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Iranian regime officials, headed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with the commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Armed Forces and regime mouthpieces, hastened to congratulate the "Palestinian resistance organization" Hamas – which belongs to Iran's Islamic resistance axis – for its massive October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, as well as to express pride in the organization and exhort it to continue.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi (R) shakes hands with the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Hanieh, in the capital Tehran, on June 20, 2023. (Photo by IRNA)
Regime spokesmen said that "the courageous deeds of the Palestinians" in what Hamas is calling Operation "Al-Aqsa Flood" are justified because of Israel's "cruel crimes" against the Palestinians since its establishment. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stressed that "this cruel regime [Israel] took no pity on the Palestinian men and women, children or the elderly; it did not protect the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa mosque; it inflamed the [Jewish] settlers against the Palestinians like raging dogs; and it trampled the [Muslim] worshipers under its feet. Therefore, what must a nation do against all this cruelty and all these crimes?" Noting that Israel is "an oppressor [and] an aggressor", he added that "no one can present this monster [Israel] as oppressed." He went on to call on the Muslim countries to join with Hamas and Iran in continuing on the path of resistance.
Celebrating the massacre and the victory of the Islamic resistance via the Palestinians, Iranian officials rejoiced in how it surprised Israel and humiliated its army and political leadership, justified the scope of the destruction, and predicted that the aim of Iran's revolutionary regime – the destruction of Israel – was near at hand.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi published a transcript of his conversations with the leaders of the Palestinian resistance – Hamas political bureau head Isma'il Haniya and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Nakhalah – who are emissaries of the Iranian regime. In the conversations with both, he praised them for their strategic victory over Israel.
This report will review statements by Iranian officials and Palestinian resistance officials praising the Hamas attack on Israel and encouraging Hamas to continue its campaign until the destruction of Israel is achieved.
Supreme Leader Khamenei: "The Palestinians' Courageous Act And Martyrdom Were A Response To The Crimes Of The [Israeli] Enemy That Have Gone On For Years"
At the conclusion of an October 10, 2023 ceremony of armed forces officers, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stated: "In these days, an important political and military issue has attracted the world's attention, and it is the unprecedented events in dear Palestine... To our great joy, senior [regime] officials have taken correct and positive positions [in this matter]. I would like to point out a few things to you and to our brothers in the Islamic states:
"The first point is the same issue that arises in various analyses in the past two or three days is that since October 7, 2023, the plundering Zionist regime has suffered an irreversible military and intelligence failure. Everyone is referring to 'failure.' My emphasis is on the 'irreversible.' I say that this destructive earthquake has succeeded in destroying the regime of the plundering regime from its main foundations, and it is not so easily rebuilt. It is not reasonable for the plundering Zionist regime to manage to rehabilitate the same foundations, despite all the noise it is making and all the support it is getting today from the West. I want to say that since Saturday of October 7, 2023, the Zionist regime is no longer the Zionist regime it was, and it is not possible to easily compensate for the blow it has received.
"The second point, which in my view is very important, is that this disaster was caused by the deeds of the Zionists themselves. When cruelty and crime cross the boundary, one must wait for the storm. What have you done to the Palestinian people? The Palestinians' courageous acts and martyrdom were a response to the crimes of the [Israeli] enemy that have gone on for years, that escalated in intensity in recent months. The current government of the Zionist regime is to blame. In the history of the world... no Islamic nation has dealt with an enemy like the one with whom the Palestinians are dealing today. The Islamic nations and countries have never dealt with such an enemy, so audacious and so cruel.
Supreme Leader Khamenei (Source: Tasnim, Iran, October 8, 2023)
"Nations have been oppressed many times, but their enemies have never been so shameless, so evil, so cruel. No Muslim nation has been subject to pressure and siege like the Palestinian nation; we know none like it in the world or in these moments that are before our eyes. The Western governments, particularly America and Britain, never supported or helped any government like they support this false, cruel, and bloodthirsty [Israeli] one. First the British, then the Americans, and together with them various governments... [Even] the former Soviet Union, and others – everyone helped this cruel regime.
