As replica protests sprang up at campuses in the UK and Canada, there was speculation about what level of coordination was going on, and who was paying for these often significant-sized protests. By the following July, US director of national intelligence Avril Haines released a statement in which she gave her assessment that the Iranian government, which was the prime backer, financier, and trainer of Hamas, was also “providing financial support to protesters.”27 Iranian agents had already been caught in 2022 attempting to assassinate former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former national
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