Abbas not welcome in Tehran, Iranian official says
Denying reports of a rapprochement between Iran and the Palestinian
Authority, an assistant to Iran’s parliament speaker said on Wednesday
that his country had rejected numerous requests by PA President Mahmoud
Abbas to visit the Islamic Republic.
“They’ve asked to visit Iran more than once and we’ve refused and have
never yet said yes,” Hussein SheikhoIeslam, an adviser to parliament
speaker Ali Larijani on international affairs, told Hamas daily
al-Resalah.
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