2023-10-08 21:53:00
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A press report, citing high-ranking officials in Hamas and Hezbollah, stated that Iran helped plan an attack on Israel over a period of several weeks, noting that the Revolutionary Guards had given the final green light for that, last Monday, in Beirut. .
The same sources, which the Wall Street Journal did not name, said that Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers have worked with Hamas since last August to plan air, land and sea incursions.
American officials stated that they had not seen any evidence of Tehran’s involvement. In an interview with CNN, broadcast on Sunday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, “We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a relationship.”
From the occupation bombing in Gaza (Getty Images)
An American official said regarding the meetings: “We do not have any information at the present time to confirm this story.”
The American newspaper quoted sources it described as high-level officials in Hamas and Hezbollah as saying that Iran has put aside other regional conflicts, such as its open conflict with Saudi Arabia in Yemen, to devote external resources to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, to coordinate, finance and arm anti-Israel organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah. .
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The newspaper quoted an Iranian official as saying: “We are now free to focus on the Zionist entity… They are now very isolated.”
According to the newspaper, according to its aforementioned sources, the aim of the attack was to strike Israel, which seemed to be distracted by internal divisions around the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. It was attributed to sources in Hamas and Hezbollah that the attack was also aimed at disrupting the accelerating talks mediated by the United States to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, which Iran considers a threat.
According to the newspaper’s sources, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard began coordination between several organizations surrounding Israel last April, during a meeting in Lebanon, according to the Wall Street Journal, where Hamas began working more closely with other groups such as Hezbollah for the first time. Once.
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The newspaper reported that representatives of these organizations have met with the leaders of the Quds Force at least once every two weeks in Lebanon, since August, to discuss the attack that took place this weekend on Israel and what will happen next, and that the commander of the Quds Force, Ismail Qaani, attended. Some of those meetings were alongside the Secretary of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Islamic Jihad, Ziad al-Nakhalah, and the Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Saleh al-Arouri.
She noted that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian attended at least two meetings.
An Iranian official told the newspaper that if Iran was attacked, it would respond with missile strikes on Israel from Lebanon, Yemen and Iran, and would send Iranian fighters to Israel from Syria to attack cities in northern and eastern Israel.
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