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National Interest magazine questioned Iran’s denials of the murder of the second man in the Al Qaeda network on its soil at the hands of Israeli agents last August.

The magazine provided intelligence that supported a decades-long relationship between Al Qaeda and Iran.

Iran was quick to deny US reports supporting the murder of Al-Qaeda’s second man, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, nicknamed “Abu Muhammad Al-Masry”, and his daughter Maryam, the widow of Hamzah bin Laden, when of the Israeli strike, noting that the deceased was a history teacher named Habib Daoud. . While US intelligence officials confirmed that Habib Daoud was a pseudonym Iranian officials gave Masri.

James Phillips, the author of the article in American National Interest magazine, believes that Tehran’s rapid denial is due to two reasons: the first is an attempt to eliminate the terrorism charge, Ahmed Abdullah, and the second is to avoid the embarrassment of suffering a heavy Israeli strike on Iranian soil.

National interest Astdlt, the existence of secret ties between Iran and al-Qaeda long ago, several sources, including the commission of inquiry report ten atheist attacks in September.

The magazine said in its lengthy report titled “Why Did Iran Hide Al Qaeda’s Second Man In Tehran?” Al-Masry fled to Iran in 2003 with other senior leaders after the fall of the Taliban regime allied with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

At the time, Iran denied the presence of Al Qaeda leaders on its soil, before later claiming they were under arrest or house arrest, while they were free. and facilitated their travel between Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the magazine.

Al-Masry is accused of having organized the double attack that targeted the American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, which killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.

Sudan is also accused of complicity in these attacks, on the pretext that it hosted al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, and for these reasons it has been placed on the American terrorism list.

In late 1991 or 1992, Al Qaeda and Iranian agents in Sudan agreed to cooperate in attacking Israeli and American targets. Shortly after, according to the magazine, senior al-Qaeda leaders traveled to Iran as well as Lebanon for training, with the help of the Iranian Quds Force, which was led by General Qassem Soleimani. , who was killed in a US strike near Baghdad International Airport last January.

The Quds Force, which supports attacks on US interests in Afghanistan and Iraq, also participated in the 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, according to the National Interest.

The 9/11 Commission did not rule out that Al-Qaeda had aided Iranian-backed “Saudi Hezbollah” terrorists in the June 1996 attack that killed 19 members of the military. air in the residential complex of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

And U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that the 2003 terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia was also planned by al Qaeda leaders in Iran, according to the Washington Post.