https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irgc-says-israel-forces-will-be-buried-af...Friday, Oct 27, 2023
Iran has become more vocal in its threats against Israel,
in response to the soaring death toll in Gaza, which has surpassed 7,000 Gazans killed. Prime Minister Netanyahu has at the same time announced "thousands" of terrorists have been eliminated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Israel has further said it took out three top Hamas commanders in the last several hours.
On Thursday, Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) warned that if Israel sends ground forces into the Strip,
the IDF will be "buried". He stated: "If the Zionists launch a ground attack in Gaza, they will be buried. If the enemies think that the Muslims will watch these crimes from the sidelines, they are gravely mistaken," according to a translation in regional media. He also aimed the comments at Washington, saying "the US will be buried by the fire they lit."
Adding further to tensions between Washington and Tehran, fresh Wall Street Journal reporting this week has found that
Hamas operatives behind the Oct.7 terrorist attack were given specialized training in Iran. According to the report, this involved up to 500 militants: In the weeks leading up to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, hundreds of the Palestinian Islamist militant group’s fighters received specialized combat training in Iran, according to people familiar with intelligence related to the assault.
Roughly 500 militants from Hamas and an allied group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, participated in the exercises in September, which were led by officers of the Quds Force, the foreign-operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the people said.
Senior Palestinian officials and Iranian Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, the head of Quds Force, also attended, they said.