Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed by a bomb Israeli intelligence planted at an official guest residency in Tehran about two months ago, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and had stayed at the guest residence on previous visits. The Times report, which cited five Middle East officials, two Iranian officials, and one American, said the bomb was detonated remotely when it was confirmed Haniyeh was in a room at the guest house.
The explosion killed Haniyeh and his bodyguard at about 2:00 am local time. Hamas officials initially said a missile struck the building, but there was no sign of Israeli warplane activity in the area.
Axios also reported Haniyeh was killed by a bomb planted at the guest house in advance by the Israeli spy agency Mossad. The residency was heavily guarded by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC), and the assassination demonstrates the Mossad’s deep reach within the Islamic Republic.
Israel has a history of conducting covert attacks inside Iran, including assassinations with gunmen, small drone attacks, and similar operations involving explosives. Israel has been responsible for several explosions inside Iran’s Natanz civilian nuclear facility.
According to an Israeli media report from 2021, Israeli intelligence made sure a marble foundation that was used for centrifuges in Natanz was packed with explosives during construction. A bomb was detonated at the facility in April 2021, which was meant to sabotage indirect negotiations between the US and Iran that resumed around the same time.
The Israeli killing of Haniyeh was likely designed to sabotage both ceasefire negotiations with Hamas and any chances of the US and Iran engaging in sanctions relief. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is considered a moderate, pledged to work to get sanctions lifted in his inauguration speech.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has vowed Iran will take “revenge” for the assassination, and the Times reported that he has ordered a direct attack on Israel. The US is pledging to defend Israel from any attack that might come in response to the killing of Haniyeh or the strike in Beirut that killed a high-level Hezbollah commander.
So Israel kills the chief negotiator for the peace process in Iran, which is supposed to cause the US to continue the sanctions on Iran. How is that supposed to make sense?
Well, the billion and a half that we spent "protecting" Israel from its last attack on Iran didn't work that well against only 300 or so drones, UAVs and missiles. Nor has the two billion we've spent shelling Yemeni civilians (the main victims) stopped attacks on Israeli shipping.
We spend an awful lot on war, shouldn't we be better at it?
More likely the Mossad did not directly do this. It probably used either the Balochi insurgents or the M.E.K. cult group, who would more likely have access inside Iran.
Nah, you think MEK knows how to run a laser-level or hammer drill, or lay foundation? Them religious-cult nutbags only know killin' with AK's.
The Mossadi'i, however, half them probably got years of civil construction experience, lots of bulldozer hours from their time in the IDF "dealing with" Arab villages. THEM's the dudes with masonry and finishing-stone tickets.
But how could Mossad go undetected in Iran, especially at a guest house heavily guarded by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC)?
Two words :
"fake beards"
New information coming from Iran disputes the planned bomb theory.
This is why you need to vett your contractors by Yelp! reviews or the Better Islamic Business Bureau. The IRI using no-bid non-Union dodgey-as-all-Christ-they-don't-believe-in contractors or trades, is a recipe for DISASTER.
Israel keeps trying to ignite a war with Iran. While assuming that the US will back up Israel, because the Israelis are fully aware that they would lose that war without US help.
So the plan is basically for Israel to stage a proxy war against Iran, using the US as its proxy force.
Very clever of them, since it's just a flip on the game the US is playing with Russia in Ukraine.
But when the US attacks Iran, Russia is likely to back Iran. Then what?
And I don't believe that all this is just coming from Netanyahu's wish to stay out of criminal court. Israel is seriously pushing for a major war in the Middle East.
"But when the US attacks Iran is likely to back Iran." I'm dying to know who?
Thanks for pointing out my omission, now corrected. It would be Russia, of course.
Suppose it is "calling all jihadists" time. Shia and Sunni have bonded over the assassinations. Suppose the Taliban gets into the action. The caldron is boiling.
Iran needs to speed production of a couple of nukes. Israel has a bunch of them and may use them.
Nearly 40 years ago the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) attempted to assassinate members of the British government, including the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England. Five people were killed, including the Conservative MP Sir Anthony Berry; over thirty people were injured. Thatcher narrowly escaped uninjured. The bombing was a key moment in "the Troubles", the conflict in northern Ireland between unionists and republicans over the constitutional position of Northern Ireland, which took place between the late 1960s and 1998.
The IRA decided to assassinate Thatcher during the 1981 Irish hunger strike. Her stance against the return of Special Category Status to republican prisoners—the status that meant they were treated as political prisoners, rather than as criminals—meant the strike was not quickly settled, and ten prisoners died. After two years of planning, including reconnoitering the 1982 and 1983 Conservative Party Conferences, a long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by an IRA operative over three weeks before the 1984 conference. The IRA knew the hotel would be occupied by Thatcher and many British cabinet members.
Netanyahu is James Bond in a new James Bond movie. He slides his submarine through a labyrinth in a castle made of ice. The submarine falls from the sky without a parachute. He is deprived of oxygen for hours under an entire ocean… …Let me finish. …Okay, okay… IN THE END, HE KILLS A PEACE NEGOTIATOR.
THE SECOND ONE.
Pretty hideous, planting a bomb in a guest house in another country.
https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5046756-iran-arrests-dozens-search-haniyeh-killing-suspects
Israel is a Terrorist State, always has been, it was built on the blood of Palestinians, with the help of so called Democracies". Mossad is only successful because they have the backing of the UK, US, Germany, etc., who not only back Mossad, but endorse all the killings by the Zionist State of Israel. There is no doubt, that the Zionist are embedded everywhere and nobody has the courage to STOP them.
Israel is a Terrorist State, always has been, it was built on the blood of Palestinians, with the help of so called Democracies". Mossad is only successful because they have the backing of the UK, US, Germany, etc., who not only back Mossad, but endorse all the killings by the Zionist State of Israel. There is no doubt, that the Zionist are embedded everywhere and nobody has the courage to STOP them.
Nothing but glorification of a zionist paper for Israel…!