Israel Hits Ismail Haniyeh With Short-Range Missile: Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Israel killed Hamas’ political affairs chief Ismail Haniyeh using a ‘short-range projectile’.

According to the news agency AFP, the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement that “this terrorist act was carried out by firing a short-range projectile with a warhead weighing approximately seven kilograms from outside the residential area, which resulted in There was a loud explosion.’

According to the statement, Israel had “the help of the United States” in this attack.

Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of Wednesday while he was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of the new president, Masoud Al-Badzikian. Iran and Hamas have vowed to retaliate.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards reiterated their commitment that Ismail Haniyeh would be avenged and Israel would be ‘severely punished at the appropriate time, place and manner’.

Israel, which declined to comment on Ismail Haniyeh’s death, earlier struck a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, killing a senior commander of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.

Israel blamed Hezbollah for the weekend’s deadly rocket attack on its occupied Golan Heights.

The deaths are the latest in a series of major incidents that have heightened regional tensions in the wake of Israeli attacks on Gaza.

As a result of the Israeli aggression in Gaza, Iran-backed militant groups in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen have become involved.

After the murder of Ismail Haniyeh, the demand for revenge has spread in Iran. The ultra-conservative Kayhan newspaper wrote on Saturday that countermeasures are expected to be “more diverse, larger in scope than it would be impossible to stop.”

This section contains related reference points (Related Nodes field).

An op-ed in the newspaper said, “This time Tel Aviv, Haifa, strategic centers and especially the residences of officials involved in fresh crimes will be among the targets.”

Iranian Acting Foreign Minister’s phone call to his Pakistani counterpart

Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement issued today from Islamabad that Iran’s Acting Foreign Minister Ali Baki Khani telephoned Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar and expressed his condolences to the Iranian nation over the killing of Ismail Haniyeh. Informed?

In response, Ishaq Dar expressed the same sentiments and said that Pakistan condemns the situation in Gaza and the killing of Ismail Haniya in the strongest possible terms.

“This is a heinous act which has been unanimously condemned by the National Assembly of Pakistan.”

Iran’s acting foreign minister requested Ishaq Dar to attend the extraordinary meeting of the OIC convened at the level of foreign ministers.

According to the statement, Ishaq Dar said that Pakistan supports the convening of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation by Iran.

He confirmed that Pakistan will participate in this important meeting.