"The behavior of this cruel regime was such that it took no pity on the Palestinian men and women, children or the elderly; it did not protect the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque; it inflamed the [Jewish] settlers against the Palestinians like raging dogs; it trampled the [Muslim] worshipers under its feet. Therefore, what must a nation do against all this cruelty and all these crimes? A zealous nation, a veteran nation – the Palestinian nation – is not a nation of today or of yesterday. It is a nation of several thousands of years. How should it react to all this oppression? Well, it is obvious that a storm will take place. [The Palestinian nation] will find an opportunity and will bring about a storm. Oh oppressing Zionists! You are to blame. You caused this storm. You brought this disaster upon yourselves. The [Islamic] nation has no choice but to respond zealously and courageously to such hostility.
"The third point is that now, this evil, cruel enemy has begun a policy of presenting itself as oppressed, after it took a slap. Others help it, too. The media of the global arrogance [the U.S.] are helping it present itself as oppressed. Of course, this is also a miscalculation, that I will explain further on. This display is 100% false, because the Palestinian fighters have managed to exit the Gaza siege, to rid themselves of it, to reach the Zionists' military and civilian centers – is [the Zionist regime] the oppressed? Whatever this plundering regime is, it is not oppressed. It is an oppressor. It is an aggressor. It is ignorant, a bully. It is all these, but it is not oppressed. It is an oppressor. No one can present this monster as oppressed.
"The fourth point is that the occupying regime [Israel] works to present itself as oppressed as an excuse so as to continue its twofold oppression. Attacking Gaza, attacking people's homes, attacking civilians, mass slaughter and killing in Gaza – presenting itself as oppressed is a pretext for carrying out more and more of these crimes. It wants to justify its crimes by presenting itself as oppressed.
"I have said that this too is a miscalculation. The heads and decisionmakers of this plundering regime and its supporters must know that this [support for Israel] will bring them even greater disaster. They must know that the response to these atrocities will lead to a heavier slap on their ugly face. The determination of the courageous Palestinian youth, the determination of the Palestinians who are willing to sacrifice their lives, is stronger than these crimes. That is how it is today.
"The era is past when elements [from various countries] would come to manage to create for themselves a situation in Palestine through meetings and dialogue with the oppressor [the Zionist regime]. Today, the Palestinians have awakened; the [Palestinian] youth have awakened, the Palestinian planners are working with all skillfulness. Therefore, this calculation by the enemy is mistaken; it thinks that (it must) present itself as oppressed so as to continue its criminal attacks. Of course, the Islamic world should not remain silent in the face of these crimes. The [Muslim] countries must respond.
"The last point is that supporters of the [Zionist] regime, and some members of this plundering regime, have spoken brutally in the past two or three days, and this is continuing, including [claiming] that Islamic Iran is behind this move [the Hamas attack]. They are wrong. Of course, we defend Palestine, we defend the struggles, we kiss the foreheads and arms of the planners [of this operation] and [the arms of] the brave, resourceful Palestinian youth. We are proud of them.
"Those who say that 'the Palestinian operations were carried out by non-Palestinians' [i.e. Iranians] do not know the Palestinian nation. They have belittled the Palestinian nation. This is their mistake. Of course, the entire Islamic world has a duty to support the Palestinians. This operation is the work of the Palestinians themselves. The wise, young, and bold planners and the operatives who martyred themselves have managed to create an epic, and this epic will, God willing, be a big step towards saving Palestine."[1]
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei On X: "The Cancer Of The Usurper Zionist Regime Will Be Eradicated At The Hands Of The Palestinian People And The Resistance Forces Throughout The Region"
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on X (formerly Twitter) on October 7, 2023, praised the Palestinian resistance for its murder of Israelis. He posted a video of young Israelis fleeing from Hamas's attack on the Nova outdoor concert, during which over 200 Israeli civilians were butchered by Hamas commando forces, and wrote: "God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region. #AlAqsaStorm."
X users added the following context: "The people seen fleeing in this video are not members of the 'regime' but rather concert-goe[r]s whose festivities Hamas disrupted, using force and taking hostages," adding links to news reports on the events.
Twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1710752170096701778, October 7, 2023.
Khamenei On X: "Today, The Palestinian Youth... Is More Prepared Than It Has Ever Been" To Destroy Israel
In another post the same day, October 7, Khamenei shared a photo of Palestinians celebrating as they rode on a captured Israel Defense Forces vehicle, and wrote: "Today, the Palestinian youth and the Palestinian movement is more energetic, more alive, and more prepared than it has ever been during the last 80 years [to destroy Israel]. #AlAqsaStorm."
