A Hamas official rejected news reports in the Western media that Hamas’s top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed by a planted device that was smuggled into his room in Tehran a few months earlier and claimed that he was instead killed by an “airborne projectile.”
The European Union last week called for countries in the Middle East to “exert maximum restraint and avoid any further escalation” after Israel assassinated the political leader of Hamas in Tehran.
Unlike the last time Israel escalated war with Iran—when it bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria—Tehran has reportedly rejected calls from the U.S. and regional countries to “temper” its response to Tel Aviv’s recent assassination campaign that claimed the life of Hamas’s top political official in Tehran, according to a report.
Iran accused the U.S. of giving Israel its approval to carry out the assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran after the inauguration of Masoud Pezeshkian.