
While the total destruction of Hamas is understandably Israel’s main priority in the aftermath of the organisation’s horrific massacre of Israeli civilians on October 7, ultimately it should be Iran that is held to account for committing these atrocities.
Iran’s complicity in Hamas’s merciless assault against Israeli civilians cannot be underestimated; it has been reflected in the way the Iranian leadership has openly celebrated the indiscriminate slaughter of elderly women and babies as well as multiplying credible reports, including an almost comical one from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, “Call[ing] On Iranians Not To Speak Out On Iranian Involvement In ‘The Hamas-Israel Conflict’ — For Fear Of Harming Iranian Interests And International Status”.
