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Yaniyeh, whose bodyguard was also killed, was in Iranian capital Tehran for the swearing-in ceremony of the new President of Iran.
Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Islamist group Hamas that runs the Palestinian territory of Gaza, has been ‘assassinated’ in Iran’s Tehran, a Hamas statement confirmed.
The confirmation by Hamas came after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards informed about the ‘martyrdom’ of the group’s top leader.
“With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and combatants of the Resistant Front and the noble nation of Iran, this this morning [Wednesday] the residence of Mr. Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred,” the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps) statement read.
