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Iran Sent Military Aid to Hamas
2012-11-22
[An Nahar] Iran has supplied military aid to the Islamist group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in Gazoo locked in a conflict with Israel during which it has fired missiles at Tel Aviv for the first time, the parliament speaker said Wednesday.

"We are proud to defend the people of Paleostine and Hamas ... and that our assistance to them has been both financial and military," Ali Larijani said without elaborating, in remarks reported by parliament's website, ICANA.ir.

Iran has never made a secret of its support for Israel's foes Hamas and the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
in the Gazoo Strip but generally eschews mention of sending military aid.

The Jewish state has accused Iran of supplying Hamas with its Fajr 5 missile, used to target Tel Aviv since an Israeli offensive on Gazoo was launched on November 14.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief General Mohammad Ali Jafari said on Wednesday that Tehran was only responsible for having shared the missile's "technology."

Jafari said: "Iran provides technical assistance to all Mohammedans who fight against world arrogance," a term used by Iranian officials to describe the West and Israel, the ISNA news agency reported.

The Fajr 5 missiles launched at Tel Aviv "have not been delivered from Iran, but their technology has," Jafari said, adding that the missiles were being "rapidly produced" in Gazoo.

The Fajr 5 rocket can hit targets up to 75 kilometers (46 miles) away, a far greater range than the home-produced Qassam rockets used in the past by Paleostinian gun-hung tough guys in Gazoo to target Israel.

A key backer of Hamas, Iran has stepped up calls for Gazooks to be "armed to defend" themselves and urged the Mohammedan world to retaliate against Israel for its bombardment of the Paleostinian territory that has cost around 135 lives.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday upped the stakes by criticizing "governments of Islamic, and particularly Arab, countries in the region" for failing to deliver an appropriate response to the Gazoo crisis.

"They should help the oppressed people of Gazoo and also exert efforts to break (Israel's) blockade of the territory," Khamenei said. "Instead, they only utter words, and some have even not verbally condemned the Zionists."

Iran has condemned Israel's air strikes on Gazoo as "organized terrorism," calling on international bodies to try its arch-foe for "war crimes."
Posted by:Fred

#1  Yeah, and Islamic charities in the U.K., U.S., etc have sent financial aid to Hamas. The only difference is that Islamic Relief isn't trying to build a nuclear weapon.
Posted by: American Delight   2012-11-22 08:41  

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