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Iranwire – Iran’s mission to the United Nations said Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination would be retaliated with “special operations.”
“The response to an assassination will indeed be special operations – harder and intended to instil deep regret in the perpetrator,” the mission said.
Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, was killed in Tehran on Wednesday along with one of his bodyguards.
Haniyeh, the most senior Hamas official outside of Gaza and a key figure in hostage negotiations, was struck by an “airborne projectile” at 2 am local time.
The incident occurred when he stayed in a special veterans’ residence in northern Tehran.
The Hamas leader was in the Iranian capital to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, which drew other prominent figures from the so-called “Axis of Resistance.”
Senior Iranian officials have pointed to “Zionists” as responsible for the killing, while analysts on Iranian state television explicitly accused Israel.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has vowed punishment for Israel after Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was killed in Tehran.
In response to the killing of Haniyeh, Khamenei declared that Israel had “prepared the ground for severe punishment.”
“With this action, the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime has paved the way for its own severe punishment,” said Khamenei.
He added, “We view it as our duty to avenge his martyrdom, which occurred within the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
