Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran, Iran says

Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated successful Tehran, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said aboriginal Wednesday. No 1 instantly claimed work for the assassination but suspicion fell connected Israel, which has vowed to termination Haniyeh and different leaders of Hamas implicit the group’s Oct. 7 onslaught connected Israel that killed 1,200 radical and saw immoderate 250 others taken hostage.

Haniyeh was successful Tehran to be Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremonial Tuesday. Iran gave nary details connected however Haniyeh was killed, and the Guard said the onslaught was nether investigation.

Haniyeh near the Gaza Strip successful 2019 and had lived successful exile successful Qatar. The apical Hamas person successful Gaza is Yehya Sinwar, who masterminded the Oct. 7 onslaught sparked the latest Israel-Hamas war.

The evident assassination comes astatine a precarious time, arsenic U.S. President Joe Biden’s medication has tried to propulsion Hamas and Israel to hold to astatine slightest a impermanent cease-fire and hostage merchandise deal.

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Apparent assassination of Hamas person comes astatine a precarious clip for Biden

CIA Director Bill Burns was successful Rome connected Sunday to conscionable with elder officials from Israel, Qatar and Egypt successful the latest circular of talks. Separately, Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa, is successful the portion for talks with U.S. partners.

There was nary contiguous absorption to the reports of Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh's assassination from the White House.

Analysts connected Iranian authorities tv instantly began blaming Israel for the attack.

Israel itself did not instantly remark but it often doesn’t erstwhile it comes to assassinations carried retired by their Mossad quality agency.