Sunday 04 August 2024Year 1959 Number 12316 / By: Kayhan
Sunday 04 August 2024Year 1959 Number 12316 / By: Kayhan International
💠IRGC: Haniyeh Assassinated by ‘Short-Range Projectile’💠
TEHRAN -- Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated earlier this week by a “short-range projectile” launched from outside his residence in Tehran, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Saturday.
In a statement, the IRGC said that based on investigations conducted so far, the attack against Haniyeh “was carried out by firing a short-range projectile carrying about 7kg of explosive materials and launched from outside the guests residency”.
It said the occupying regime of Israel will receive “a harsh punishment in due time and place” for Haniyeh’s assassination, which it said was “supported by the criminal government” of the United States.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied a role, while the U.S. has said it “was not aware of or involved in” Haniyeh’s assassination.
The Palestinian leader and his bodyguard were martryed in a guest house in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday.
Haniyeh had gone to the Iranian capital to attend the inauguration of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Israel is on edge fearing widely-expected retaliation from Iran and Hezbollah. Video footage from the Middle East Eye shot on the streets of Tel Aviv showed a tense public mood.
One woman said she “didn’t feel safe” and cancelled her plans on Wednesday morning after Haniyeh’s assassination. Another woman told the outlet people were aware it could cause a larger war.
“People are tense, sure,” said Ori Goldberg, a Tel Aviv-based expert on Israeli politics. “There are fewer people on the street, there’s a general sense of anxiety,” he said.
“I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen now. I think everyone’s trying to work out what the response will be or where it’s going to come from,” Israeli pollster and former Netanyahu aid Mitchell Barak said.
Critics of Netanyahu both within the occupied territory and abroad have been quick to suggest the high-profile nature of Haniyeh’s assassination may be a ploy by the embattled prime minister to protract and escalate the conflict to avoid the collapse of his fragile coalition regime and the holding of early elections.
For now on the streets of Tel Aviv, “there’s the anxiety,” Goldberg said. “But there’s also a sense of resignation. There’s this sense that this is Israel’s fate.”
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that “severe punishment” would be meted out to Israel following the assassination.
“We view it as our duty to avenge his martyrdom which happened within the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the Leader said.
Clément Therme, a research associate at the International Institute of Iranian Studies and lecturer at Montpellier’s Paul-Valéry University, said, “There will be a response.”
For Iran, the affront was twofold: the capital was targeted on the very day the country inaugurated its new president, Massoud Pezeshkian.
Continued in the next post.....
💠IRGC: Haniyeh Assassinated by ‘Short-Range Projectile’💠
TEHRAN -- Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated earlier this week by a “short-range projectile” launched from outside his residence in Tehran, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Saturday.
In a statement, the IRGC said that based on investigations conducted so far, the attack against Haniyeh “was carried out by firing a short-range projectile carrying about 7kg of explosive materials and launched from outside the guests residency”.
It said the occupying regime of Israel will receive “a harsh punishment in due time and place” for Haniyeh’s assassination, which it said was “supported by the criminal government” of the United States.
Israel has neither confirmed nor denied a role, while the U.S. has said it “was not aware of or involved in” Haniyeh’s assassination.
The Palestinian leader and his bodyguard were martryed in a guest house in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday.
Haniyeh had gone to the Iranian capital to attend the inauguration of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian.
Israel is on edge fearing widely-expected retaliation from Iran and Hezbollah. Video footage from the Middle East Eye shot on the streets of Tel Aviv showed a tense public mood.
One woman said she “didn’t feel safe” and cancelled her plans on Wednesday morning after Haniyeh’s assassination. Another woman told the outlet people were aware it could cause a larger war.
“People are tense, sure,” said Ori Goldberg, a Tel Aviv-based expert on Israeli politics. “There are fewer people on the street, there’s a general sense of anxiety,” he said.
“I don’t think anyone knows what’s going to happen now. I think everyone’s trying to work out what the response will be or where it’s going to come from,” Israeli pollster and former Netanyahu aid Mitchell Barak said.
Critics of Netanyahu both within the occupied territory and abroad have been quick to suggest the high-profile nature of Haniyeh’s assassination may be a ploy by the embattled prime minister to protract and escalate the conflict to avoid the collapse of his fragile coalition regime and the holding of early elections.
For now on the streets of Tel Aviv, “there’s the anxiety,” Goldberg said. “But there’s also a sense of resignation. There’s this sense that this is Israel’s fate.”
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that “severe punishment” would be meted out to Israel following the assassination.
“We view it as our duty to avenge his martyrdom which happened within the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the Leader said.
Clément Therme, a research associate at the International Institute of Iranian Studies and lecturer at Montpellier’s Paul-Valéry University, said, “There will be a response.”
For Iran, the affront was twofold: the capital was targeted on the very day the country inaugurated its new president, Massoud Pezeshkian.
Continued in the next post.....
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