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Zayn Malik.

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When he reached the top, he decided to walk away.

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This is John Bachelors.

I spoke to my colleague Ben and Ben Talibos, Senior Fellow, Foundation of the Defensive Democracies.

Questions raised about the origin, the funder, the decider, the green lighter

for the Hamas terror in the Gaza Strip on October 7th.

All fingers point to Hisbalah and Iran, including a report in the Wall Street Journal.

But then other voices say, no, we haven't got it confirmed.

Even the intelligence services are saying, we have contradictory information.

I speak to Ben him about why this is and Ben him very carefully explains.

This is an Iranian policy, an Iranian strategy, the surrogate strategy.

Here's Ben him explaining very carefully why attribution is impossible.

And that's part of the success.

The fact that we cannot directly attribute is in and of itself the success

of the Iranian proxy strategy in action.

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