HAMAS AND IRAN : STRATEGIC ALLIANCE BETWEEN STATE AND NON-STATE ACTOR (2005-2015)

This dissertation is entitled, “Hamas and Iran: A Strategic Alliance between a State and a Non-State actor (2005-2015)”. The problem is that the relationship between Iran and Hamas is a sensitive relationship between the two parties. For several reasons, both regional and international, since the inception of Hamas in 1987, the relationship between Hamas and Iran has been growing. To understand the nature of the relationship between the two parties, whether these determinants are political at the regional or international level, so the main question is, why does Iran establish alliance with Hamas and what is the type of it? The purpose of this study is to have an idea about the Iranian-Hamas relations and understand their behavior and its impact to the Palestinian case. This research is part of social science studies and when it comes to the data will be use in the research is qualitative data since the researcher will talk about the political situation between the countries or between the countries and internal parties, so the researcher will use the qualitative data. Nominal data is part of the qualitative data, which gives the researcher the ability to talk about each state data also about each party data with not considering the importance of the organize it. Especially talking about Hamas or Fatah movements or searching about the Iranian or American data considering the internal Palestinian situation. The US position on the Iranian-Hamas relationship is a relationship between two terrorist parties. The United States considers Iran a sponsor of international terrorism. Hamas was placed on US terrorism lists in 1997