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The Fictitious Distinction between Tehran and Its Proxies
(Wall Street Journal) Seth Cropsey - Much of the world considers the Oct. 7 massacre another round of Israeli-Palestinian violence, not an Iran-orchestrated attack. From 2021 on, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Hizbullah have reportedly planned and coordinated operations jointly from a nerve center in Beirut with direct Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps supervision. America has insisted on a fictitious distinction between Tehran and its proxies. Tehran hides behind implausible deniability by claiming that it has no direct control over these proxies. Washington has failed to respond seriously to an Iranian attack since Oct. 7, holding to the lie that Tehran isn't in control of an "axis of resistance" it quite obviously is. The writer, former U.S. Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy, is president of the Yorktown Institute.