Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was eliminated at his residence in Tehran. A statement by the IRGC’s Public Relations Department said the attack was carried out early Wednesday.
Al-Mayadeen, a news outlet affiliated with Hezbollah, said the Hamas leader was assassinated with a “missile fired from abroad,” citing an unnamed Iranian official. The official called it an act of “aggression against Iran” which “necessitates a decisive response.”
Interestingly, Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, had tweeted, “The Israeli Air Force is about to demonstrate its range tonight,” hours before Haniyeh’s assassination.
Goldberg later tweeted, If you can hit a radar next to a nuclear site, you can hit a house in Tehran too. The ayatollah has no clothes.
The Israeli military refused to comment on the report of the demise of Ismail Haniyeh. The IDF told CNN that it “does not comment on reports in foreign media.”
As EurAsian Times reported earlier, the Israel Air Force (IAF) recently executed a long-range mission against the Houthi militia using Israel’s F-35 stealth fighters 1700 km away.
Israel launched a retaliatory attack against the Houthi militia. The strikes were conducted against Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah. The F-35 stealth fighters were tasked with the operation to strike the Houthis. Analysts emphasized that the operation was significant as the target struck was 1,700 kilometers from Israel and called it an indirect warning to Iran.
The F-35s traveled 1,700 kilometers during the daring operations, while Iran is located approximately 1,500 kilometers from Israel.
