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Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/19/specter-of-iran-looms-over-gaza-crisis/
Specter of Iran Looms Over Gaza Crisis
(Wall Street Journal) Gerald F. Seib - Looming over the crisis in Gaza is another significant power: Iran. Iran, most analysts believe, provided the longer-range rockets that have given Hamas, for the first time, the ability to reach at least the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israeli officials don't rule out the possibility that Iran's leaders may have helped prompt Hamas to step up its firing of rockets into Israel in recent weeks as a way to distract and tie down Israeli forces on the country's western border to reduce the chances Israel would direct its military attention eastward, toward Iran's nuclear facilities.