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Iran helped Hamas to plan and execute surprise attack on Israel, WSJ report

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – While the US and the Israeli military said they do not yet have concrete evidence of Iran’s involvement in Hamas’ devastating surprise October 7 attack on Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported exclusively on Sunday that the Iranian regime helped the Palestinian terrorist rulers of the Gaza Strip to launch the ongoing war. Vehemently antisemitic, Iran’s Islamic regime is the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism; it supports the Hamas terror group in Gaza and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, both of which are committed to the destruction of Israel.

Citing numerous sources, the WSJ reported that officials with Iran’s notoriously violent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps helped Hamas to plan the ongoing war it launched against Israel, the Post said. Iran gave Hamas the green light to go ahead at a meeting last Monday in Beirut, the WSJ reported.

The attack involved thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and 1,000 Hamas terrorists infiltrating southern Israel. The terrorists killed over 700 people in their homes, on the street, and at a festival in the desert in one day. More than 100 hostages, including women, children, and the elderly, have been taken into Gaza by the terrorists.

“An attack of such scope could only have happened after months of planning and would not have happened without coordination with Iran,” Lina Khatib, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London, told the Journal. “Hamas, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, does not single-handedly make decisions to engage in war without prior explicit agreement from Iran.”

Nevertheless, Israel Defence Forces spokesperson R Adm Daniel Hagari said in a statement that, while Iran is a “major player,” the Israelis “can’t yet say if it was involved in the planning or training.”