16/11/2023–|Last updated: 11/16/202301:14 AM (Mecca time)
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement deniedagitation) What was published by Reuters about what happened in the meeting with the head of the movement’s political bureau Ismail Haniyeh With the Iranian guide Ali Khamenei In Tehran in early November.
The movement said in a statement, “We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) deny the validity of what was stated in this report. We regret publishing baseless news, and we call on the agency to investigate accuracy.”
Reuters had quoted three senior officials as saying that Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei informed the head of the Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, during their meeting in Tehran on November 6, that Hamas did not inform Iran of the attack on Israel on October 7, Hence, Tehran will not enter the war.
The officials, who are from Iran and Hamas and familiar with the discussions, according to Reuters, said that Khamenei told Haniyeh that Iran would continue to provide its political and moral support to the movement, but without directly intervening in the ongoing war.
In its report, the agency quoted a Hamas official as saying that the Iranian guide urged the head of Hamas’ political bureau to silence voices in the movement that openly called on Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah to engage with all their might in the battle against Israel.
According to 6 officials with direct knowledge of Iran’s thinking, the latter – which leads what is known as the “axis of resistance in the region” – will not intervene directly in the conflict unless it is itself attacked by Israel or the United States.
Calculated attacks
Reuters also quoted in the same report – which Hamas denied – three sources close to Hizb allah The party was also surprised by the attack launched by Hamas, and that its fighters were not on alert even in the villages near the border, and they had to be summoned quickly.
A Hezbollah leader said, “We woke up to war.” The agency quoted sources familiar with Hezbollah’s thinking that the party made its attacks (on Israel) calculated in a way that kept the violence largely limited to a narrow strip of land on the border.
According to one source, Hamas wants Hezbollah to launch deeper strikes inside Israel with its massive arsenal of missiles, but the party believes that this will push Israel to destroy Lebanon without stopping its attack on Gaza..
Reuters said that the war on Gaza represents a test of the capabilities of the regional alliance represented by the “Axis of Resistance,” which includes the Syrian government, Hezbollah, Hamas, and other armed groups from Iraq to Yemen, amid different priorities and challenges among them.
