Foreign intel report said to show Qatar aiding Iran economically, militarily for years |
A report by a foreign intelligence agency shows how Qatar has aided Iran economically and militarily for years, including by providing rocket fuel and material to build drones, according to a Tuesday report.
The Kan public broadcaster reported that the cooperation expanded in 2018, when US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement signed three years earlier, and continued following the Hamas-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 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........