'Those who need evidence that Hamas's attack on Israel had nothing to do with Palestinians, but was planned to sabotage the US-sponsored India Middle East Corridor (IMEC), a trade route that is planned to connect India to Europe through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. IMEC will compete with China and Iran's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Tehran ordered Hamas to attack Israel to stop #Saudi normalization with Israel.
Ali Vilayati, top aid to Islamist #Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said "those who think they can solve their problems by normalization relations with the entity [#Israel] and severing their ties with Islamic nations, should know that they are exposing the security of this region to danger with their naive plans, such as building trade corridors through a sensitive region like the Middle East."
He added: "The response to such [plans] is what Palestinian resistance has proven, that what Western colonialism built as a safe house for the Zionists is weaker than a cobweb."
He warned "some countries in the region of the dangers of normalizing with the Zionist entity that is on its way to collapse," and called on these countries to "change course and learn from the fate of countries that previously walked down this road [codeword for the downfall of Iranian Shah who had normal relations with Israel and the assassination of Egypt's Sadat]." '