With “promises” of revenge, this time from the leaders of Iran on whose territory Ali Khamenei was assassinated by Israel, the dispute continues that threatens a generalized conflict in the Middle East.
Her revenge assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, it is “Tehran’s duty” because it happened in its capital Iran, Iran’s supreme leader said on Wednesday
“With this act, the Zionist criminal and terrorist regime has prepared the ground for a heavy punishment for it, and we consider it our duty to avenge the blood shed on the soil of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said in a statement broadcast by the Iranian news agency Irna.
“They will regret the cowardly action”
Iran “will defend its territorial integrity, dignity, honor and pride and make the occupying terrorist forces regret this cowardly act” of killing Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, its president said. Iran Massoud Pezeskianas reported by Iranian media.
“Blood will not be wasted”
The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Mr Nasser Kananiclaimed today that the blood of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya, who was assassinated earlier in Tehran, “will not be wasted.”
“The testimony of Haniya in Tehran will strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond” of Iran, Palestine “and the resistance,” Mr. Kanaani said, according to Iranian state media.
The secretary of the political office of Hamas, Ismail Haniya, killed in a raid in Tehran, announced the Palestinian Islamist movement, accusing Israel, with which it has been at war in the Gaza Strip for nearly ten months, of murdering him.
Three revenge attacks by Israel
A few twenty-four hours earlier, Israel’s leadership had also vowed revenge when last Saturday Hezbollah fired rockets into the Golan Heights, killing at least 12 children.
This was followed by the launch of an unmanned Israeli drone on the border with Lebanon, resulting in 2 deaths and three injuries.
A little later, Israel also struck Beirut, targeting the commander of Hezbollah.
His third revenge strike came today when the head of Hamas’ political office, Ismail Haniya, was killed in an airstrike in Iran. The 62-year-old leader of Hamas was based in Doha. He attended the swearing-in ceremony of the new Iranian president, the reformer Massoud Pezheskian, in Tehran yesterday Tuesday.
According to Iranian media, he was murdered at around 02:00 AM while he was in a “special residence for war veterans” in the northern part of the Iranian capital.
Hamas: Zionist invasion
“The brother, the leader, the mujahid (s.b. “holy warrior”) Ismail Haniya, the head of the movement, was killed in a Zionist raid on his home in Tehran after attending the inauguration of the new president” of the Islamic Republic of Pezeskian, Hamas said in a statement.
#Ayatollah #Khamenei #duty #avenge #assassination #Haniya #Israel
