On Monday, June 3, during a government ceremony marking the anniversary of Ruhollah Khomeini’s death in southern Tehran, Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei said, “The Hamas attack on Israel was ‘exactly what the region needed,’ and Israel has ‘suffered setbacks from which it will not recover.'”
According to Khamenei, the Hamas attack coincided with a plan by the United States, Israel, and “some regional countries to change the dynamics in the region.”
The President of the Palestinian Authority, in this statement, highlighted the devastating consequences of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, including the death of “more than 36,000” Palestinians, the injury of “83,000 people,” and the destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure, including hospitals, schools, mosques, churches, and the displacement of thousands of Palestinians. He described Khamenei’s remarks as sacrificing the blood of Palestinians and thousands of Palestinian children, women, and elderly.
Ten days ago, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, which is designated as a “terrorist group” by the US and some Western countries, said that Iran supports its proxy groups with “money, weapons, training, expertise, and experience,” and that Ebrahim Raisi had “a great commitment” in this regard.
In the same session, Khamenei, in remarks seemingly directed at supporters of negotiations with the West, said that Raisi “did not trust the enemy’s smile.”
Khamenei also attacked critics of Raisi, who was killed in a helicopter crash, saying, “I felt sorry for Raisi; during his lifetime, some were not willing to say a word of these things.”
Immediately after the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, Iranian regime officials, while expressing their firm support for it and continuing their decades-long policy, repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel.
The day after the October 7 terrorist attack, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, the main proxy arm of the Iranian regime, began launching rockets toward northern Israel, and tens of thousands of Israeli citizens have been forced to leave their homes.
In this context, Yemen’s Houthis, also supported by Iran’s regime, have attacked commercial ships passing through the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, causing disruptions in global shipping.
Other militia groups supported by the Iranian government in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon have also occasionally carried out attacks against Israel and US military bases in the region.
