Iran says Hamas chief killed by 'short-range projectile' – Higher Kashmir
Tehran, Aug 4: Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has mentioned that Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by a “short-range projectile loaded with an virtually 7-kg warhead”.
“Given the carried out investigations, the terrorist operation has been carried out by means of firing from outdoors the visitors’ residence a short-range projectile loaded with an virtually 7 kg warhead, inflicting an intense explosion,” the IRGC mentioned on Saturday in its third assertion about Haniyeh’s assassination in an alleged Israeli assault within the Iranian capital Tehran, in keeping with the armed drive’s official information outlet Sepah Information.
The assertion added the “terrorist” assault had been designed and carried out by Israel with the US authorities’s help, Xinhua information company reported.
The IRGC harassed that “the revenge for Haniyeh’s blood might be particular,” including the “adventurist and terrorist” Israel would obtain a “decisive response to this crime, which is a harsh punishment, on the acceptable time and place and with the suitable high quality”.
Haniyeh, who had been invited to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday, was killed alongside along with his bodyguard early Wednesday when their residence in Tehran was hit.
