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Iran’s parliament speaker has urged Iranian authorities to take a deterrent measure against the Israeli regime to preserve the country’s national interests following the assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Tehran.
Iran will give a “regrettable and painful” response to the Zionist regime’s assassination of several resistance fighters and leaders in recent days, including the political head of the Palestinian resistance movement in Tehran, the chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee says.
A member of Iran’s Expediency Council says the Islamic Republic must give a decisive response to the Israeli regime over the recent terrorist attack that killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran but it must also take care not to fall into Netanyahu’s trap.
A member of Iran's Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says one scenario regarding the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas's political bureau, is that Israel attacked Haniyeh's residence using a drone launched from the second station of Tochal Heights in northern Tehran.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) announced in a statement on Saturday that Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed by “a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kgs (15.4 lbs) accompanied by a severe explosion from outside his residence" in Tehran.
The body of Milad Bidi, one of the military advisors of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) in Syria and Lebanon, was buried on Saturday morning in a grand ceremony at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery in southern Tehran.
The assassination of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ political chief Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday in Tehran in an Israeli plot just a day after Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration ceremony, casts a pall over the president’s economic agenda amid spiraling tensions, an Iranian daily warns.
In a message to Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the commander of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, warned that “the enemies of the nation, especially the Zionist gang and its supporters”, should expect revenge from the resistance groups in West Asia for the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander.
Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri, in a phone conversation with the European Union foreign policy chief, called for the bloc's pressure against Israel to prevent the continuation of the regime's crimes.
The foreign ministers of Jordan and Algeria have condemned Israel's move to assassinate Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Palestinian movement, Hamas, and the breach violation of Iran's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The lights of the Tabiat Bridge in northern Tehran turned red as a sign of blood vengeance for the martyr Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of the Hamas movement.
Following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh the leader of Hamas in Tehran, the acting Iranian foreign minister, in a telephone call with António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, said Iran will not forgo its inherent right to self-defense and to take reciprocal action to punish Israel.
Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has appointed former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as the Vice-President for Strategic Affairs.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran's Army stressed that the Zionist regime's crime in assassinating martyr Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the Palestinian movement Hamas, will definitely not go unanswered.
The newly-elected Iranian president says the assassination of Hamas’ political chief in Tehran by the Israeli regime will not dent Iran’s determination to support the resistance movement.
Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri has called for an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and collective condemnation by the regional countries of Israel's assassination of Hamas political head Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
Masoud Pezeshkian, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, referred to China as a strategic partner in Iran's foreign policy and emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran will not forget China's assistance in countering the oppressive US sanctions.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a letter to Iran’s newly-elected President Massoud Pezeshkian on the expansion of bilateral ties between the two major powerhouses in the region, the kingdom’s SPA news agency reported.
The Israeli regime has assassinated an Iranian military advisor in an air strike on southern Beirut in Lebanon which also killed a top commander with Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah.
Massive crowds of mourners in Tehran took part on Thursday morning in the funeral procession of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated along with his security guard a day earlier in an Israeli air strike in the Iranian capital.
Senior EU diplomat Enrique Mora and Secretary of Iran’s High Council of Strategic Relations Abbas Araqchi have held talks over different aspects of relations between Iran and Europe.
In the wake of the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran has underscored its inalienable right to respond appropriately to this "brazen act against its sovereignty and territorial integrity."
The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Israeli regime will be harshly punished for assassinating senior Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard in the Iranian capital Tehran.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian says the assassinated leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was a “partner in Iran’s sorrows and joys,” adding it will make "the occupiers regret the terrorist attack."