Iranian regime officials, headed by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with the commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Armed Forces and regime mouthpieces, hastened to congratulate the "Palestinian resistance organization" Hamas – which belongs to Iran's Islamic resistance axis – for its massive October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, as well as to express pride in the organization and exhort it to continue.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi (R) shakes hands with the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, Ismail Hanieh, in the capital Tehran, on June 20, 2023. (Photo by IRNA)
Regime spokesmen said that "the courageous deeds of the Palestinians" in what Hamas is calling Operation "Al-Aqsa Flood" are justified because of Israel's "cruel crimes" against the Palestinians since its establishment. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stressed that "this cruel regime [Israel] took no pity on the Palestinian men and women, children or the elderly; it did not protect the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa mosque; it inflamed the [Jewish] settlers against the Palestinians like raging dogs; and it trampled the [Muslim] worshipers under its feet. Therefore, what must a nation do against all this cruelty and all these crimes?" Noting that Israel is "an oppressor [and] an aggressor", he added that "no one can present this monster [Israel] as oppressed." He went on to call on the Muslim countries to join with Hamas and Iran in continuing on the path of resistance.
Celebrating the massacre and the victory of the Islamic resistance via the Palestinians, Iranian officials rejoiced in how it surprised Israel and humiliated its army and political leadership, justified the scope of the destruction, and predicted that the aim of Iran's revolutionary regime – the destruction of Israel – was near at hand.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi published a transcript of his conversations with the leaders of the Palestinian resistance – Hamas political bureau head Isma'il Haniya and Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Nakhalah – who are emissaries of the Iranian regime. In the conversations with both, he praised them for their strategic victory over Israel.
This report will review statements by Iranian officials and Palestinian resistance officials praising the Hamas attack on Israel and encouraging Hamas to continue its campaign until the destruction of Israel is achieved.
Supreme Leader Khamenei: "The Palestinians' Courageous Act And Martyrdom Were A Response To The Crimes Of The [Israeli] Enemy That Have Gone On For Years"
At the conclusion of an October 10, 2023 ceremony of armed forces officers, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stated: "In these days, an important political and military issue has attracted the world's attention, and it is the unprecedented events in dear Palestine... To our great joy, senior [regime] officials have taken correct and positive positions [in this matter]. I would like to point out a few things to you and to our brothers in the Islamic states:
"The first point is the same issue that arises in various analyses in the past two or three days is that since October 7, 2023, the plundering Zionist regime has suffered an irreversible military and intelligence failure. Everyone is referring to 'failure.' My emphasis is on the 'irreversible.' I say that this destructive earthquake has succeeded in destroying the regime of the plundering regime from its main foundations, and it is not so easily rebuilt. It is not reasonable for the plundering Zionist regime to manage to rehabilitate the same foundations, despite all the noise it is making and all the support it is getting today from the West. I want to say that since Saturday of October 7, 2023, the Zionist regime is no longer the Zionist regime it was, and it is not possible to easily compensate for the blow it has received.
"The second point, which in my view is very important, is that this disaster was caused by the deeds of the Zionists themselves. When cruelty and crime cross the boundary, one must wait for the storm. What have you done to the Palestinian people? The Palestinians' courageous acts and martyrdom were a response to the crimes of the [Israeli] enemy that have gone on for years, that escalated in intensity in recent months. The current government of the Zionist regime is to blame. In the history of the world... no Islamic nation has dealt with an enemy like the one with whom the Palestinians are dealing today. The Islamic nations and countries have never dealt with such an enemy, so audacious and so cruel.
Supreme Leader Khamenei (Source: Tasnim, Iran, October 8, 2023)
"Nations have been oppressed many times, but their enemies have never been so shameless, so evil, so cruel. No Muslim nation has been subject to pressure and siege like the Palestinian nation; we know none like it in the world or in these moments that are before our eyes. The Western governments, particularly America and Britain, never supported or helped any government like they support this false, cruel, and bloodthirsty [Israeli] one. First the British, then the Americans, and together with them various governments... [Even] the former Soviet Union, and others – everyone helped this cruel regime.
"The behavior of this cruel regime was such that it took no pity on the Palestinian men and women, children or the elderly; it did not protect the sanctity of the Al-Aqsa Mosque; it inflamed the [Jewish] settlers against the Palestinians like raging dogs; it trampled the [Muslim] worshipers under its feet. Therefore, what must a nation do against all this cruelty and all these crimes? A zealous nation, a veteran nation – the Palestinian nation – is not a nation of today or of yesterday. It is a nation of several thousands of years. How should it react to all this oppression? Well, it is obvious that a storm will take place. [The Palestinian nation] will find an opportunity and will bring about a storm. Oh oppressing Zionists! You are to blame. You caused this storm. You brought this disaster upon yourselves. The [Islamic] nation has no choice but to respond zealously and courageously to such hostility.
