Beleaguered Hamas struggles to mend damaged Iran ties
After years of strained relations over the Syrian conflict, Palestinian Islamist group Hamas is looking to mend ties with its traditional backer Iran. But reconciliation is proving far from simple./ The outbreak of Syria's civil war nearly four years ago provoked a rupture between Hamas and Iran, after the movement threw its support behind rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, a close ally of Tehran. Wrongly banking on Assad's overthrow, Hamas's exiled leader Khaled Meshaal in 2012 abandoned host Damascus to move his base to Qatar. And ...
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