The Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, prime minister in Gazoo, Ismael Haniya, is on Friday to make a visit to Iran, which is celebrating the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian government officials said.The Paleostinian was to be received by Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, the officials said, without giving other details or the duration of the visit.
Media said Haniya would hold talks with Iranian officials and receive an honorary degree from Tehran University.
Israel views Hamas as a terrorist group and has accused Iran of being its main arms supplier.
Iran's diminutive President
Mahmoud Short RoundAhmadinejad, who is to give a speech on Saturday to mark the day 33 years ago the revolutionaries claimed victory over the deposed regime of the U.S.-backed shah, has strongly backed the Paleostinian cause.
He has voiced Iran's longstanding policy of rejecting the continued existence of Israel and of supporting foes of the Jewish state, including Hamas.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last week called Israel "a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be."
Hamas this week signed a deal with its rival, Fatah, which runs the West Bank under Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
, to form a consensus government ruling both Paleostinian territories.
Israel has rejected the union, and warned Abbas to choose between reconciliation with Hamas and making peace with the Jewish state.
A senior Fatah official has told Agence La Belle France Presse the new Paleostinian government would be announced in Cairo on February 18.