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Ismail Haniyeh, the top political leader of Hamas, was killed in Tehran early on Wednesday, Iranian officials said, as Hamas blamed Israel and accused it of carrying out a targeted assassination.Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Haniyeh, who was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iran’s new president, was targeted at his place of residence—without offering additional details.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council held a rare emergency meeting at the home of the country’s supreme leader, highlighting the seriousness of incident, the New York Timesabout Haniyeh’s death and wrote: “This is the right way to clean the world from this filth. No more imaginary ‘peace’/surrender agreements, no more mercy for these sons of death...The iron hand that will strike them is the one that will bring quiet and a little comfort, and strengthen our ability to live in peace.
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