Iran’s response to Haniyeh assassination to take Israel 'by surprise': UN mission
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations has said the country is to respond to the Israeli regime’s assassination of Hamas’s senior leader, which took place inside the Islamic Republic last month, in a time and manner that would take the regime "by surprise."
“Maybe when their (the Israelis’) eyes are on the sky and the radar screen, they are [going to be] surprised from the ground, and maybe a combination of the two,” the mission said in a statement on Wednesday.
Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement’s former Political Bureau chief, was assassinated in a targeted killing operation in Tehran on July 31. He was in the Iranian capital to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The mission said “Iran’s response should have two clear results.”
“First, it must punish the aggressor for terror and violation of Iran’s national sovereignty. Second, it should strengthen Iran’s deterrence power and bring the [Israeli] regime deep remorse to prevent any future aggression,” it added.
The statement, meanwhile, said “Iran’s response should also avoid a possible negative impact on a possible [Gaza] ceasefire.”
Earlier this month too, the mission had likewise said “we hope that our response will be completed on time and in a way that does not harm the possible ceasefire.”
It had, however, asserted at the same time that the Islamic Republic's right to retaliate had nothing to do with the issue of ongoing talks aimed at hammering out a truce in the Israeli regime’s October-present war on the Gaza Strip.
"Our national security and sovereignty have been violated during the recent terrorist act of the Israeli regime. We have the right to legitimate defense and this has nothing to do with the Gaza ceasefire," it had noted.
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