{"id":54882,"date":"2024-08-04T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T06:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=54882"},"modified":"2024-08-04T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T06:09:35","slug":"iran-says-short-range-projectile-killed-haniyeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=54882","title":{"rendered":"Iran says &#8216;short-range projectile&#8217; killed Haniyeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Palestinian militant group Hamas&#8217; leader Ismail Haniyeh was slain in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg, and vowed severe revenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s assassination has aroused fears of direct conflict between Tehran and its arch-enemy Israel in a region shaken by Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza and a worsening conflict in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Revenge for the killing of the Hamas leader will be &#8220;severe and at an appropriate time, place, and manner&#8221;, the Guards&#8217; statement added, blaming the &#8220;terrorist Zionist regime&#8221; of Israel for his death.<\/p>\n<p>Iran and Hamas have accused Israel of carrying out the strike that killed Haniyeh hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran&#8217;s new president.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times, citing unnamed sources, reported that the explosion which killed Haniyeh was a bomb that was covertly smuggled into the guesthouse where he was staying in Tehran two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have not claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by the elite Guards force also accused the &#8220;criminal US government&#8221; of supporting the attack which Iranian media said was in a northern suburb of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Haniyeh was buried on Friday in Qatar, where he was based.<\/p>\n<p>Dailystar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday that Palestinian militant group Hamas&#8217; leader Ismail Haniyeh was slain in Tehran by a short-range projectile with a warhead of about 7 kg, and vowed severe revenge. Wednesday&#8217;s assassination has aroused fears of direct conflict between Tehran and its arch-enemy Israel in a region shaken by Israel&#8217;s war in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2060],"class_list":["post-54882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-iran-says-short-range-projectile-killed-haniyeh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}