Iran Helped Plot Attack on Israel Over Several Weeks – WSJ

DUBAI Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, another Iran-backed militant group.

Officers of Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions the most significant breach of Israel s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War those people said.

Details of the operation were refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group and political faction in Lebanon, they said.

U.S. officials say they haven t seen evidence of Tehran s involvement. In an interview with CNN that aired Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said: We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a long relationship.  

We don t have any information at this time to corroborate this account, said a U.S. official of the meetings.

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