Iran and Hamas argue over credit for Oct. 7 terror attacks: 'Looking to wash blood away with blood'
Hamas continues to insist the Oct. 7 attack is only Palestinian resistance against Israel
By Peter Aitken Fox News
Published December 27, 2023 11:34am EST
Tehran has tried to take some credit for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel as part of revenge for the killing of a high-ranking Iranian official, but the terrorist group Hamas flatly denied the claims in a bizarre spat between close allies.
"It’s natural for Hamas to deny any linkage here to avoid giving Israel more reasons to continue its military mission against the terror group," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
"Iran has been looking to wash blood away with blood since the killing of Soleimani, whose anniversary is near and it hopes to hype," Taleblu explained. "It should come as no surprise that the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism would seek to use terror when responding to the loss of their chief terror mastermind."
Middle East outlet Al Jazeera, which the Qatari government owns, reported Wednesday that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claimed the Oct. 7 attack, known as Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, was "one of the responses to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani."
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