Wall Street Journal reports that Iran helped plot the attack on Israel

<p>The <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-strike-planning-bbe07b25" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Wall Street Journal (gated) </a>with the report, citing senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah:</p><ul><li>Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel</li><li>gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday</li><li>Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions</li><li>U.S. officials say they haven’t seen evidence of Tehran’s involvement</li></ul><p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken in an interview on Sunday with CNN:</p><ul><li>“We have not yet seen evidence that Iran directed or was behind this particular attack, but there is certainly a long relationship.” </li></ul><p>An unnamed US official on the reported Iran/Hamas meetings:</p><ul><li>

“We don’t have any information at this time to corroborate this account” </li></ul>

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

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