Several U.S. academics protest that Iran doesn’t support Hamas. The Iranian foreign minister isn’t shy about hinting they do, however. From the January 22 “Iran News Round Up:”

  • Foreign minister Mottaki, speaking at the assembly of “popular associations supporting the oppressed people of Gaza”: “Support must take place since this is not expenditure but investment in our security. Thanks to divine wisdom the victory of the resistance movement is not distant and a divine conquest will be reached…”
  • Mottaki adds that it is only natural that the “resistance movement” in Gaza is armed and claimed that “the question of from where they have got the arms is a deviant question.”