MURDEROUS Hamas terrorists drive off in a golf cart with an elderly woman they seized as a hostage during their surprise Oct. 7 massacre that left more than 1,400 Israelis dead, most of them civilians. Meanwhile, Palestinians celebrated the destruction of an Israeli tank the same day outside the Gaza border fence.
zbollah and their massive rocket forces.” It wasn’t always rosy
Iran’s role
The Biden administration has taken great pains to exonerate the Iranian regime from any direct involvement in the plan- ning or execution of the mur- derous Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that left more than 1,400 Is- raelis dead. When extrapolated for the
respective size of our popu- lations, Israel’s losses would be the equivalent of 49,000 Americans dead — more than 16 times the 9/11 attacks. Just a day after the Hamas
slaughter, The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian security officials “helped plan Hamas’ Saturday surprise at- tack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Mon- day,” citing senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy militia in Lebanon. No one in the Biden ad-
ministration has denied that report or claimed it is not true. They have just said that the U.S. intelligence community has not yet been able to con- firm it. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
MASTERMIND A woman in Tehran takes part in a government-sanctioned demonstration in April honoring Qasem Soleimani, the general who directed Iran’s terrorist activities throughout the Middle East before he was assassinated by a U.S. drone attack ordered by former President Donald Trump in 2020.
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Corps, or IRGC, “has trained 6,500 Hamas fighters on bases in southern Iran,” says Gabriel Noronha, a special adviser for the Iran Action Group at the U.S. Department of State un- der former President Donald Trump. Iran has never been shy
about its ties to Hamas, He- zbollah, and proxy militias in Iraq and Yemen, regularly hosting them in Tehran or meeting with them publicly in Beirut, Damascus, Doha, and elsewhere. “Iran sees Hamas as stra-
tegic deterrence, protection against Israeli strikes on its nu- clear program,” Noronha said. “Because Iran’s conventional army is pathetic and cannot compete with the U.S., they de- ter us through Hamas and He-
between the two partners. When ISIS-backed groups
rebelled in 2011 against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, an Iranian ally, Hamas sided with ISIS. That led to a six-year rup- ture between Iran and Hamas. By August 2018, Israeli
media were reporting that Iran was once again funding Hamas to the tune of $70 mil- lion per year. That funding es- calated five-fold one year lat- er, when nine Hamas officials met with Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran, and offered to pro- vide Iran with critical intel- ligence on the location of Is- raeli missile stockpiles. When the United States
killed Iranian terror leader Qa- sem Soleimani, the command- er of the IRGC Quds Force, on Jan. 2, 2020, in a drone strike
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