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28 Dec 2023


NextImg:Iran and Hamas argue over credit for Oct. 7 terror attacks: ‘Looking to wash blood away with blood’

Tehran has tried to take some credit for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as part of revenge for the killing of a high-ranking Iranian official, but the terrorist group Hamas flatly denied the claims in a bizarre spat between close allies. 

“It’s natural for Hamas to deny any linkage here to avoid giving Israel more reasons to continue its military mission against the terror group,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital. 

“Iran has been looking to wash blood away with blood since the killing of Soleimani, whose anniversary is near and it hopes to hype,” Taleblu explained. “It should come as no surprise that the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism would seek to use terror when responding to the loss of their chief terror mastermind.”

Middle East outlet Al Jazeera, which the Qatari government owns, reported Wednesday that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claimed the Oct. 7 attack, known as Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, was “one of the responses to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani.” 

Hamas, however, immediately rejected Iran’s statement, stressing that the group has “repeatedly” confirmed the “motives and reasons” for the attack, which it labeled as “acts of Palestinian resistance… in response to the Zionist occupation and its ongoing aggression against our people and our holy sites,” the Jerusalem Post reported. 

“Focusing on the ends, defined here as striking at the Jewish state, often matters more than the means or any intervening political motivation,” Taleblu argued. “This is what makes Iran a successful patron to its proxy network.”

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been trying to get his country the credit for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Iranian Supreme Leader'S Office via ZUMA / SplashNews.com
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh shake hands during a meeting in Doha, Qatar on Dec. 20, 2023. AP

“It’s natural for Hamas to deny any linkage here so as to avoid giving Israel more reasons to continue its military mission against the terror group,” he added. 

Iran’s claim follows the death of another senior IRGC adviser in Damascus on Monday, which the group labeled “an act of terrorism” committed by Israel, according to Iranian state media. 

The Wall Street Journal, in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, reported that Iran helped plan the attack and train Hamas terrorists ahead of its execution.

Hamas terrorists transport a captured Israeli civilian on a motorcycle from Kfar Azza kibbutz to the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023. AP
A Tribe of Nova music festival attendee runs from the terrorist attack during Hamas’ initial incursion on Israel on Oct. 7.

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Hamas strongly and repeatedly denied Iran’s involvement, and Iran initially claimed it had no foreknowledge of the attack. 

US leaders also said they saw no evidence of Iran helping Hamas plan the attacks – reports the US has since reiterated, which makes Iran’s sudden claim so surprising and perplexing. 

“It’s clear that while Iran has been the primary backer of Hamas, it did not hit the switch to tell Hamas to conduct its horrific assault on Israel on October 7th,” Joel Rubin, the deputy assistant secretary of state for house affairs during the Obama administration, told Fox News Digital. 

Reports suggest one of the reasons for the attack on Israel was the assassination of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in 2020. AP

“The result is that Hamas is growing increasingly frustrated that its patron, Iran, has not pressed the other militant groups, such as Hezbollah, to attack Israel in a cohesive way,” he argued. “Iran is responding to these concerns by slowly turning on its network, but American responses to Iranian proxy attacks have been swift and effective.”

Hamas is just one of nearly two dozen proxy groups Iran funds and supports in the Middle East as part of its campaign against rival nations in the region, including the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Some of those other proxy groups have attempted to either expand the conflict with Israel or to attack the US military assets and forces in the Middle East in order to disrupt American support for Israel. 

An Israeli 155 self-propelled Howitzer fires a shot toward the southern Gaza Strip during Israel’s military operation in the area on Dec. 27, 2023. Jim Hollander/UPI/Shutterstock
Iranian demonstrators hold posters of the llate Qassem Soleimani during a pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran, Iran on Nov. 18, 2023. AP

The US Navy shot down 12 one-way attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two land attack missiles fired by Houthis over a 12-hour period on Tuesday, US Central Command reported this week.

The Houthis have launched nearly 100 drones since Oct. 17 – much of their assets provided by Iran.