BREAKING: Top Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Killed Inside Iran

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The Islamic Republic of Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, announced on Tuesday night that Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas, was targeted and killed inside of Iran.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said that Haniyeh was killed in the country’s capital city of Tehran, where he was attending the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, The New York Times reported. They were reportedly targeted at a residence.

“The residence of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political office of Hamas Islamic Resistance, was hit in Tehran, and as a result of this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred,” the IRGC said in a statement.

Haniyeh’s death comes after Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist group, launched an unprecedented terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, which resulted in more than 1,200 people being murdered.

While it’s not immediately clear who killed Haniyeh, it was publicly known that Israel was hunting down all Hamas officials, including its top leaders who live on foreign soil, following the October 7 massacre.

The head of the Israel Security Agency, commonly referred to as “Shin Bet,” said in a recording that was leaked to Israeli media back in December that the attack was “our Munich” — a reference to when Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 members of Israel’s Olympic team in the 1972 Summer Games in Munich. Israel responded to the murders by hunting down and killing every person that was involved, either directly or indirectly, with the attacks.

“The cabinet set a goal for us, to take out Hamas. And we are determined to do it, this is our Munich,” said Shin Bet Head Ronen Bar. “In every location, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon, in Turkey, in Qatar, everyone. It will take a few years, but we will be there in order to do it.”

He said that his agency is responsible for security and that they failed to do their jobs on October 7 but are now “on an upward trajectory.”

Bar said that Shin Bet was “not waiting” to take every action that it can at the current moment to execute its goals as it operates with a new sense of urgency.

“We are already learning our lessons from the events, already transferring them to other sectors, not just to the Gaza Strip, of course,” he said.

He added that much of what Israel has faced over the last year from a threat perspective is not known to the public.

“The scope of threats facing the State of Israel has been unprecedented in the past year, even before these events,” he said. “Even in this case, the main issues are hidden from view. Many things are happening beneath the surface.”

Haniyeh’s death comes after Israel killed Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr in Lebanon earlier in the day in response to an attack that Hezbollah launched last weekend that killed 12 children in northern Israel.

The IDF said that Shukr was Hezbollah’s “most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit” and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah’s “right-hand man” and was his “adviser for planning and directing wartime operations.”