Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran by a short-range missile with a warhead weighing about seven kilograms, Iran's Revolutionary Guard said in a statement Saturday, vowing “severe” revenge.
Tehran's revenge for the attack will be “severe and (taken) at the appropriate time, place and manner,” Iran's Revolutionary Guard said in a statement, quoted by Reuters.
In late July, Hamas Political Bureau Deputy Chairman Khalil Al-Hajja reported that Ismail Haniyeh had been killed in a “direct hit.” A “rocket missile” was used, the Hamas official said.
Haniyeh was in the capital at the time of the attack Iran on the occasion of the inauguration of the new president of this country, Masud Peshehkian.
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