Tehran: Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran in Iran’s capital, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Wednesday, Press TV reported.
In a statement to Meher News Agency the IRGC said that Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed after their residence was targeted in Tehran.
“With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the combatants of the Resistance Front and the noble nation of Iran, this morning (Wednesday) the residence of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas , was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred,” the statement read.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, held a meeting with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
