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Iran Admits to Arming Hamas in Gaza
by John M. Curtis
(310) 204-8700
Copyright
August 25, 2014
All Rights Reserved.
Acting no differently than Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein who paid families of suicide bombers to attack Israel, Iran’s Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Iran to rearm Hamas. Commander of Iran’s Aerial Forces of the Republican Guard Gen. Amir-Ali Hajizadeh called
on the Persian Nation to rearm Palestinians with more rockets or better
technology to build them after Hamas exhausted nearly 40% of its 10,000-rocket
arsenal. Locked in an uphill battle
with the U.S. and permanent members of U.N. Security Council over its nuclear
program, Iran flashed its cards about supplying Hamas the arms and technology to
continue firing rockets deep into Israel.
If Hamas’s rockets reflect current Iranian technology, Israel has little
to worry about, since most rockets miss their targets, falling harmlessly in
open fields. Rearming Hamas shows
the mullah’s true colors.
Admitting that they supply Hamas rockets and technology isn’t the best PR
for the Persian nation in advance of a tough nuclear deadline and more punishing
economic sanctions. “We will
accelerate arming of the West Bank, and we reserve the right to give any
response,” said Hajizadeh, also admitting that 79-year-old U.S.-friendly Mahmoud
Abbas receives Iranian weapons.
Calling Israel a “rabid dog” and “a wild wolf” for its bombing campaign in Gaza,
Hajizadeh mirrors the view of Khamenei that shows little restraint when it comes
to public remarks about Israel.
When the war started last month, Khaemenei called on the Islamic world to join
the battle against the “Zionist entity.”
Not one Arab or Muslim country has given Hamas or Abbas’s PLO anything
but lip service. Iran boasted today
about downing an Israeli “Hermes” unmanned aerial vehicle AKA drone over Iran.
Since Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for “Israel to
be wiped off the map” in 2005, Netanyahu has been on the warpath, calling Iran
an “existential” threat. For nine
years, Israel has pressured the U.S. and other Western powers to adopt tough
economic and travel sanctions, questioning Iran’s need to enrich uranium. Israel accuses Iran of a secret
nuclear weapons program, claiming Tehran is getting closer to a nuclear weapon. Iran denies the charges, insisting
that 16,000 centrifuges at Natanz and 3,000 more inside a mountain at Fordo make
Iran a threat to the Jewish State.
Netanyahu insists that Israel leaves all options on the table, including air
strikes, despite experts believing that Iran’s nuclear sites are too fortified
to penetrate. U.S. and the P5+1,
including Great Britain, France Russia, China and Germany, hope to cut a nuclear
deal with Tehran.
Admitting to arming Hamas and the PLO, Iran exposes its complicated
relations with Sunni Arabs with whom the Persian Nation has abiding distrust. Suicide bombings, mass murder and
religious desecration are routinely seen between Sunnis and Shiites in the
Middle East. Today’s
Qatar-funded-Sunni-war against Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite Shiite government
highlights the sectarian violence unleashed in the so-called Arab Spring where a
determined Sunni majority attempts to topple another Shiite-led minority
government. Iran likes to
pretend with its on the same page with its Sunni brothers when it comes to
Israel. Truth be told, the Arab world would like nothing more than to infiltrate and control the
Persian State. Iran’s Beirut-based
Hezbollah militia has battled Sunni insurgents in Iraq and Syria, helping
al-Assad stay in power, despite pretending otherwise.
Paying lip service to Hamas and the PLO wins Iran few plaudits in the
Sunni Arab world where Iran represents more a threat to Sunni states than any
kind of true ally. Iran and the
Arab World have little in common other that sharing it’s a blasphemous version
of Islam with Sunni Arab states.
Watching the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s former al-Qaeda group in Iraq—now run
by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—seize large swaths of sovereign land in Syria and Iraq
for a new Islamic state, Iran feigns interest opposing ISIS. Al-Baghdadi actually intimidates Tehran, fearing the ruthless nature of Sunni or
Wahhabi-fueled insurgencies that have no tolerance of Shiites. Neither Iran nor its client
Hezbollah nor any other Arab state wants to confront al-Baghdadi’s well-armed
ISIS militia. Nor are there any
European states willing to sacrifice blood and treasure to stop a growing Sunni
menace.
Iran’s proved over the
years to be one of the loudest propagandists in the Middle East, blowing only
smoke to Arab states. Chiming in on
Hamas-Israeli war shows only that the Ayatollah knows how to grab headlines,
like Hamas’s 58-tear-old leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal. Calling Israel’s war against Hamas
another Holocaust and Israeli Prime Minister the next Hitler, Meshaal mirrors
the same Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism
seen in the Hamas charter, showing striking similarity to Hitler’s Mein
Kampf, Hitler blamed Jews for all
the world’s ills. Meshaal admits he
has no problem with Jews along as they live peacefully in a Palestinian state. Beyond Meshaal’s mission continues
unabated: Israel’s destruction.
After hosting Meshaal for 15 years in
Damascus, al-Assad found out the hard way all the gratitude when Hamas joined
Sunni insurgency to topple his regime.
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