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Iranian President Raisi: '[The Massacre] Carried Out By The Palestinian People And The Children Of Gaza Was Legitimate Self-Defense'; 'In Every Place Where There Was Rivalry Between American Forces And Supporters Of The Resistance, The Resistance Forces Triumphed'
In a blitz of media interviews and speeches on November 23, 2023, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi praised Hamas's October 7 "Operation Al-Aqsa Flood" – Hamas's invasion of southern Israel in which over 1,200 Israelis were murdered and over 200 were kidnapped. Justifying the massacre, Raisi termed it an act of Palestinian "legitimate self-defense" because of Israel's
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