"The third point is that now, this evil, cruel enemy has begun a policy of presenting itself as oppressed, after it took a slap. Others help it, too. The media of the global arrogance [the U.S.] are helping it present itself as oppressed. Of course, this is also a miscalculation, that I will explain further on. This display is 100% false, because the Palestinian fighters have managed to exit the Gaza siege, to rid themselves of it, to reach the Zionists' military and civilian centers – is [the Zionist regime] the oppressed? Whatever this plundering regime is, it is not oppressed. It is an oppressor. It is an aggressor. It is ignorant, a bully. It is all these, but it is not oppressed. It is an oppressor. No one can present this monster as oppressed.
"The fourth point is that the occupying regime [Israel] works to present itself as oppressed as an excuse so as to continue its twofold oppression. Attacking Gaza, attacking people's homes, attacking civilians, mass slaughter and killing in Gaza – presenting itself as oppressed is a pretext for carrying out more and more of these crimes. It wants to justify its crimes by presenting itself as oppressed.
"I have said that this too is a miscalculation. The heads and decisionmakers of this plundering regime and its supporters must know that this [support for Israel] will bring them even greater disaster. They must know that the response to these atrocities will lead to a heavier slap on their ugly face. The determination of the courageous Palestinian youth, the determination of the Palestinians who are willing to sacrifice their lives, is stronger than these crimes. That is how it is today.
"The era is past when elements [from various countries] would come to manage to create for themselves a situation in Palestine through meetings and dialogue with the oppressor [the Zionist regime]. Today, the Palestinians have awakened; the [Palestinian] youth have awakened, the Palestinian planners are working with all skillfulness. Therefore, this calculation by the enemy is mistaken; it thinks that (it must) present itself as oppressed so as to continue its criminal attacks. Of course, the Islamic world should not remain silent in the face of these crimes. The [Muslim] countries must respond.
"The last point is that supporters of the [Zionist] regime, and some members of this plundering regime, have spoken brutally in the past two or three days, and this is continuing, including [claiming] that Islamic Iran is behind this move [the Hamas attack]. They are wrong. Of course, we defend Palestine, we defend the struggles, we kiss the foreheads and arms of the planners [of this operation] and [the arms of] the brave, resourceful Palestinian youth. We are proud of them.
"Those who say that 'the Palestinian operations were carried out by non-Palestinians' [i.e. Iranians] do not know the Palestinian nation. They have belittled the Palestinian nation. This is their mistake. Of course, the entire Islamic world has a duty to support the Palestinians. This operation is the work of the Palestinians themselves. The wise, young, and bold planners and the operatives who martyred themselves have managed to create an epic, and this epic will, God willing, be a big step towards saving Palestine."[1]
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei On X: "The Cancer Of The Usurper Zionist Regime Will Be Eradicated At The Hands Of The Palestinian People And The Resistance Forces Throughout The Region"
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on X (formerly Twitter) on October 7, 2023, praised the Palestinian resistance for its murder of Israelis. He posted a video of young Israelis fleeing from Hamas's attack on the Nova outdoor concert, during which over 200 Israeli civilians were butchered by Hamas commando forces, and wrote: "God willing, the cancer of the usurper Zionist regime will be eradicated at the hands of the Palestinian people and the Resistance forces throughout the region. #AlAqsaStorm."
X users added the following context: "The people seen fleeing in this video are not members of the 'regime' but rather concert-goe[r]s whose festivities Hamas disrupted, using force and taking hostages," adding links to news reports on the events.
Twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1710752170096701778, October 7, 2023.
Khamenei On X: "Today, The Palestinian Youth... Is More Prepared Than It Has Ever Been" To Destroy Israel
In another post the same day, October 7, Khamenei shared a photo of Palestinians celebrating as they rode on a captured Israel Defense Forces vehicle, and wrote: "Today, the Palestinian youth and the Palestinian movement is more energetic, more alive, and more prepared than it has ever been during the last 80 years [to destroy Israel]. #AlAqsaStorm."
