Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vows harsh punishment for Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. He said that it was Iran’s duty to avenge the assassination of Ham’s leader. Local media reported that Iran has announced three days of public mourning across the country for Haniyeh. 

Earlier, the political head of Hamas, Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran today. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Haniyeh was killed alongside one of his bodyguards at his residence in the Iranian capital while he was in the town to attend Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian’s swearing-in ceremony yesterday.