Following Hamas's denial that the attack on October 7 was "one of the responses to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani," Ramazan Sharif, the spokesperson for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, clarified his statements. He spoke to the Qatari newspaper "Al-Arabi Al-Jadid" and explained, "My remarks about the motives were misinterpreted. I did not state that the operation was carried out as a revenge for the killing of Qasem Soleimani. I merely mentioned that one of the outcomes was a form of retaliation for the assassination." (Lior Ben Ari)