In response to the assassination of Ismaïl Haniyeh, political leader of Hamas, the supreme Iranian guide Ali Khamenei promised this Wednesday a response against Israel.
“With this act, the criminal and terrorist Zionist regime has prepared the ground for severe punishment for itself, and we consider that it is our duty to avenge the blood of Haniyeh which was shed on the territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said in a statement published by the official news agency Irna.
In this wake, Iran decreed three days of national mourning after the assassination of Ismaïl Haniyeh, killed in Tehran during a shot charged Israel. “The Islamic Republic of Iran announced three days of national mourning following the martyrdom of Ismaïl Haniyeh,” the Iranian government said in a statement.
The political leader of Hamas Ismaïl Haniyeh was killed in a strike in Tehran, announced the guards of the revolution in Iran and the Palestinian Islamist movement, at war against Israel in the Gaza Strip. He had just participated in the nomination of the new Iranian president.
