Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said in a statement that Israel “has prepared the ground for severe punishment with this action.”
Iranian officials are condemning what they say was an Israeli strike on Tehran that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Palestinian militant organization Hamas and Iran's Revolutionary Guard issued separate statements confirming the death of the longtime political leader of Hamas early Wednesday and blamed Israel, which has not yet commented on Haniyeh's death. CNBC has reached out to Israel's foreign ministry for comment.
Haniyeh served as the chief of Hamas' politburo and was seen as a more relatively moderate figure within the organization as he led cease-fire negotiations and was the face of the group's regional diplomatic efforts. He was made the head of Hamas' political wing in 2017 before moving to Qatar in exile in 2019.
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