TEHRAN – Iran’s Intelligence Minister on Monday hailed the Hamas resistance movement’s recent offensive against Israel, saying the move helped reveal the true colors of the Israeli regime. 

“This surprising and irreparable attack has shattered the entire security apparatus of the Zionist regime, a regime that created a mythical image and a Hollywood-like portrayal for itself and emphasized it for years,” explained Esmail Khatib.

The official added that Israel liked to call its military the 4th most powerful in the world. That premise was completely rejected after the regime’s colossal security and military defeat against Palestinians, according to the intelligence minister. 

Khatib stressed that the October 7 successful Palestinian operation wasted every effort the Israeli regime and U.S. had made in the past decades. 

“This regime was shattered by a powerful, committed, motivated, and jihadi-oriented force with an operation that did not have the equipment, facilities, information, and organization comparable to the fully armed and trained military, a military which was backed by powerful entities of the world and the self-proclaimed superpower, the United States,” the minister said, noting that according to confessions by Israel and the U.S., the regime can never go back to how things were before the Al-Aqsa Storm Operation.

The official also stressed that the U.S. has decided to take over and mastermind the current attacks by the Israeli regime against the people of Gaza. “The Zionist regime, in order to demonstrate and consolidate its power position, engaged in direct management and command by America and the official presence of American officers…, launched a confrontation that aims strengthen its power and influence by committing crimes, killing civilians, and continuous bombings,” he said, adding that Israel’s relentless crimes against civilians has turned the public opinion against it. 

Khatib also called for the U.S. to be held accountable for facilitating the brutal killing of Palestinians at the hands of Israel.

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