A Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday afternoon to pay respects to the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. According to a single-source report, the delegation includes senior officials from the organization, but the two leading candidates to head Hamas's political bureau after the war, Khalil al-Hayya and Khaled Mashal, were notably absent.
A second Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday afternoon for the farewell ceremonies of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This delegation includes senior figures: deputy chairman of the political council Mahmoud Kamati, former minister Muhammad Fneish, foreign affairs official Ammar al-Moussawi, and four Lebanese parliament members affiliated with the organization. Notably absent are Khalil al-Hayya and Khaled Mashal, the two leading candidates to head Hamas's political bureau after the war, as first noted by The Zioneer at 16:31 Jerusalem.
An earlier Hamas delegation, which included Osama Hamdan, Zaher Jabarin, and Muhammad Darwish, had also arrived in Tehran, as The Zioneer reported at 16:52 Jerusalem. That report followed the initial confirmation at 16:31 Jerusalem that a Hamas political bureau delegation was attending the funeral, alongside delegations from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and Iranian-backed Iraqi militias — a convergence described by one source as 'all targets in one cluster.'
Khaled Mashal, though absent from Tehran on Friday, had stated on Tuesday June 30 that Mojtaba Khamenei is dead and that Hamas viewed itself as committed to attending the funerals of both Ali and Mojtaba Khamenei, according to a single-source report published by The Zioneer at 14:34 Jerusalem that day. The broader context, as The Zioneer has reported since Wednesday, includes delegations from over 100 countries arriving in Tehran for the four-day farewell ceremony.
The report of this second delegation, and the notable absence of al-Hayya and Mashal, is based on a single source. What remains unverified is whether this absence reflects internal political dynamics within Hamas's leadership selection process, or a logistical or security decision related to the delegation's composition.
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