Political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in an attack on Hamas office in Tehran, says Iran’s Revolutionary Guard CorpsSee all our Middle East crisis coverageIsrael has yet to make any comment on Ismail Haniyeh’s killing but in its statement Hamas accused it of responsibility. Associated Press reports that analysts on Iranian state television have also begun blaming Israel for the attack. The agency writes:Israel itself did not immediately comment but it often doesn’t when it comes to assassinations carried out by their Mossad intelligence agency.
Israel is suspected of running a years-long assassination campaign targeting Iranian nuclear scientists and others associated with its atomic program.In 2020, a top Iranian military nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, was killed by a remote-controlled machine gun while traveling in a car outside Tehran. Continue reading…
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Author : Helen Livingstone
Publish date : 2024-07-31 05:33:21
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