Day: April 16, 2024

Hamas, meanwhile, supported Iran’s attack on Israel as “a natural right and a deserved response.”

Iran and Hamas aim to obliterate Israel and ultimately to establish a global Islamic caliphate, and there are no limits to the violence they will employ to achieve this goal. Appeasing them encourages and enables them, as it does other jihadist groups.

“Iran threatens to hit US bases if Washington backs Israeli counterattack,” Times of Israel, April 14, 2024:

Top Iranian commanders warned Israel on Sunday that the country would face a bigger attack if it retaliates against overnight drone and missile strikes, adding that Washington has been told not to back any military action from its ally.

“Our response will be much larger than tonight’s military action if Israel retaliates against Iran,” Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri told state TV, adding that Tehran warned Washington that any backing of Israeli retaliation would result in US bases being targeted.

“If the Zionist regime (Israel) or its supporters demonstrate reckless behavior, they will receive a decisive and much stronger response,” Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi said in a statement.….

…. “We in Hamas regard the military operation conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran as a natural right and a deserved response to the crime of targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus and the assassination of several leaders of the Revolutionary Guards,” the Palestinian group said in a statement. Israel is engaged in a war, now in its seventh month, with Hamas after the Gazan terror group killed nearly 1,200 people and abducted 253 in a shock onslaught on October 7….