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Found document suggests Iran sought to help Hamas make its own weapons ahead of attack, sources say
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics/document-iran-hamas-weapons/index.html
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“This example is another piece in an elaborate puzzle of a deep infrastructure of building, supporting, financing and training terror proxies by the Iranian regime around the globe and specifically in the Gaza strip,” one Israeli official said.
CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the letter, but current and former US officials said that it was consistent with how Iran projects power throughout the Middle East.
Iran has used scholarships to build its influence, develop potential intelligence assets and promote its ideology since the founding of Lebanese Hezbollah in the 1980s.
Tehran did not appear to have any direct involvement in the planning or execution of the attack, but both Israel and the US have said that Iran is broadly culpable because of its historic support for the group.
The document appears to be a July letter from a Hamas military commander to the Iranian government requesting that seven members of his unit be permitted to travel to Iran to participate in a scholarship program.
Jonathan Panikoff, a former senior intelligence analyst specializing in the region, says that the university program suggests that Iran wants Hamas and other proxies to have increased military capabilities so that they are not entirely dependent on Tehran.
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