TEHRAN: Iran held funeral processions on Thursday (Aug 1) with calls for revenge after the killing in Tehran of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in a strike blamed on Israel.
Iran ians take part in a funeral ceremony for late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Aug 1, 2024.
It came just hours after Israel targeted and killed top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in a retaliatory strike on the Lebanese capital Beirut, sending fears of a wider regional war soaring in fallout from the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.Iran's state TV showed the coffins of Haniyeh and his bodyguards covered in Palestinian flags during the ceremony attended by senior Iranian officials.
Iran's conservative parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Iran"will certainly carry out the supreme leader's order ". Pezeshkian said Wednesday that"the Zionists will soon see the consequences of their cowardly and terrorist act".
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