Mossad did it -

they are professionals.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 4:20pm:



We'll never know - it's all top secret for at least 100 years.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 4:22pm:

Maybe not...

If there's a change in US attitude towards Iran and a ceasefire in Gaza, that might indicate they're all involved.

Realpolitik.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 4:27pm:



But the Mullahs in Iran promised divine justice if Israel did it a again -

they have done it again.

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Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 5:03pm:

Could have also involved the Saudis.

However, whoever did it knew exactly where Haniyeh was located.

Who provided the geocoordinates? US spy intel? Or the Iranians?

Bobby. wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 5:11pm:

Maybe they're wrong.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 5:11pm:


The Iranians posted online where Haniyeh was.

Last pic of him was with supreme dictator.

Israel leads the way with military technology we used this with our FA18s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litening

The Israelis do their own electronics with F35

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 5:16pm:

Do you think the Iranians hide him close to senior Iranian leaders?

A photo opportunity taken, who knows when, does not provide the location of where he is in real-time.

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 5:26pm:

How did they locate him?

Baronvonrort wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 5:16pm:



Those cunning Zionists !!!

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/hamas-political-leader-haniyeh-killed-ir...


31 min ago

Here's what leaders have said about Haniyeh's assassination

From CNN staff

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh speaks at a press conference on March 26.
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Vahid Salemi/AP/File

As the Middle East reels from the assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, leaders have begun weighing in — with some condemning the killing and voicing alarm that it could escalate the regional conflict.

Here’s what they have said:

    Palestinian leaders: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has condemned the killing, as has Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa. The secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein Al-Sheikh, also denounced it.

    United States: The White House has seen the reports of Haniyeh’s killing, a spokesperson said, but declined to immediately comment further. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he does not think war in the Middle East is inevitable, but if Israel were to be attacked, the US would help defend it.

    Qatar: Qatar, which hosts the political bureau of Hamas that Haniyeh led, called Haniyeh’s killing a “heinous crime” and a “dangerous escalation”.

    China: Beijing “firmly opposes and condemns the assassination” of Haniyeh, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said, adding that “Gaza should achieve a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire as soon as possible to avoid further escalation of conflicts and confrontations.”

    Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned the killing, which he called a “treacherous assassination” and “despicable act.” He appeared to blame Israel in a statement in which he said “Zionist barbarism will not be able to achieve its goals now as it has failed to before.” The president added that Turkey will continue to support the Palestinian people.

    Russia: Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov called Haniyeh’s killing “an absolutely unacceptable political assassination”
while the foreign ministry warned of “dangerous consequences for the entire region,” urging state actors to “exercise restraint.”

    Houthis: Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, a top official of the Iran-backed militant group in Yemen, has called the killing a “flagrant violation of laws and ideal values.”

    Hezbollah: The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group said they share “feelings of pain” and extend their “deepest condolences” to Hamas over the killing of Haniyeh, who they described as “one of the great resistance leaders of our present era.”

https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/hamas-political-leader-haniyeh-killed-ir...

1 hr 59 min ago

"You killed our dear guest": Supreme leader vows Iran will avenge Haniyeh's death


From CNN’s Alireza Hajihosseini
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets with Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, on July 30.


Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran sees it as its duty to avenge the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh because he was assassinated on Iranian soil.

“You killed our dear guest in our house and now have paved the way for your harsh punishment,” Khamenei said, referring to Israel.
“We consider it our duty to ask for the blood of our dear guest.”

It's reading like the US is planning to end the regime of the Islamic Republic.

Bobby. wrote on Jul 31^st, 2024 at 11:05pm:

Yep... well, they say a lot, those mullahs.

They only act through proxies - Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis...

The fact is the mullahs are aware of the deep resentment of their autocratic theocratic regime among Iranians.

A general mobilisation of Iranians for war will demonstrate to the world that the Iranian regime is in the same state as the Ottoman Caliphate was during and directly after WW1.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 6:44am:

Works the other way as well.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 6:49am:

The days of the Iranian regime are numbered,

The issue is whether there is enough local political personnel to establish an alternative Iranian government.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 7:11am:

The Sunni Arab states are on Israel's side. The destruction of Shia Islam is the wet dream of Sunnis.

Turkey aspires to be part of the EU and is a NATO ally. Sabre-rattling is as far as Turkey will be going.

India has nukes too, so Pakistan...?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/world/middleeast/iran-orders-attack-israel.ht...


    July 31, 2024, 3:08 p.m. ET




Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly,

in retaliation for the killing in Tehran of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, according to three Iranian officials briefed on the order.

Mr. Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday morning, shortly after Iran announced that Mr. Haniyeh had been killed, said the three Iranian officials, including two members of the Revolutionary Guards. They asked that their names not be published because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 7:39am:



I believe it.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/who-was-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-assassi...

Now that's a GOOD Hamasite.

Captain Nemo wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 11:17am:

Who's next, I wonder. Kahman Sahghan Deezbawlz?

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-812869


BREAKING NEWS



By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
AUGUST 1, 2024 10:54

The US has deployed 12 warships to the Middle East amid the rise in tensions between Israel and Lebanon, the Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing a source in the defense establishment.

Some Joker ...............................        

Yes. It is interesting how principled Iran will be in its response to Israel.

But clearly someone really wants a big war in the Middle East.

