The Iranian general killed in the Israeli airstrike that triggered Iran’s retaliation last weekend was the country’s go-to figure for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on the Jewish state. Around 1,200 Israelis were massacred in early October, and another 250 were abducted and brought back to Gaza.
new york post report The United Council of the Islamic Revolutionary Armed Forces, an organization with close ties to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, announced that after the death of General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, it would play a “strategic role in the formation and strengthening of resistance fronts, as well as in planning and planning.” He announced that he praised it. Execute Al Aqsa Storm. ”
The Al-Aqsa storm refers to the attack on October 7th.
iran international report “Since the terrorist organization Hamas invaded Israel, 1,200 people, mostly civilians, have been killed and more than 250 taken hostage,” the group wrote on April 3, just two days after the killing of the deceased police officer. It is the clearest acknowledgment of Iran’s involvement in the atrocities committed by the United States. October 7th. ”
US-based Middle East Media Institute said:“This is essentially a public admission by a senior Iranian regime official that Iran was indeed involved in the planning and execution of the October 7 attack.”
This development is significant given that Khamenei said on October 10 that Iran was not involved in the October attacks.but wall street journal Just a day later, Tehran reported that it had inside information about the attack, even though it was not directly involved in it.
Critics in Tehran urged Iran to respond with restraint to Monday’s Israeli airstrike, suggesting it could be an Israeli ploy to draw Iran directly into the conflict.
Heshmatullah Farahtopisheh, a commentator and former head of Iran’s parliament’s foreign policy committee, said: “We should not take the issue emotionally. I have said many times since October 7 that this is an Iranian trap. I have also said that the series of events since October 7th have been a prelude to drawing Iran into war, and what has happened is that the balance between diplomacy and the battlefield has been gradually disrupted. led to a conflict that was not in the national interest.”
It is unclear whether Israel actually used the airstrikes as a ploy to draw Iran directly into the conflict.
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