According to senior military analysts, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired over 600 rockets toward towns in Israel this weekend with the support of the world’s largest supporter of terrorism, the Iranian IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps).
It was no accident, according to Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, a former deputy commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ Gaza Division, that the PIJ attacks took place while Ziyad al-Nakhalah, the organization’s secretary general, was in Iran for a meeting with President Ebrahim Raisi of the Islamic Republic.
According to a quote from Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, head of the Iranian IRGC, “Today, all the anti-Zionist jihadi capabilities are on the scene in a united formation working to liberate Jerusalem and uphold the rights of the Palestinian people,” was published on the Sepah News website on Saturday.
The Iranian IRGC was classified as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration. PIJ jingoism, Hassan Nasrallah’s harsh comments against a maritime agreement between Lebanon and Israel, and Iran’s strong stance at the Vienna nuclear talks, according to Avivi, are all related.
Col. Richard Kemp, who oversaw the British troops in Afghanistan, told Fox News Digital that while the nuclear talks were taking place in Vienna, the leader of the PIJ was meeting with the Iranian president, the head of the IRGC, and others in Tehran to receive instructions for terrorist attacks against Israel. “PIJ is an Iranian front organization that receives hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from Iran. The West should be doing all in its power to stop the money flow to all of its terrorist proxies instead of negotiating sanctions relief and normalization with Iran.”
According to media sources, the government is expected to provide the Islamic Republic around $100 billion as part of sanctions relief in exchange for interim limits on Iran’s nuclear program if, as the Biden White House hopes, a revised nuclear agreement is struck.
Hamas, which the United States and the European Union have designated as a terrorist organization, governs the Gaza Strip. The EU and the US both categorize PIJ as a terrorist organization. Hezbollah is Iran’s main strategic ally in Lebanon as well as a US-designated terrorist group.