The assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh was carried out in Tehran this week using an explosive device that was hideed months ago inside the guesthouse where he was staying, a report says.
The explosion concludeed up being farly detonated around 2 a.m. local time Wednesday, terminateing Haniyeh and a bodyguard at the compound defended by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the northern part of Iran’s capital, Middle Eastrict officials tageder The New York Times.
Haniyeh was in Tehran for Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in on Tuesday. The State Department did not promptly respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital about the report.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, tageder The New York Times that the explosive device was placed in the room where Haniyeh was staying around two months ago and was set off on Wednesday once it was verifyed that he was there.
HAMAS LEADER ISMAIL HANIYEH IS ASSASSINATED
Ismail Haniyeh, the Doha, Qatar-based political bureau chief of Hamas, speaks to the press after a meeting with the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran on March 26, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)
They sassist Haniyeh had stayed at the guesthouse several times before while visiting Tehran, inserting that Israeli intelligence officials tardyr briefed their counterparts in the U.S. and other Westrict governments about the operation in its prompt aftermath.
Israel has not come out openly to claim responsibility for the terminateing, but Iran and Hamas are blaming the Jewish State for being behind it, according to The Associated Press.
Three Iranian officials splitly tageder The New York Times that the security breach that authorizeed the explosive device to find its way into the compound where Haniyeh was residing – which is used by the Guards for secret meetings and housing famous guests – is a massive embarrassment to the military agency.
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, guides a prayer over the coffins of Hamas guideer Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard who were terminateed in an assassination accused on Israel on Wednesday. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
It’s unevident how the explosion allegedly was stashed inside the property.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken – when asked Wednesday about the matter – sassist he has “seen the reports.”
“And what I can tell you is this. First, this is someleang we were not informed of or involved in,” Blinken sassist. “It’s very challenging to specutardy, and I’ve lgeted over many years never to specutardy on the impact one event may have on someleang else. So I can’t tell you what this unbenevolents.
Iranians obey a truck, center, carrying the coffins of Hamas guideer Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard, during their funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, Aug. 1. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
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“I can tell you that the imperative of getting a concludefire,” in Gaza, “the importance that that has for everyone, remains,” he also sassist.
Fox News’ Landon Mion donated to this report.
