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Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks
WSJ ^ | 8 October 2023 | Summer Said, Benoit Faucon & Stephen Kalin

Posted on 10/08/2023 2:40:46 PM PDT by NautiNurse

DUBAI—Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.

Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions—the most significant breach of Israel’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War—those people said.

Details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group and political faction in Lebanon, they said.

U.S. officials say they haven’t seen evidence of Tehran’s involvement.

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A European official and an adviser to the Syrian government, however, gave the same account of Iran’s involvement in the lead-up to the attack as the senior Hamas and Hezbollah members.

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The IRGC’s broader plan is to create a multi-front threat that can strangle Israel from all sides—Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the north and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza and the West Bank, according to the senior Hamas and Hezbollah members and an Iranian official.

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Hamas has publicly acknowledged receiving support from Iran. And on Sunday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi talked to Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: beirut; hamas; hezbollah; iran; irgc; islam; islamicjihad; israel; israeliranhamaswar; pflp; pij; wot
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To: NautiNurse

And all of a sudden Biden restarts building Trumps wall... Maybe as a cover if / when we have a terrorist attack here so he can say, “well I was serious about border security and was building the wall”


41 posted on 10/08/2023 3:38:24 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Alas Babylon!
Some people are seeing this through the Russian/Ukraine lens ...

Which is appropriate.

Russia has also killed women and children, largely through their missile attacks. I remember seeing a photo of a small Ukrainian girl who'd had her arm amputated.

And while Israel's death toll is currently about 700, Ukrainians deaths are currently about 70,000 (plus several hundred thousand wounded). So Ukraine is a far greater humanitarian catastrophe than Israel.

Plus, Ukraine is weaker than Russia, whereas Israel is stranger than Hamas.

Yet even so, while I sympathize (and have donated to Catholic relief efforts), I do not think the U.S. should be involved. In Ukraine or Israel.

42 posted on 10/08/2023 3:38:24 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: NautiNurse
Most worrying is the threat from attackers permitted to enter through our own wide open border.

Good point. Both Europe and the U.S. are full of Muslim migrants. We need to focus on our own borders and domestic security, not foreign wars.

Some will say, you fight them here by fighting them there. Which is what they said about Iraq.

43 posted on 10/08/2023 3:42:06 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: JennysCool
I live in Italy and never watch TV. Can't stomach the MSM so I don't bother with any of it. I stay in touch with what's up by hitting up FR several times per day. When things happen in the world they get posted here very quickly. Not only is this an entertaining forum, it's a great news aggregator too.

Leftists are nuts, and evil too. Nearly everything they push is a ridiculous lie, including this latest one. Ugh.

44 posted on 10/08/2023 3:42:58 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Just learned that Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was in Israel during the initial assault. He is back home, along with U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY).


45 posted on 10/08/2023 3:43:56 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Angelino97
I meant: Ukraine is weaker than Russia, whereas Israel is stronger than Hamas.
46 posted on 10/08/2023 3:44:08 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97
I do not think the U.S. should be involved. In Ukraine or Israel.

I agree.

But still, arm up and carry. Just in case.

To Iran WE are still the GREAT Satan, and Israel is the Samll Satan.

47 posted on 10/08/2023 3:46:37 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Blue Highway

Right. The Briben Admin. starts re-thinking the southern border wall about 30 minutes before Israel was attacked. Amazing coincidence.


48 posted on 10/08/2023 3:51:10 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: McGruff

Kiddie-Sniffer-in_Chief pardoned one of the Iranians swapped for US prisoners in Iran, as part of that $6 billion to Iran deal.

The Pardon was Sep. 14

probably while the attack on Israel was being planned.


49 posted on 10/08/2023 3:53:38 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: euram

“maybe a year or more.”

And somehow kept secret from the Mossad and the CIA. I find it hard to believe that the intel agencies in both countries were asleep at the wheel...unless, of course, they were in Pronouns 101.


50 posted on 10/08/2023 3:54:36 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: NautiNurse
Merde alors! You are quite right!
51 posted on 10/08/2023 3:59:54 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

See my twit threads on this. Looks like this attack was an Iranian strategic attempt to break up a new Biden (Rutabaga) plan to have Saudi Arabia recognize Israel in return for “peaceful” nuke technology.

So, this ironically may have been good for the world, despite the terrible price in losses. A nuke-ized SA and nuke-ized Iran would pretty much be the end of times.


52 posted on 10/08/2023 4:01:13 PM PDT by LS
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To: NautiNurse

US intelligence did’nt know the USSR was going to collapse, FWIW.


53 posted on 10/08/2023 4:08:22 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: NautiNurse

“U.S. officials say they haven’t seen evidence of Tehran’s involvement.”

Biden’s problem is releasing 6 billion to Iran 2 months ago as well as authorizing a release of another 12 billion from money frozen in S Korea and another nation to Iran in August, much of which was used to arm Palestine to start the war. Initially, his allies in the US media will put their finger in the dike and go with the administration lie that there is no evidence of Iran involvement. But they are going to have to relent when global media starts reporting the connection. Biden is screwed, rightfully so; especially when the Republicans put together the narrative of Biden as the enabler of two wars, Ukraine and Palestine


54 posted on 10/08/2023 4:19:30 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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55 posted on 10/08/2023 4:27:23 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: NautiNurse

Israel can handle it. We can collaborate on hostage rescue though.


56 posted on 10/08/2023 4:28:51 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Husker24

Sounds like a plan.


57 posted on 10/08/2023 4:30:36 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: PghBaldy

And 51 highly ranked Intelligence Officers claimed the Hunter Laptop was Russian Disinformation.


58 posted on 10/08/2023 4:35:10 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to he)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Dang Straight!
A little range time always settles me.
Hoppes has a soothing effect also !


59 posted on 10/08/2023 4:46:00 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

Jennifer Rubin.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4187927/posts


60 posted on 10/08/2023 4:58:39 PM PDT by mbrfl
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