Qasem Soleimani says disarming Gaza resistance is wrong

Iran Leader Supports Hamas

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    ​By: Arash Karami, Al-Monitor
    Posted: 7/31/14 

    The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, Commander Qasem Soleimani, issued a rare public statement regarding the war in Gaza and his support for Palestinians fighting against Israeli forces. The dramatic, somewhat poetic message was originally picked up by Arabic-language TV station Al Mayadeen. Later, many Iranian news agencies and websites carried parts or the entire written message.

    Soleimani praised the “commanders who would not compromise and submit to pressure and not retreat against the conspiracies of submission.” He specifically praised the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the Al-Nasser Salah al-Deen Brigades, the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, “the political leaders of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad and all the resistance groups.”

    “The painful scenes of Palestine," he wrote, "breaks our heart and covers our chests with grief, a grief that in its essence has a deep wrath, a wrath that at the appropriate time will be poured on the heads of the criminal Zionists.


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