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At an October 17, 2023 meeting with members of Iran’s elite scientific circles, at the Imam Khomeini Husseiniya[1] in Tehran, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei instructed the commanders in Iran and the leaders of the resistance organizations that they must respond to Israel’s attacks against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. …

Tehran has warned that a ground offensive on the besieged Gaza Strip would be met with a response from other fronts. Iran has warned of a possible “preemptive” action against Israel “in the coming hours”, as Israel prepares for a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip. The Iran-backed, Lebanese group …

Introduction Iranian regime officials, headed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with the commanders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Armed Forces and regime mouthpieces, hastened to congratulate the “Palestinian resistance organization” Hamas – which belongs to Iran’s Islamic resistance axis – for its massive October 7, …

Current and former U.S. officials say decades of Iranian arms, funding and training made the worst terrorist attack on Israel in decades possible. American officials are investigating whether some of the Hamas militants who carried out the unprecedented attack on Israel received advanced training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, …

Iran sent a private message to Israel through the UN that it could intervene if Israel continued its military campaign in Gaza. Iran warned of a regional attack against Israel, including by Tehran unless the IDF halted its aerial bombings of Gaza, as it appeared that the IDF was fighting …

An October 11, 2023 op-ed in the Iranian website Asr-e Iran called on regime officials, hinting at the ideological extremists among them, to rein in their feelings and not to speak out regarding Iran’s connection to the “Hamas-Israel conflict” for fear of harming Iranian national interests. The article recommended that …

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 …

The Biden administration deployed an aircraft carrier strike group in a bid to deter a multi-front war against Israel, but lack of a formal defense treaty with Israel and Congressional authorities could inhibit Washington’s ability to respond. The Pentagon has begun surging air defense munitions and other equipment to Israel’s …

With contacts aimed at promoting possible normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia inthe background, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisiattacked Israel and warned against the normalization process. The Supreme Leader of Iranonce again referred to Israel as a “cancer” and declared that normalizing relations with it …

Hamas’ operation against Israel on October 7 was a major step in the Iranian effort to take control of the Palestinian cause. The surprise offensive by Hamas on October 7 has launched a thousand morsels of speculation. There is indeed much that can be concluded from the organization’s attacks against …