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Foreign intel report said to show Qatar aiding Iran economically, militarily for years
2026-06-24
[IsraelTimes] Cooperation between the two countries said to have expanded after collapse of nuclear deal in 2018, with Doha supplying Tehran with rocket fuel, material to build drones

A report by a foreign intelligence agency shows how Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
has aided Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
economically and militarily for years, including by providing rocket fuel and material to build drones, according to a Tuesday report.
How generous, especially for the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Qatar government to the Shiite Mullahcracy. There must have been an interestingly twisty bit of thinking behind conceiving of this project. Feeding the crocodile perhaps?
The Kan public broadcaster reported that the cooperation expanded in 2018, when US President Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement signed three years earlier, and continued following the Hamas
..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
-led October 7, 2023, attack that began Israel’s multifront war across the region.

Qatar also holds some $6 billion of frozen Iranian funds that are due to be made accessible under the deal Trump is now negotiating with the Islamic Theocratic Republic. That sum, according to the report, is meant to fund terror groups rather than economic development.

Kan did not say which country’s intelligence agency authored the report, nor when it was written or how the channel obtained it.

It appears to show that Iran-Qatar relations, which ramped up in the late 2010s, led to a high volume of trade and cooperation between the countries in subsequent years. Both Iran and Qatar have provided support to Hamas, whose leadership was long based in the Qatari capital Doha.

Qatar also hosts a US military base and has repeatedly drawn Trump’s praise. It has acted as a mediator in the Israel-Hamas war, as well as in the US-Israeli war with Iran.

According to the report, economic ties between the two countries grew closer in 2018, after the US pullout from the Iran deal — at Israel’s urging — caused the agreement to collapse. A year earlier, a group of Arab states, including some of Qatar’s neighbors in the Gulf, had severed relations with it due to its support for Islamist groups.

In 2020, Iranian state media reported on warming relations between the two countries, including a visit by the emir of Qatar to Tehran. Iranian officials have also visited Qatar. During the 2020 visit, according to Iran’s IRNA news agency, then-supreme leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
called for their economic ties to grow closer.

Kan, citing the foreign intelligence report, said that trade between Qatar and Iran grew beginning in 2018, particularly in terms of energy, which Iran began to supply to Qatar.

Qatar has also supplied Iran with weapons material, according to the report, including so-called dual-use items that can be used for civilian or military purposes. These include hydrogen and other materials that can be used for rocket and drone fuel as well as aluminum and engine parts to be used in the manufacture of drones.

During this year’s Iran war, Tehran attacked Israel and countries throughout the region with missiles and drones. Multiple Iranian strikes hit Qatar, including an attack on its major Ras Laffan natural gas facility in March.

In 2024, according to the report, the governors of the two countries’ banks reached an agreement to unfreeze Iranian funds held in Qatar, though the United States, then under the Biden administration, blocked the agreement from taking effect.

Kan said that Iran is due to receive that money under the agreement now being negotiated between the US and Iran.
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