‘Audacious and Shameless’ – Iran Slams Israel’s Confession of Haniyeh’s Assassination

Iran’s imperishable typical to the UN. Amir Saeed Iravani,(Photo: UN TV, via Tehran Times)

By Palestine Chronicle Staff  

“This audacious and shameless confession to the assassination of a governmental person wrong the sovereign territory of a United Nations Member State erstwhile again underscores the planetary work of the Israeli authorities for its acts of terrorism”.

Iran’s imperishable typical and ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, addressed a missive to the UN Secretary-General and Security Council connected Tuesday, denouncing Israel’s explicit admittance of work for the assassination of Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran.

The missive underscored Iran’s close to a antiaircraft effect and reiterated Tehran’s position, declaring that the Israeli authorities poses the astir important menace to bid and information some regionally and globally.

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“This audacious and shameless confession to the assassination of a governmental person wrong the sovereign territory of a United Nations Member State erstwhile again underscores the planetary work of the Israeli authorities for its acts of coercion and aggression,” Iravani stated during the UN session.

Iravani stressed that,

“The continued soundlessness of the Security Council, entrusted with the superior work for the attraction of planetary bid and security, would not lone embolden this violent authorities for the committee of much atrocious crimes but besides undermine the halfway principles upon which the United Nations was founded.”

Israel’s Admission

On Monday, Israeli Security Minister Israel Katz confirmed for the archetypal clip that Israel was down the assassination of Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran earlier successful the summer.

In a menace to the Ansarallah question successful Yemen, Katz said successful a code connected Monday, that Israel would “behead the leaders of the Houthis (Ansarallah – PC), conscionable arsenic we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Nasrallah.”

His admittance astatine a Defense Ministry lawsuit comes 5 months aft Haniyeh was assassinated successful the country of the guesthouse helium was staying in. He had attended the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian a time earlier.

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“In these days, erstwhile the Houthi panic enactment is firing missiles astatine Israel, I privation to convey a wide connection to them: We person defeated Hamas, we person defeated Hezbollah, we person blinded the defence systems successful Iran, and damaged the (missile) accumulation systems,” Katz is quoted by The Times of Israel arsenic saying.

He continued,

“We person overthrown the Assad authorities successful Syria, we person dealt dense blows to the ‘axis of evil,’ and we volition besides severely onslaught the Houthi panic enactment successful Yemen, which remains the past 1 standing.” 

Katz vowed that Israel would “strike strategical infrastructure and behead its leaders, conscionable arsenic we did to Haniyeh, Sinwar, and Nasrallah, successful Tehran, Gaza, and Lebanon — we volition bash successful Hodeidah and Sanaa.”

“Whoever raises a manus against Israel volition person their manus chopped off, and the agelong limb of the IDF (Israeli concern service – PC) volition onslaught them and settee the score,” helium reportedly threatened.

Haniyeh’s Assassination

As the caput of Hamas’ governmental bureau, Haniyeh was a cardinal fig successful the ceasefire negotiations with Israel.

In August, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) announced that method investigations confirmed that the assassination of Haniyeh was carried retired utilizing a 7.5-kilogram projectile.

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“This enactment was designed and implemented by the Zionist authorities and supported by the transgression authorities of America,” the IRGC said successful a statement.

Hamas said astatine the clip that if assassinating Haniyeh “was 1 of Netanyahu’s goals to alteration the people of the negotiations, helium is delusional.”

(PC, Al Mayadeen)