'Kumbaya' - Hamas and Iran have reconciled: Senior Hamas official

'Kumbaya' - Hamas and Iran have reconciled: Senior Hamas official. (I24).

Canada, UK urge EU to keep Hamas listed as a banned terrorist group after court ordered its removal

Hamas and Iran have repaired a close political and military relationship, deeply shaken by Tehran's support of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, group's deputy leader toldReuters on Wednesday.

Moussa Abu Marzouk said: "I believe that bilateral relations between us and the Islamic Republic of Iran are back on track."

He also told Reuters that Hamas, the ruling armed movement in the Gaza Strip, was not seeking a new war with Israel and wanted to see the enclave rebuilt after a 50-day conflict in July and August.

The news came as the European Union's second highest court annulled on Wednesday the bloc's decision to keep Hamas on a list of terrorist organizations.

Last week, a Hamas delegation visited Iran, a major supplier of military and financial aid to the group. "There are many indications that ... relations have been resumed in the proper way, as in the past," Abu Marzouk said, without elaborating.

Canada on Wednesday urged the European Union to keep Hamas listed as a banned terrorist group, after an EU court ordered group's removal from a blacklist.

"We are deeply concerned by the decision of the EU General Court to annul, on procedural grounds, the measures against Hamas," Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement.

"We call on the EU to take the immediate remedial steps necessary to keep Hamas listed as a terrorist entity." Hmmm....How long before Obama embraces them like Cuba? Next Christmas all in Jerusalem?