Bomb That Killed Hamas Leader In Iran Planted Months In Advance: Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

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    The bomb that killed Ismail Haniyeh, the top leader of Hamas, in Iran early Wednesday was planted several weeks ago, according to a new report.

    Haniyeh traveled to Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, and had been seen at the event in the hours before the attack.

    Sources told The New York Times that assassins placed the explosive roughly two months ago in a Tehran guesthouse protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps where Haniyeh had stayed before.

    When it was confirmed that Haniyeh was in his room at the guesthouse, the explosive was detonated remotely early on Wednesday, killing him and a bodyguard, officials said.

    The loud explosion reportedly shook the building, shattered windows, and knocked down part of an exterior wall.

    The report said a team of medics rushed to the room and declared Haniyeh dead. They tried, unsuccessfully, to revive the bodyguard.

    Khalil al-Hayya, the deputy commander of Hamas in the Gaza Strip who was also in Tehran, arrived at the scene and saw Haniyeh's corpse, officials said.

    Sources told the newspaper the room next door, where Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad al-Nakhalah was staying, was not badly damaged in the blast.

    The report emphasized that it was not clear how the bomb made its way into the guesthouse. It also dismissed early speculation of a missile strike.

    Iranian and U.S. officials have pinned the assassination on Israel, which has not publicly claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the report.

    However, sources told the newspaper that Israeli intelligence officials briefed the United States and other Western governments on the operation after it took place.

    A top Israeli intelligence official had vowed to "take out" Hamas, including in foreign countries, after the group's October 7 terrorist attacks.


    In retaliation for the killing of Haniyeh this week, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a direct strike on Israel.

    Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday that a July 13 strike in Gaza killed Mohammed Deif, the commander of the terrorist group Hamas' military wing, who was second only to Yahya Sinwar in the strip.

poll#211

26 days after the October 7th Terror attacks on Israel, where over 1400 Jewish men, women and children were gruesomely murdered, and hundreds more made hostage: Should the Biden /Harris administration finally state that the administration's primary Middle East negotiating partner, Iran, is behind the funding and strategy of the aggressors, the Hamas Terrorists, or continue to take the more moderate position of "Don't," which is clearly not working?

  Yes, name Iran as the funding /strategy culprit, and begin to enforce the President Trump era sanctions to END Iran's ability to prosecute this war against Israel and the United States.

  No, Iran is a valuable partner in the motives of the Biden / Harris administration, and must not be named as the culprit and our enemy.

  I have larger concerns just to survive in this economy.

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poll#209

In the minds of many, since January 20, 2021, the World has become far less safe in every theater of conflict, beginning with the attack of Israel by Iran /Hamas, so the question becomes: What caused this Worldwide calamity of extreme geopolitical dysfunction, and what will correct it?

  Joe Biden is the cause of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when a Republican is elected president.

  This delayed Worldwide dysfunction and constant conflict is all Donald Trump's fault, as it is with everything that occurs going forward, and long before the man ever became the 45th president..

  Joe Biden is the "root cause" of this frightening Worldwide situation, and it will end when former President Donald John Trump is elected president.

  In the imitable words of Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?"

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