Iran has launched a wide-ranging investigation into Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh’s murder, a stark sign of how damaging and shocking the security failure was. Iran has arrested more than two dozen people, including military officials, senior intelligence officers, and staff members, at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran in a massive and humiliating security breach. In…
Sheikh Ekrama Sabri, the current head of its Supreme Islamic Council, called the Hamas leader a ‘martyr’ during a sermon. A senior Muslim cleric was detained Friday on suspicion of inciting “terrorism” after he mourned slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, his lawyer told AFP. Sheikh Ekrama Sabri, 85, Jerusalem’s…
Haniyeh was killed by a missile that directly hit him at a government guesthouse in Tehran where he was staying. The funeral of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was held in Qatar on Friday, two days after he was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran – the latest in a series of deaths of senior figures…