Hamas Chief Killed in Iran as Gaza War Tensions Spiral

Hamas' top political leader has been killed in an attack in the Iranian capital of Tehran, according to the Palestinian movement and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

The IRGC's press office reported that Hamas Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was slain alongside his bodyguard at his residence after attending the inauguration of newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday. The IRGC said that the cause and circumstances of the incident remain under investigation.

The news was later confirmed by Hamas' press office, which reported that Haniyeh "was killed in a treacherous Zionist raid" at his residence in Tehran.

No entity immediately claimed responsibility for the assassination.

The attack comes just a day after Israel claimed the killing of a senior Hezbollah commander in the Lebanese capital of Beirut in response to a deadly attack on an Israel-occupied town that was blamed on the Lebanese movement. Both actions mark the latest escalations in the deepening crisis that has gripped the Middle East since the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October sparked the deadliest and longest-ever war in the Gaza Strip.

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