Iran–Palestine relations

September 9, 2025 - After the eruption of the second Palestinian intifada, in September 2000 after the collapse of Middle East peace talks at Camp David, Arafat released imprisoned Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, a decision that restored the relations between Iran and the Palestinian National Authority.

July 15, 2025 - Many of the current dynamics appear to be continuations of past trends, albeit with heightened degrees of violence, cruelty, and criminality (most notably in the US-Israel joint-venture genocide against Palestinians and attacks on Iran). The unfolding transformations will affect numerous dimensions of conflict in the Middle East, including relations between major Arab powers and Iran, the actions of Iranian-assisted armed Islamist resistance groups, Turkey’s influence, and the role of great powers (the United States, Russia, and China) in the region.

1 day ago - Fergal Keane has met thousands of traumatised children while reporting on conflicts. Here, he researches the long-term effect on them - and what, if anything, can help. ... They planned to discuss Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, where the Trump administration wants to see the ceasefire enter its second stage in January.

July 8, 2025 - Jerusalem, Washington, and others also see Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons as a key strategic threat; despite attempts to curb Iran’s nuclear program through sanctions and, at times, negotiations, Iran is now considered a nuclear threshold state. Terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah arose in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and use popular grievances against Israel—some legitimate—to feed their genocidal ideologies.

1 day ago - In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas.

4 days ago - In 2025, Israel attacked at least six countries, including Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria, and Yemen. It also carried out strikes in Tunisian, Maltese and Greek territorial waters on aid flotillas heading for Gaza.

May 13, 2024 - Still, his opponents formed alliances with Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon and elsewhere and criticized the Shah for insufficient support for the Palestinian cause. Forty-five years after the revolution that saw the Shah dethroned, there has been a significant shift in Iranian public opinion. While the Islamic Republic is considered the primary state enemy of Israel, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict does not appear to be a priority for the Iranian public, including various opposition groups, students, and intellectuals.

August 22, 2025 - Since the 1979 Revolution, despite exaggerated discursive aggression, Iran has hesitated to engage with Israel directly. Palestine has rarely been a central agenda item of Iran's foreign policy due to both a steadfast Iran-first policy and to the country's lack of conventional political and military capacity to resolve the conflict in the way it promises in its propaganda.

1 week ago - In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas.

April 25, 2024 - Iran and Israel’s latest exchange of attacks elicited varying reactions in Gaza, the West Bank, and abroad, highlighting one of the main challenges in the Palestinian arena: coalescing around a unified order that can advance a singular Palestinian national interest.

Despite the international sanctions and diplomatic isolation to which Iran has been subjected almost since 1979, but more pronouncedly since 2006, its government continues to use the Palestinian issue as a cornerstone of its foreign policy. This reinforces its axis of resistance with other regional actors such as Hezbollah, Syria, the Iraqi Mobilisation Forces and the Yemeni Houthis, and allows it to maintain its influence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and among the Arab population, as demonstrated by the war that began in October 2023.

February 9, 2024 - Vali Kaleji, a Tehran-based expert on Central Asia and Caucasian Studies, postulates that for a better understanding of Iran’s current approach to the bloody war between Israel and Hamas, the main axes of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran regarding this old conflict in the Middle East should be identified. Iran doesn’t recognize the existence of a country called Israel, unlike its position toward the United States. Indeed, Iran is against any plan for peace and reconciliation with Israel. Instead, Iran supports holding a referendum with the participation of all the main native inhabitants of the Palestinian land, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, in order that they may exercise the right to self-determination and decide upon their type of political system.

May 12, 2025 - The Iranian leadership, even before the Palestinian Nakba (Arabic term for ‘catastrophe’), demonstrated an understanding that endorsing this partition plan would sow the seeds of prolonged regional violence for future generations. They foresaw that the proposed plan would intensify conflicts ...

March 3, 2025 - The Shia-led theocracy in Iran and Sunni-led Hamas in Gaza adhere to diverging creed but have a common enemy in Israel. Their ardor is fueled by extremism driving both sides of the conflict, Schwartz said. "There is extremism on both sides. There are extremists on the Jewish side as well. There are Jewish extremists in the West Bank who are attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, and there's no excuse for that," said Schwartz.

1 day ago - In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas.

October 7, 2024 - The intense Israel-Palestine conflict is entering its second year. At this moment, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel and none of the antagonists can claim to have met their objectives.

January 9, 2024 - This article will focus on Iran, which established a clear stance on the side of the Palestinian militant groups from the outset. It will examine the possibility that, based on these changes in the international community, the “Islamic resistance” movement supported by Iran, which is wary of Israel and the United States, may spread the conflict.

August 24, 2022 - After the October 7 Hamas attacks, Qatar held Israel solely responsible for the conflict due to its "violations of the rights of the Palestinian people". ... In August 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) became the third Arab country to recognise Israel and establish diplomatic relations. Once nominal enemies, Israel and the UAE signed an agreement mediated by then US President Donald Trump. Since then, trade ties between the two countries have seen an upswing. Lakhs of Israelis have travelled to the UAE as well. ... Iran and Israel were allies during the reign of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

5 days ago - “In my opinion, we are at total war with the United States, Israel and Europe. They want to bring our country to its knees,” Pezeshkian told Iranian state media. He added that Iran’s conflict with the West was, in his view, worse than the war against Iraq that Iran fought in the 1980s.

June 15, 2025 - Israel attacked key Iranian facilities and figures on Friday, leading to three days of missile salvos between the two sides. The IDF also said it had created a safe route to Tehran and that Israel can now operate freely in Iran’s airspace. This story has been updated to reflect that fire and airstrikes caused the deaths of at least 41 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday.