Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday denied that the Islamic republic had any involvement in masterminding last October’s Hamas terror attack on Israel — but acknowledged in the same interview that the Iranian regime arms, trains and empowers the Palestinian terror group.
“We did not take part in this decision,” Amir Saeid Iravani told NBC News correspondent Lester Holt when asked about Iran’s role in the October 7, 2021 attacks, which left 1,200 dead in the Jewish state.
“It is a Palestinian decision and a Palestinian implementation. We… have no role in this case,” he added.
However, Iravani was quick to detail the Iranian regime’s extensive efforts to support “resistance” against Israel and the West in the Middle East region.
“In the case of Palestine [sic]we send the arm [sic], we are training them and empowering them,” said the UN ambassador. “But with other parts of the region, the resistance part, in the region, we have some coordination, cooperation, consultation, and maybe some funding as well.”
Iravani denied that Iran ordered the Hamas attack on Israel. NBC News
Iran’s UN ambassador has denied that Tehran has sent weapons to Houthi terrorists in Yemen. ZUMAPRESS.com
The US has said that Hamas – which governs the Gaza Strip – is heavily subsidized by Iran, with funding from the country’s capital, Tehran, coming in at around $100 million a year.
US officials have also linked Iran to terrorist groups based in Lebanon, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the West Bank and groups in Iraq and Syria that have targeted US troops since Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas, which led to the deaths of three US service members. moon.
Iravani denied that Tehran had armed Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Houthis were re-designated a terrorist group by the Biden administration earlier this year after numerous attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, which sparked a US-led bombing campaign against Houthi targets in Yemen.
“Not at all,” the ambassador said when asked if Iran had sent advanced weapons to the Houthis.
“No. It depends on them,” he added, when questioned about Iran’s role in directing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. “They have their own weapons. See, they have been under war for eight years. They have a lot of experience.”
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