The plan originally was to kill Ismail Haniyeh in May when he was at the funeral of Iran’s president, but that was changed because of the large crowds and the high possibility of failure.
Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in three separate rooms of a building where a Hamas leader was staying,The original plan was to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the political head of the Palestinian terror group, in May when he attended the funeral of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s former president.
The operatives are then said to have snuck out of the country but had a source still in Iran. At 2am on Wednesday, they detonated the explosives from abroad in the room where Haniyeh was staying.“They are now certain that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi protection unit,” an official within the IRGC toldfrom Tehran, referring to an IRGC unit responsible for the safety of high-ranking officials.
There is now an internal blame game taking over the IRGC, with different sectors accusing each other of the failure, the first official said. Ali Younisi, Iran’s former intelligence minister, expressed concerns in a 2020 interview, saying, “All the officials of the Islamic Republic should be worried about their lives.”
During his election campaign, he had distanced himself from previous provocative policies of the Islamic Republic and promised to restore Iran’s position on the international stage through dialogue. “No unharmed brain can accept that this happened by accident, especially on Mr Pezeshkian’s first day in office,” he said. “He may have to go to war with Israel in his first few days in office, and it’s all because of the IRGC.”
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