RussiAnVetEraN wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2024 at 12:51am:


Iran has unguided missiles that miss just about everything they try to hit.
Their drones take 8 hours flight time to Israel.

What did Iran hit in retaliation for Israel attack in Syria? Was it zip zero zilch?

I doubt the Israelis are worried about Iran.

The Sunni Gulf States don't like the Shia theocracy they would be happy for Israel to give them a bitch slap or 2.

Bobby. wrote on Aug 1^st, 2024 at 7:51pm:

Baronvonrort wrote on Aug 2^nd, 2024 at 1:00am:



In military, sometimes, you dont have to hit to gain valuable information.

And let me remind you that Sunni Gulf states are equally theocratic.  Just check out where Osama Bin Ladin was from.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyt-haniyeh-was-killed-by-explosive-smuggled-into-...




US officials assess Israel behind assassination of Hamas chief, which Middle East sources say was months in planning; report says Israel briefed US, allies in immediate aftermath

By ToI Staff 1 August 2024, 7:41 pm

The explosion that killed Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard early Wednesday was set off by a sophisticated, remote-controlled bomb smuggled about two months ago into the Hamas leader’s room at the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The report cited one American and seven Middle Eastern officials, including two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It contradicted earlier reports, including by the IRGC’s Tasnim news agency, that a missile had killed Haniyeh. It also cited officials from the United States and the Middle East as saying or assessing that Israel was behind the blast.

According to three Iranian officials cited by the Times, the assassination is a “tremendous embarrassment” for the IRGC, which runs the guesthouse where Haniyeh and other dignitaries were staying.

Haniyeh was in Tehran for the swearing-in of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian. Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied the assassination, but Iran has vowed to exact revenge on Israel.

The IRGC officials cited by the Times noted that while the explosion shattered windows and collapsed a portion of the wall of the compound, there was minimal damage to the building itself. The New York Times said the limited scope of the damage was corroborated by photographs reviewed by the newspaper.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-august-03-2024/#liveblog-entry-3346290





The Mossad enlisted Iranian security agents to plant explosives in the Tehran guesthouse where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was staying, according to a report in the Telegraph.

The report says the initial plan called for assassinating Haniyeh when visited Tehran in May to attend the funeral of president Ebrahim Raisi, but two Iranian officials tell the newspaper the operation was called off due to the large number of people in the building and seeming high possibility of failure.

The British daily says the agents nevertheless went ahead and planted explosives in three rooms at the compound, and later left Iran. They reportedly detonated the bombs from abroad.

“They are now certain that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi security unit,” an official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tells the newspaper, referring to a unit tasked with protecting senior officials.

Another IRGC official says: “It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach.”

“It’s still a question for everyone how this happened, I can’t understand it. There must be something higher in the hierarchy that no one knows about,” the official adds.

TEHRAN — The FBI confirmed this morning that Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas and mastermind of the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, fell down after loud popping noises occurred in his immediate vicinity.

Analysts say that the loud popping noises which seemed to have contributed to the terrorist leader's sudden fall may have been potentially related to a predawn flyover of the Iranian capitol by several fighter jets with a blue Star of David painted on their fuselages, but that it is too early to determine whether there is any significant connection at this point.

"Everyone attending the inauguration of the Iranian president was milling around being super peaceful, talking about all sorts of peaceful things," reported Bart Lodge, FBI spokesman. "Bystanders then reported several popping noises — almost like someone popping a packet of bubble wrap — and Ismail Haniyeh seemed to stumble a little bit and then fall down. We are still collecting information and hope to have an answer in a few decades."

Sources within Hamas have confirmed that the terrorist leader was in fact dead and in many, many pieces. Several media sources including The Washington Post have mourned the passing of another "austere religious scholar" who died needlessly at the hands of those violent Israelis.

At publishing time, reports from Lebanon confirmed that Fuad Shukr, a Hezebollah leader who was involved in the 1983 Marine Corps bombing in Lebanon, had also mysteriously fallen down after several noisy popping sounds

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Indoor press conference with everyone holding machine guns and RPG

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-israel-told-us-it-took-out-h...




Today, 5:44 am

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Israel informed the US immediately following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh that it was behind the killing, the Washington Post reports, citing sources familiar with the White House’s thought process.

According to the newspaper, Biden administration officials were livid about the decision to take out Haniyeh, worrying it could upend months of careful negotiations toward a truce in Gaza.

The newspaper reports that US officials are also outraged over Israel failing to inform them before launching other operations to assassinate Hezbollah or Iranian commanders.

An anonymous Israeli official quoted by the Washington Post confirms that a phone call between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden last week was “tense.”

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Enraged Joe Biden?
I like to see that 

Bobby. wrote on Aug 7^th, 2024 at 3:10pm:

Ah, plausible deniability!

Nothing like it for offering many paths out!

tallowood wrote on Aug 7^th, 2024 at 5:14pm:

C'mon man! The idea...!!!

"citing sources familiar with the White House’s thought process."

Ah... yeah ... that's reliable...

Operational Security relies on not telling anyone in advance of a move to take out a Hamas or Hezbollah honcho... leaks everywhere, Woodie...  the US knows that - they are just playing with words and pretending to be outraged when they knew it was going to happen some time.... and there are more to come.

Uneasy sits the head of the new head of Hamas... at some point in the future it could be fifty feet from the body parts...

There are persistent rumors that Ismail Haniyeh died in his bed.