February 8, 2026, 11:01 am Senior Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal is interviewed by Al Jazeera on December 10, 2025. A senior Hamas leader says the terror group will not surrender its weapons nor accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against US and Israeli demands. “Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept,” Khaled Mashaal says at a conference in Doha. “As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is a right of peoples under occupation… something nations take pride in,” says Mashaal. Mashaal urges the Board of Peace to adopt what he calls a “balanced approach” that would allow for Gaza’s reconstruction and the flow of aid to its roughly 2.2 million residents, while warning that Hamas will “not accept foreign rule” over Palestinian territory. “We adhere to our national principles and reject the logic of guardianship, external intervention, or the return of a mandate in any form,” Mashaal says. “Palestinians are to govern Palestinians. Gaza belongs to the people of Gaza and to Palestine. We will not accept foreign rule,” he adds. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump have insisted that the terror group give up its weapons in the near future as part of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. Trump has repeatedly asserted that Hamas “promised” to lay down its arms, and has threatened the group over the issue. At least publicly, however, Hamas has never agreed to lay down its arms. Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza explicitly says that Hamas must give up its weapons, but the Hamas statement endorsing the plan contained significant conditions and did not directly mention disarmament

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By Agencies and ToI Staff. February 8, 2026, 9:50 am Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks during the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on February 7, 2026. Iran will never surrender the right to enrich uranium, even if war “is imposed on us,” its foreign minister says, defying pressure from Washington. “Iran has paid a very heavy price for its peaceful nuclear program and for uranium enrichment,” Abbas Araghchi tells a forum in Tehran. “Why do we insist so much on enrichment and refuse to give it up even if a war is imposed on us? Because no one has the right to dictate our behavior,” he says, two days after he met US envoy Steve Witkoff in Oman. Abbas also says that his country is not intimidated by the US naval deployment in the Gulf. “Their military deployment in the region does not scare us,” he says. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to use force to compel Iran to reach a deal on the nuclear program, after starting a build-up of troops in the region over Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests that killed thousands and saw tens of thousands of others detained in the Islamic Republic. Before the war with Israel and the US last year, Iran had been enriching uranium up to 60 percent purity, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels. The UN nuclear watchdog — International Atomic Energy Agency — has said Iran is the only country in the world to enrich to that level that wasn’t armed with the bomb. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week that the talks between his country and Iran needed to address Tehran’s nuclear program, its ballistic missiles, support for proxy terror groups around the region, and “treatment of their own people.”

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