NB Explains | Here is how Iran aided Hamas in launching a massive terror attack against Israel & US's role in it-
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In a significant development, Iran has reportedly backed Palestinian terror group Hamas who plotted the deadly against Israel. This came after Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad told the BBC that Iran gave its support to the Palestinian terror group to launch its surprise multi-front attack on Israel on Saturday.
Iran backs Hamas against Israel
Iran celebrated the Hamas terror attack against Israel with congratulations and fireworks. Notably, Tehran is a key backer of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as well as the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. "Go ahead, in the name of God," Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said in Arabic in a video posted on his website about the shocking terror attack.
"Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas spokesman, meanwhile told the BBC that the group had direct backing for the attack from Iran," BBC stated in its report. The statement comes after Palestinian terrorists infiltrated Israel, murdering at least 700 Israelis, including many women and children, in door-to-door killing sprees.
A report from the think-tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) highlights "Tehran has funded, trained, and weaponized Hamas and its other terror proxies to murder Israelis". It also said Iran maintains at least 19 proxy groups along the border with Israel, either supplying the groups with funds or weapons to keep them operating. The report also tracked whether the groups operated in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria or Lebanon.
Apart from this, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, before the Hamas attack, wrote on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that "the usurper regime is coming to an end," in reference to Israel.
"Today, the Palestinian youth and the anti-oppression, anti-occupation movement in Palestine is more energetic, more alive, and more prepared than ever during the past 70 or 80 years," he wrote adding that "God willing, the movement will achieve its goals".
The usurper regime is coming to an end. Today, the Palestinian youth and the anti-oppression, anti-occupation movement in Palestine is more energetic, more alive, and more prepared than ever during the past 70 or 80 years. God willing, the movement will achieve its goals.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) October 3, 2023
According to this X account, it was reported that Khamenei had meet the Hamas leadership days before the attack
Only 4 days ago khamenei the warmonger from my country, Iran issued this statement after meeting with Ismail Haniyeh the leader of Hamas. His threats to destroy Israel is not just saber rattling. Their words have consequences.@elonmusk! Don’t you think it’s time to #BanKhamenei? pic.twitter.com/AShCPUugPf
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 7, 2023
I strongly condemn the terrorist attacks against Israel. Millions of Iranians express their solidarity with the victims and their families. We the people of Iran know very well that, who is behind this assault.
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) October 7, 2023
Just a few weeks ago, the Hamas leadership visited Ali Khamenei the…
Did US President Biden give Iran $6 billion?
Now, President Joe Biden is being accused the terror attack was funded as US released $6 billion in frozen Iran funds for prisoner swap. In August, details were made public of a complicated agreement that President Joe Biden approved. Five U.S. citizens detained by Tehran were allowed to leave the country in exchange for the transfer of $6 billion in Iranian funds that had been frozen in South Korea. At the same time, five Iranians held in the United States were allowed to leave.
The $6 billion was Iranian money that had been frozen in South Korean banks. After Washington, under former President Donald Trump, placed a total ban on Iran’s oil exports and sanctions on its banking sector in 2019, these Iranian oil revenues were blocked in Seoul. The funds were not dispersed to Iran. Qatar's central bank is overseeing the funds, which are still in Doha.
However, according to former US Donald Trump, “American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks,” according to news agency AP. He further argued that, under Biden, the US is "perceived as being weak and ineffective on the global stage, opening the door to hostility".
Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, also said, "Let's be honest with the American people and understand that Hamas knows, and Iran knows they're moving money around as we speak, because they know $6 billion is going to be released. That's the reality."
Rejecting the claims, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that Iran has not yet been able to spend a single dollar of the $6 billion in funds that were unfrozen in a U.S.-Iran prisoner swap in September.
"The facts are these — no U.S. taxpayer dollars were involved," Blinken told CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "These were Iranian resources that Iran had accumulated from the sale of its oil that were stuck in a bank in South Korea."
