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Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has assured the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas of his country’s support, in a letter to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, the FARS news agency reported on Thursday. “Iran will continue to fully support the oppressed Palestinian people until the realization of their legitimate demands and the liberation of the holy al-Quds,” he wrote to Haniyeh, according to the report. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. In the letter, Pezeshkian accused Israel of pursuing an “apartheid policy” and called it a “human and Islamic duty” to work with the Palestinian peo…