has been victorious in Israel's war. 

Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian movement of Hamas, says Israel sought three primary goals in Gaza, including the destruction of Hamas and the resistance, freeing the Zionist prisoners, and displacing the people of the Gaza Strip to the Sinai desert in Gaza, but they achieved none of these objectives. 

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has once again underlined Palestine’s status in the Muslim world, saying today it dwarfs all other issues.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says that the Zionist regime has gotten stuck in a crisis in the Gaza Strip, adding that the era of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has come to an end.

Tehran has shipped consignments of humanitarian aid supplies to Egypt for the people in the besieged Gaza Strip, the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman stated on Monday.

The leaders of the resistance groups have expressed their gratitude to Iran for supporting the people of Palestine, saying the situation is in favor of resistance and certain signs of victory for the Palestinian nation have emerged.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, in a meeting with Iran's foreign minister, stated he is confident that the Palestinian nation and resistance factions will eventually emerge victorious and that Israel will suffer a humiliating defeat in the Gaza Strip.

Iran has dispatched its third consignment of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, which is the second such shipment to be sent by sea.

Iran, the three-times champions, beat Palestine 4-1 in their Group C AFC Asian Cup 2023 opener at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan in Qatar's Doha on Sunday. A minute’s silence for the people affected by the war in the Gaza Strip was interspersed with chants of “free Palestine”.

Iranian Foreign Ministry has, in a statement, thrown Tehran's full support behind the South African government's action against Israel at the International Court of Justice, over its "crimes in Gaza and the West Bank."

Commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani has reminded Israel that their nightmare has begun after the assassination of Deputy Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas Saleh al-Arouri.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian met with head of Hamas’ political bureau Ismail Haniyeh in the Qatari capital Doha on Wednesday in a show of support for Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza Strip which has been under Israel's relentless bombardment for more than two months.

The Iranian foreign minister has called for the continuation of the truce in the Gaza Strip and massive delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged territory and a prisoner swap deal between Palestinians and the Israeli regime.

The Iranian Army  Commander Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi has expressed the country’s readiness to provide medical assistance to the Palestinian people in Gaza.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has hailed Iran’s major contribution to diplomatic attempts that led to a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip between the group and Israel.

The Iranian foreign minister has reaffirmed Tehran’s full support for the Palestinian nation and resistance groups fighting Israeli occupation.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian says the 6-week resistance of Gaza heroes against Israel showed that time is not on the Zionist regime’s side.

In a striking show of solidarity with Palestine, over 10 million Iranians have come forward, announcing their readiness to go to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel, according to recent statistics.

A member of Hamas's political bureau said the news published by Reuters claiming that the Iranian supreme leader has announced that Iran will not enter into a war for Hamas is false and pure slander.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says Tehran has reservations about the two-state solution to the Palestine crisis despite the fact that the provision regarding the issue has been incorporated in the summit of the Islamic states in Riyadh.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has hailed the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip for their 35-day resistance against the Zionist regime, calling for the arming of Palestinians in the face of the Israelis.

Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, emphasized in an exclusive interview with CNN that while Iran supports Palestine, it played no part in the Al-Aqsa storm operation against Israel on October 7th.