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Khamenei cheers Hamas' 'epic' attacks on Israel, but denies Iran role posted on Oct 10 2023 23:18:51 UTC   via   al-monitor.com TEHRAN — Iran's Supreme Leader  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  threw generous praise at the militant Palestinian movement Hamas for a wave of deadly attacks and hostage taking well inside Israel over the weekend, that has left so far more than 1,000 Israelis dead.  Addressing cadets at a Tehran military academy on Tuesday, Khamenei hailed Hamas for the "epic" victory and the "destructive earthquake" it inflicted upon Israel. "We do kiss the foreheads and the arms of the smart masterminds and the Palestinian youths," the Iranian leader said as reported by his official website. Khamenei maintained that for years to come, Israel will have to reel from the "irreparable" devastation it was dealt by the Palestinians militants. Using his signature rhetoric against Iran's arch-foe, Khamenei described Israel as a &qu

  Wagner Trained Hamas Militants for Attack on Israel, Ukrainian Partisans Claim posted at 13:02:31 UTC   via   kyivpost.com Elements of the Russian private military company (PMC)  Wagner  are alleged to have participated in the training of Hamas militants, the Ukrainian Center of National Resistance (CNR)  reports . “The Center of National Resistance thanks the Belarusian underground for the information about the enemy,” its message reads. According to the CNR, the primary fields of training given to Hamas fighters included assault tactics and the use of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to drop explosive devices on to vehicles and other targets, a technique documented during Hamas’s assault on  Israel  over the weekend. The CNR underlined the view that among Hamas’s allies, only Russia possess experience in the use of drones equipped with the means to deploy explosive devices onto enemy targets. Gaza factions have released a video of a drone dropping a grenade on an Israeli Merka