After playing a key role in the group’s military development for years and navigating deep ideological rifts, Tehran has renewed its extensive sponsorship in ways that contributed directly to the recent bloodshed in Gaza.
When the dust settled from the latest Gaza showdown, Hamas and other militant groups had killed more Israeli civilians than the entire fifty-day war of 2014, firing nearly as many rockets but concentrated in just one-fifth the time. On May 21, Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh praised Iran for enabling this intense bombardment, noting that Tehran “did not hold back with money, weapons, and technical support.” Five days earlier, while the fighting was still in full swing, the Iranian pro-regime outlet Tasnim News reported a phone call in which Esmail Qaani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF), spoke with Haniyeh and lauded Hamas’s actions. This message was echoed by other major Iran-backed militant groups, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah, and Yemen’s Houthis. Far from being an isolated phenomenon, the exchange of praise reflects a years-long warming of relations between Iran’s “axis of resistance” and Hamas, despite their Shia/Sunni ideological differences.
Shit analysis or known playbook?
How Iran Fuels Hamas Terrorism
https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/how-iran-fuels-hamas-terrorism
Archived link - https://archive.ph/l6Nud
Iran absolutely supplies and supports the Palestinian cause. However, it does not control Hamas. Case in point: Hamas' actions in Syria.