Hamas’ Spokesperson Denies Statements Attributed to Movement’s Leaders on Iran’s Qom

Accounts and pages on Twitter have circulated an update of two statements regarding Iran’s Qom City. The tweets attributed the first statement to Hamas’s Head of Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh. The tweet read that the movement’s true loyalty lies with Qom. The leadership is seeking to establish Husainiyat to commemorate the passing of Iran’s IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in early January 2020 in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq.

The second tweet is attributed to a Hamas senior leader named Osama Hamdan. The claim said that the statement was made during Hamdan’s participation in the 35th Conference on Islamic Unity in Tehran, in which he said that Mecca’s Black Stone should be moved to Qom.

The two photos are screenshots of the alleged statements made in tweets, along with photos of the two leaders.