[TonyLima]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/us/po...gence.html

The United States has collected multiple pieces of intelligence that show that key Iranian leaders were surprised by the Hamas attack in Israel, information that has fueled U.S. doubts that Iran played a direct role in planning the assault, according to several American officials.
The United States, Israel and key regional allies have not found evidence that Iran directly helped plan the attack, according to the U.S. officials, an Israeli official and another official in the Middle East.
While the U.S. officials would not identify the Iranian officials who expressed surprise at the attack, they said the Iranian officials were people who typically would be aware of operations involving the Quds Force, Iran’s paramilitary arm that supports and works with proxy forces.

Of course, part of the Israeli failure was their normal intelligence channels were all quiet/not talking about an attack before it happened. So maybe the Iranians are also just acting as well as Hamas was on their monitored comms.

I have not followed this thread closely, so apologies if this has already been posted.  The Wall Street Journal broke the story of Iran's involvement.  Gifted article, link should work.

[TonyLima]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/us/po...gence.html

The United States has collected multiple pieces of intelligence that show that key Iranian leaders were surprised by the Hamas attack in Israel, information that has fueled U.S. doubts that Iran played a direct role in planning the assault, according to several American officials.
The United States, Israel and key regional allies have not found evidence that Iran directly helped plan the attack, according to the U.S. officials, an Israeli official and another official in the Middle East.
While the U.S. officials would not identify the Iranian officials who expressed surprise at the attack, they said the Iranian officials were people who typically would be aware of operations involving the Quds Force, Iran’s paramilitary arm that supports and works with proxy forces.

Of course, part of the Israeli failure was their normal intelligence channels were all quiet/not talking about an attack before it happened. So maybe the Iranians are also just acting as well as Hamas was on their monitored comms.

I have not followed this thread closely, so apologies if this has already been posted.  The Wall Street Journal broke the story of Iran's involvement.  Gifted article, link should work.