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Iran Is Recruiting Militant Allies to Launch Attacks Against Israel
(Wall Street Journal) Summer Said - Brig.-Gen. Esmail Qaani, who leads the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, has held a series of clandestine meetings in recent weeks with militant leaders across the region, including some operating in Syria and Iraq, in order to launch a fresh wave of attacks on Israeli targets. He also met with the leaders of Hamas, Hizbullah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, where they finalized plans for the April 6th rocket attack on Israel from Lebanon. Rockets were also fired at Israel from Gaza and Syria.