“Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has congratulated Gaza’s Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya in a telephone call on a “great victory” over Israel, the two sides said on Saturday. Haniya in turn ‘thanked Iran for its support’, they added, days after Tehran confirmed it had supplied military aid to Gaza. ‘The Iranian president congratulated the people of Gaza and the (Palestinian) resistance facing Zionist aggression … on their great victory’, Iran’s news agency ISNA reported. Haniya’s office said Ahmadinejad called late on Friday to praise Gaza’s ‘victory after eight days of Israeli aggression’, referring to the Jewish state’s Operation Pillar of Defence which ended with a Wednesday ceasefire. ‘We stand beside the Palestinian people’, the Iranian president added”
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