“When you wake up the bear with such an attack, it’s quite difficult for your allies to stand in the same position as you.”
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Iran's supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three senior officials: You gave us no warning of your Oct. 7 attack on Israel and we will not enter the war on your behalf.
“What do you mean ‘we’, paleface?” — all alliances are conditional.
In this particular case, despite that Hamas likely attacked to stop the Israel-Saudi rapprochement, and Iran is extremely opposed to Saudi power, Iran isn’t going in on this one.