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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Thinking...thinking..what else happened just a few short weeks ago..on 9/11..who gave BILLIONS of dollars to Iran, oh I know I know..Joe Biden that’s who..not only gave BILLIONS to Iran, but has been funding Iran and Hamas since he stole the presidency
I worry this will not end well.
Nothing this big was planned in a few weeks, maybe a year or more.
So much for the notion that the “void” caused by the Speaker of the House (absurdity) “caused” this.
Ok maybe.
But I still think it was too sophisticated for Iran.
My thinking too....in just a few meetings?
Hard to believe.
If U.S. intelligence doesn’t know what Tehran is doing, this does not bode well for tracking Iran’s nuke developments.
The Neocons and war profiteers are having a wargasm.
Target and wipe out Iran’s leadership. No quarter.
Kill them all
I don't expect much of the U.S.
That's crazy talk. We do, however, need to get a new Speaker posthaste with the Middle East heating up quickly--and our own naked exposure to threats across the Homeland.
Of course they won’t admit it, can’t make The Big Guy look bad, can we?
We have a Speaker.
That attack took more than weeks to plan, equip, train, and practice
They didn’t figure it out by watching “Red Dawn”
Hardly sleeping. Pathological obsession with a seditious conspiracy to overthrow the Milquetoast Netanyahu government. Screw their fellow Jews. They’ve got a Utopia to establish. Just ask ‘em.
Who was the idiot who suggested that?
What do you suggest?
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