In a major revelation in the assassination case of Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, a media report claimed that Israel had planted the bomb into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying around two months ago. Notably, Haniyeh was assassinated, along with one of his bodyguards, in an attack on a guesthouse in Iran’s capital Tehran on Wednesday.
According to a report by the New York Times, he was assassinated by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying.
The report claimed that the explosives had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse despite the fact the building is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Although much details about his travel were not revealed, it was reported that the top Iranian leader was in Tehran for the Presidential inauguration.
“The bomb was detonated remotely, once it was confirmed that he was inside his room at the guesthouse. The blast also killed a bodyguard. The explosion shook the building, shattered some windows and caused the partial collapse of an exterior wall,” NYT quoted two Iranian officials, members of the Revolutionary Guards briefed on the incident.
As per the report, Haniyeh had stayed several times at the same guesthouse where he was killed on July 31.
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