Iran working with hamas since Aug.

What Starts in Gaza - and Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Venezuela - Starts in Iran
by Pete Hoekstra • October 11, 2023 at 5:00 am

There should be little doubt that the war that began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, actually originated in Iran. The multi-pronged, highly coordinated and murderous attacks could not have happened without Iranian government assistance and approval.

Leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the Wall Street Journal, have acknowledged that the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been working with Hamas since August in planning these attacks.

The pattern of actions is clear: the Iranian regime, now funded by the Biden administration -- who carefully looked the other way while Iran acquired $60 billion by evading US sanctions, then threw in an additional fungible $6 billion on top of that -- has been, and continues to be, a state actor sponsoring terrorists, terrorist organizations and terrorist attacks.

The Hamas attacks on Israel were sanctioned by Tehran to help fuel tension in the region, probably to disrupt the possibility of an Abraham Accords-style normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Such an agreement would have had a seismic positive impact on the geopolitics of the Middle East. It appears, at least for the moment, any agreement between Israel and the Saudis is tabled. Ironically, after seeing the Israeli Defense Force in action, the Saudis might wish to have Israel as an ally more than ever.

Canceling this transfer makes even more sense in light of the Iranian president bragging that Iran would spend the funds as it saw fit, and not just for humanitarian purposes as the Biden administration disingenuously insists it will. Having a line of credit simply means taking funding already allocated for humanitarian purposes and re-purposing it for terrorism and the nuclear weapons program.

Iran, while still advocating "Death to America," is not only exporting its military hardware but also its battle-tested military tactics, techniques and procedures, including to Latin America.

Will the Biden administration really continue to do everything possible -- as it has with inflation, the fentanyl crisis and migrants pouring over America's southern border -- to avoid saying that what everyone can see in plain sight is not so?


There should be little doubt that the war that began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, actually originated in Iran. The multi-pronged, highly coordinated and murderous attacks could not have happened without Iranian government assistance and approval. Pictured: Iran's "Supreme Leader" Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) greets Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on February 12, 2012. (Image source: khamenei.ir/AFP via Getty Images)
There should be little doubt that the war that began when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, actually originated in Iran. The multi-pronged, highly coordinated and murderous attacks could not have happened without Iranian government assistance and approval.

Leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, according to the Wall Street Journal, have acknowledged that the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been working with Hamas since August in planning these attacks.

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