26 January 2006: HAMAS flag raised over Palestinian parliament building

26 January 2006: HAMAS wins elections in "Palestine"

It appears that HAMAS has emerged the winner in yesterday's elections in "Palestine", and former US President Jimmy Carter and his group of elections observers have placed their seal of approval on the elections.

Carter Carter led a team of international observers from the National Democratic Institute. In a statement Wednesday, Carter described the elections as fair and orderly.

The Prime Minister and cabinet have resigned, and Fatah has refused to join in a coalition with HAMAS.

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26 January 2006: Iranian Daily: Palestinian Hamas Opens Persian Website

The representative of the Hamas Revolutionary Movement in Tehran, Abu-Usamah Abd-al-Mu'ti, has reported the establishment of the first Palestinian website in Persian.

Abd-al-Mu'ti, by sending a fax to Kayhan, announced that the website's address on the Internet is: www.Palestine--Persian.info (www.Palestine-Persian.info). He added that the central website is also available at: www.Palestine-info.info; which provides information on the Palestine-related issues and developments round-the-clock.

The people of Iran and other Persian speakers can, therefore, follow the Palestinian developments in Persian. The website also offers services in Arabic, English, French, Russian, Pakistani Urdu language and Malawi language.

Moreover, the website offers other information on Palestine, including political and economic commentaries, news reports, the history and geography of Palestine, biography of the Palestinian martyrs, information on the refugees and the injured, history of Zionism, the crimes of the Zionists, the conspiracies of the colonial powers, published books and important articles on Palestine.

(Description of Source: Tehran Keyhan (Internet Version-WWW) in Persian -- Conservative Tehran evening daily. Published by the Kayhan Institute and edited by Hoseyn Shari'atmadari, Leader Khamene'i's representative at the institute )