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The Hamas-Iran Relationship
(Jerusalem Strategic Tribune) Matthew Levitt - Iran has funded, armed, trained, and provided intelligence to Hamas for decades. Funding from Iran has been especially important for the group's military and terrorist structures. As U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan concluded when asked about Iran's role in the Hamas attack, "We have said since the beginning: Iran is complicit in this attack in a broad sense because they provided the lion's share of the funding for the military arm of Hamas." Hamas would not have been able to plan and conduct its Oct. 7 operation without years of Iranian training, Iranian weapons, and hundreds of millions of dollars in Iranian funding. Dr. Matthew Levitt is director of the program on counterterrorism and intelligence at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.