IRGC reveals plan made to assassinate former Hamas leader in Iran

TEHRAN, Nov. 03 (YPA) – Spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini, revealed on Monday that there was no sabotage involved in the assassination of the former Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Iran.

In a news statement, Naeini explained that the assassination was carried out with a missile launched from a specific distance, which directly struck the window of building that Haniyeh was lived inside while speaking on the phone from the same direction the missile was fired from, adding that Haniyeh’s location was tracked by monitoring his phone and tablet.

He indicated that the National Security Council meeting concluded that a definite response to the assassination of Haniyeh was necessary, and that the timing of the response was left to the armed forces.

“There was disagreement regarding the location from which the operation should be launched, with some arguing that the response should originate from within the resistance axis, but ultimately a unified decision was reached regarding its execution,” Naeini clarified.

Haniyeh was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on July 31 of last year in Iran, following his participation in the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.

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