Iran Reveals Details of the Murder of Hamas Leader
Yemenis march in Sanaa and Marib to protest the killing of Hamas leader, Aug. 2, 2024. Photo: X/ @HoyPalestina
August 3, 2024 Hour: 11:21 am
Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed on Wednesday, when their residence in Tehran was hit.
On Saturday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported that a shell with a 7-kilogram warhead killed Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Resistance Movement (Hamas).
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“The assassination of Ismail Haniyeh was designed and executed by the Zionist regime with the support of the criminal US government,” the IRGC said.
The shell hit a guesthouse in Tehran, causing significant destruction and killing Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards.
“Revenge for the martyr Ismail Haniya is inevitable and the Zionist adventurist and terrorist regime will receive severe retaliation for this crime at the appropriate time, place and manner,” the IRGC pointed out.
On Friday, Iranian Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani exchanged views on the assassination of Haniyeh with officials from the European Union and Jordan.
In two separate phone calls with Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs, and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Bagheri Kani warned about the political and security ramifications of the “crime” of violating Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the attack, stressing that Tehran would use its right to self-defense to punish Israel.
He told Borrell that Israel had violated regional and international peace and stability, as well as Iran’s national security, adding Iran would definitely use its “inherent and legitimate right to self-defense to punish” Israel.
The top Iranian diplomat pointed to the emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council held on the issue at Tehran’s request in New York on Wednesday, denouncing some European states’ move of taking the U.S. side in preventing the council from condemning the Hamas chief’s assassination.
In his phone call with Safadi, Bagheri Kani said Iran would undoubtedly enforce the law and seek justice against Israel without any compromise. He said Iran had proposed to hold an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to discuss the recent developments and take action against Israel, calling on Amman to support Tehran’s proposal.
The Jordanian foreign minister backed Iran’s initiative to convene an emergency OIC meeting, while condemning the “Israeli crime” of assassinating Haniyeh in the Iranian territory and its violation of Iran’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Safadi also called for efforts to prevent the widening of the scopes of the conflict in the region.
Haniyeh, who had been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday, was killed along with his bodyguard early Wednesday when their residence in Tehran was hit.
TeleSUR/ JF Sources: IRNA – Xinhua
