Palestine’s new emissary to Iran submits certifications

The new Palestinian envoy to Iran, Salam Al-Zawawi, presented her certifications to President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday, almost a month after her arrangement, Anadolu News Agency reports.

An assertion given by Raisi’s office said the Iranian President reaffirmed his nation’s help to the Palestinian reason, naming the freedom of Jerusalem from the Israeli occupation as “a main concern for the Muslim world”.

He depicted solidarity and fortitude among various Palestinian gatherings as a “key to triumph” against Israel while censuring the standardization bargains endorsed by some Arab states with Tel Aviv lately.

In 2020, four Arab nations — the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco — consented to US-supported arrangements to standardize relations with Israel, a move discredited by the Palestinians as a “treachery” of their objective.

A girl of prepared Palestinian representative, Salah Al-Zawawi, Salam was confirmed as the new diplomat to Iran last month by the top of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.

Salah Al-Zawawi filled in as the Palestinian emissary to Tehran for a very long time, until last month, procuring him the title of “Moghaddam Al-Safra”, meaning the senior-most unfamiliar ambassador.

One of the establishing individuals from the Fatah Movement in Palestine, Salah was the second Palestinian emissary to Iran since 1979 upset, after Hani Al-Hassan.

During his long conciliatory spell in Iran, Salah kept up with close binds with political figures from both the moderate and reformist camps, and had great relations with all post-1979 presidents, from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the mid-1980s to Ebrahim Raisi in 2021.

Salam, who has lived in Iran for quite a long time and talks familiar Persian, will be the third Palestinian diplomat to Iran starting around 1979.

Since the 1979 transformation, Iran has kept up with close binds with Palestinian gatherings, including the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was given over the keys of the past Israeli Embassy in Tehran in 1979, which currently fills in as the Palestinian consulate.