Politics Iran's president meets high-ranking Hamas delegation

Iran's President Massud Peseshkian has met with a high-ranking delegation from the Islamist Hamas in Qatar. During his trip to the Qatari capital Doha, he met leading members of the extremist Palestinian organization, including the high-ranking Hamas official Khalil al-Haja, as pictures from Iranian state media showed. Peseshkian had originally travelled to the Gulf emirate for a summit of the "Asia Cooperation Dialogue" organization.

The political director of the Hamas office in Doha, Ismail Hanjia, was killed at the end of July during a visit to Iran. The Islamic Republic holds the arch-enemy Israel responsible.

Militias allied with Iran had recently been considerably weakened militarily. The Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli operation. In revenge for the killing, Iran's Revolutionary Guards fired around 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday.