TEHRAN
\nLeaders of the Iran-led, \u201caxis of resistance\u201d, including Hamas\u2019s Ismail Haniyeh, discussed the war in Gaza during a meeting in Tehran on the sidelines of president Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s funeral, state media reported Thursday.
\nThe \u201caxis of resistance\u201d brings together Iran\u2019s regional allies in the fight against Israel, including the Palestinian movement Hamas, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, Yemen\u2019s Houthis and Iraqi Shiite groups.
\nThe leaders of these movements met Wednesday after attending ceremonies organised in Tehran to pay tribute to Raisi, who died Sunday in a helicopter crash in northwest Iran.
\nThe meeting was attended by Haniyeh, the head of Hamas\u2019s Qatar-based political bureau, as well as Hezbollah deputy Naim Qassem and Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam.
\nHaniyeh had also previously had an audience with Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian officials meanwhile included General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as General Esmail Qaani, commander of the Quds Force, the foreign operations branch of the guards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN Leaders of the Iran-led, \u201caxis of resistance\u201d, including Hamas\u2019s Ismail Haniyeh, discussed the war in Gaza during a meeting in Tehran on the sidelines of president Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s funeral, state media reported Thursday. The \u201caxis of resistance\u201d brings together Iran\u2019s regional allies in the fight against Israel, including the Palestinian movement Hamas, Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-409139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n