Iran credited the Palestinians with forcing Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. “The evacuation shows that what was taken by force would not have been retrieved without resistance,” Iranian state radio quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi as saying Thursday.
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