I am talking about direct IRGC planning and training for the attack

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-israel-hamas-stri... https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-fighters-trained...

The attack plan of October 7 is generally so similar to the attack plan prepared for Hezbollah by the IRGC, that it is not surprising it is one and the same.

That's why Israel in this current conflict early on made moves on Iran and why the end game is this war.

> More broadly, this is the Levant versus Persia, a power contest as old as civilization.

Wasn't it more, Egypt and Greece vs Persia while the Levant was rapidly conquered?