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Revenge is our duty and Israel has prepared a harsh punishment for itself by killing a dear guest in our home."
Iran demands a world where no Palestinian child's dreams are buried under the rubble of their home
During his inauguration ceremony, Pezeshkian spoke in support of Palestinians, saying Our reply will be there. At the right time and the right place. It is difficult for us to have our guest being targeted and assassinated on our soil,
On the one hand, Iranians are really irritated by these ongoing killings because this is not the first assassination to have happened in Iran,
Martyr Ismail Haniyeh was the voice of the Palestinian people all over the world,
If Israel and the US are smart, then they will take this victory image that they were looking for in order to get out of Gaza,
Because of unconditional US backing, Israel feels empowered to act as it sees fit and the latest manifestation of that
are the recent events in Beirut and Tehran ... Rahman told Al Jazeera Haniyeh was not considered a hardliner. He was a unifying man and he was ready to compromise. Now with his absence, [Israel] may need to deal with a hardliner person from the top [brass] of Hamas,
But assassinating Haniyeh in Tehran is a major blow to Iran’s self-esteem and not something that can be disregarded,
Counter-intuitively, some Israeli officials may say this [assassination] brings us closer to a ceasefire, because we have a victory narrative now,
What this attack does is it breathes new life into the Israel army’s high branch. They are saying, ‘Hey, we can still do stuff and we are not as incompetent as we appeared’,
[But] I don’t think Iran wants a major escalation,
US support [for Israel] is one of the main factors behind everything that has transpired since October 7, and the threat of regional war also stems from that,
[Israel’s attack] could provoke coordinated retaliation by Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq, using more sophisticated and lethal weapons,
Using his company WhatsApp, Israeli intelligence installed spyware on Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh phone via a WhatsApp message."
The supreme leader has stated that Iran must respond to this,
I think we should assume at a basic level that the proxies will respond,
The international community must work together to urgently prevent any actions that could push the entire Middle East over the edge, with a devastating impact on civilians,
There's no signs that an escalation is imminent. But I also said that we watch it very, very closely,
It can also attempt terror plots throughout the region and also elsewhere abroad, targeting Israeli diplomatic facilities and installations in those countries,