Hamas confirmed on its official Telegram account the Iranian TV report that Haniyeh, along with one of his guards, was killed in the attack.
According to a statement from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, "With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the combatants of the Resistance Front and the noble nation of Iran, this morning [Wednesday] the residence of Mr. Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred."
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Hamas has blamed Israel for the attack. Israel previously pledged to kill Haniyeh and other architects of the Palestinian terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state that killed over 1,200 civilians and saw over 250 others taken hostage.
According to the Jerusalem Post, Haniyeh was in the country for the swearing-in of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. According to the outlet, an IDF airstrike hit his Gaza home in November while Hamas terrorists were using it as part of their infrastructure. Other members of Hamas leadership are using his home in Qatar.
The assassination came less than 24 hours after Israel eliminated senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an airstrike. The terrorist leader was involved in a strike on an Israeli-Druze community in Golan Heights that left 12 children and teenagers dead over the weekend as well as the 1983 bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut that left 241 US servicemembers dead.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
