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Iran, a longtime backer of Hamas, cheers attacks on Israel

The government of Iran, which for years has been engaged in a shadow war with Israel and has supported Hamas, cheered the group’s attack on Israel on Saturday.

“The forceful response of young Palestinians today to the child-murdering Zionist regime showed that it is more vulnerable than ever and the young Palestinians have the upper hand,” said Ali Bahadori Jahromi, the spokesperson for Iran’s government.

Iran has for decades backed Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza and whose own interests in battling Israel align with Iran’s. Experts say that over the years, Iran has provided Hamas with financial and political support, weapons, and technology and training to build its own arsenal of advanced rockets that can reach deep into Israeli territory.

There was no immediate sign that Iran had coordinated with Hamas on its most recent attacks.

But one of Iran’s most senior military commanders said Iran would fully support Gaza’s operation, which the group has called Al-Aqsa Storm, after the mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City. “We are confident that all the resistance groups in the region will support this,” said Gen. Yayha Rahim Safavi, the top military adviser to Iran’s supreme leader and a former commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guard.

Source https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/iran-a-longtime-backer-of-hamas-cheers-attacks-on-israel/