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After Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz officially confirmed the elimination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, Tehran expressed fury. Iran called it a “brazen act.”

In an official letter sent yesterday on Tuesday by the Iranian ambassador to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the Iranian side declared the legitimacy of the retaliatory missile strikes. “This brazen act highlights Israel’s role in terrorism and gives legitimacy to Iran’s response on October 1, 2024,” the letter said.

Let us recall that on Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed that Israel had eliminated Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Hamas political bureau, and threatened that the Houthi leaders could be next.

“We will deal a serious blow to the Houthis, damage their strategic infrastructure and destroy their leaders – just as we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar and Nasrallah in Tehran, Gaza and Lebanon. We will do the same in Hodeidah and Sanaa,” said the Minister of Defense.

In July, Hamas said that Ismail Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli air strike in Tehran, where he had arrived to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s new president.

According to a statement by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the house where Haniyeh was staying was attacked. The Guardian Corps claimed that the Hamas leader was killed by a short-range missile fired from abroad into the area where he was staying in Tehran. It is also alleged that the assassination was carried out by Israel with the support of the “criminal American government”, and Iran promised a “violent response” at the appropriate time and place.

Cursor previously wrote that two Mossad agents revealed additional details about the operation to blow up pagers in Lebanon.