TEHRAN, (PIC)
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed to make the Israeli occupation regret its cowardly assassination of Ismail Haneyya, head of Hamas’s political bureau.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will not give up on its efforts to protect its territorial integrity, sovereignty, dignity and reputation, and the Zionist regime will soon see the consequences of its cowardly and terrorist act,” Pezeshkian in a statement aired by state satellite channels on Wednesday afternoon.
The Iranian president offered his condolences to the Palestinian people, their resistance and the Muslim Ummah on the martyrdom of Haneyya and his companion in a predawn Israeli attack in northern Tehran on Wednesday.
He said martyr Haneyya was an official guest of the Iranian president and the government of Iran and was in Tehran to attend a presidential inauguration ceremony before he was assassinated.
The president said the Israeli occupation regime’s assassination of Haneyya was a desperate move to come out of its quandary in Gaza, where it has been waging a brutal war against the Palestinians for more than nine months.
