How Iran and Hezbollah tried to end Hamas
Who is the Sabireen Movement & How did Iran undermine the Palestinian resistance?
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Sabireen was founded in 2014 by Hisham Salim who split from PIJ
The group was funded and supported by Iran & Hezbollah.
In a clip from 2014, the leader of Sabireen is seen praising Khomeini and the "Islamic Revolution" in Iran
In another clip the leader of the movement is admitting to be fully dependent on support from Iran & Hezbollah
In another clip he's seen repeating an old Khomeinist slogan
"The road to Al Quds passes through Karbala"
The group marks an Iranian attempt to infiltrate Gaza, after Hamas choose to not support Bashar Al Assad in Syria.
The group's members mostly consisted of PIJ and Hamas members who switched over.
The group was funded with 10 million dollars monthly.
Iran naturally seeks to have proxy groups, because both PIJ and Hamas either were neutral or rejected Iran's policies, they founded the Sabireen Movement.
PIJ publicly issued an condemnation of the Iranian Sabireen group.
Hamas would later ban and dissolve the group.
Iran's attempt failed because there was a lack of Palestinian sympathy for the Khomeinist ideology.
Israeli officials were very happy.
They hoped it would be a way to deplete Palestinian weapons by letting them use it against each other.
Once again, Iran served Israeli interests.
Hamas however foiled their plans and thus let Hamas stay independent.
In addition to the above Iran also cut funding to Hamas by 15£ Million Pounds at the same time, rerouting the money to the Sabireen movement instead.
telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…
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