Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Assassinated in Tehran Attack
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Wednesday morning that Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed when their residence was struck in Tehran.
The statement indicated that the attack is under investigation, with results expected to be announced later in the day.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian.
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas issued a statement on the assassination of its top leader.
Haniyeh “passed as a result of a treacherous Zionist raid,” the movement said in a statement on Wednesday.
“The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns the sons of our great Palestinian people, the Arab and Islamic nation, and all the free people of the world,” it said.
Mousa Abu Marzook, a member of Hamas’ political bureau denounced the assassination as a “cowardly action” that would not go unanswered.
