Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian indicated that "the United States and Israel were finally forced to negotiate with Hamas for a ceasefire and the release of their captives in the Gaza Strip." During his meeting with the political bureau chief of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, today in Doha, Abdullahiyan stated: "Despite more than a month and a half of aggression and harsh war, during which the United States and the Zionist entity killed and injured tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens, and achieving very little in the military domain, they were finally forced to negotiate indirectly with Hamas for a ceasefire and the release of their captives."
He added: "The dimensions of the Palestinian people's victory in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation were much greater, altering the strategic balance in various aspects in favor of Palestine, at the expense of the occupying, aggressive, and criminal Zionist entity." He asserted that "the Zionist entity and the United States are trying, through their political schemes, to achieve what they could not accomplish on the ground and through military means; of course, this dream will not be achieved, and the resistance diplomacy adopted by Hamas and the Palestinian resistance factions will render their procedures and political schemes ineffective."
In turn, Haniyeh emphasized that "the United States is the central axis in the war on Gaza due to its anger over the strategic dimensions and implications of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. However, despite Washington's initial opposition to a ceasefire, it was finally compelled to submit to the Palestinian will and halt the war in Gaza due to its awareness of the ground situation and the occupation's inability to achieve any accomplishment." He pointed out that "the decision of the United Nations General Assembly, agreeing to a ceasefire and the agreement with Hamas to cease hostilities and yield to the will of the Palestinian people and the will of the world, all indicate that the United States' hegemony over the international system has diminished."
