IRGC: Stronger response awaits Israel for Hamas leader’s assassination
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has vowed to respond to the Israeli regime’s assassination of senior Hamas’ leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital Tehran with a reprisal that would be stronger than the previous time when the Islamic Republic retaliated against Tel Aviv’s aggression.
“The usurping Zionist regime committed a great crime by assassinating martyr Haniyeh, and will be punished more severely than the last time,” the Corps’ Deputy Commander Brigadier General Ali Fadavi said on Monday.
He asserted that the punishment would come “at the proper time and in the right place.”
“It is us who will decide the time and place of the revenge,” the commander noted, adding, “It will definitely take place.”
Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement’s former Political Bureau chief, was assassinated in a targeted killing operation in Tehran late last month. He was in the Iranian capital to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The Israeli regime has denied responsibility, but Iran has held it squarely responsible for the atrocity and vowed to serve it with a harsh response.
Earlier this year, the IRGC targeted the occupied Palestinian territories with a barrage of drones and missiles in a set of retaliatory strikes dubbed Operation True Promise.
The operation had come after the regime carried out terrorist airstrikes on the consular section of Iran's Embassy in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing two of the Corps’ generals as well as five of their accompanying officers.
Still addressing the issue of Iran’s pending response over Haniyeh’s assassination, Fadavi said, “There is such turmoil in the occupied territories” as the regime was awaiting the prospect “day and night.”
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