Iran has arrested greater than two dozen individuals, together with senior intelligence officers, army officers and workers staff at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran, in response to an enormous and humiliating safety breach that enabled the assassination of a prime chief of Hamas, in line with two Iranians acquainted with the investigation.
The high-level arrests got here after the killing early Wednesday of Ismail Haniyeh, who had led Hamas’ political workplace in Qatar and was visiting Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president and staying in northern Tehran, Iran’s capital.
The zeal of the response to the killing of Haniyeh underscores what a devastating safety failure this was for Iran’s management, with the assassination occurring at a closely guarded compound within the nation’s capital inside hours of the swearing-in ceremony of the nation’s new president.
The high-level arrests got here after the killing early Wednesday of Ismail Haniyeh, who had led Hamas’ political workplace in Qatar and was visiting Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president and staying in northern Tehran, Iran’s capital.
The zeal of the response to the killing of Haniyeh underscores what a devastating safety failure this was for Iran’s management, with the assassination occurring at a closely guarded compound within the nation’s capital inside hours of the swearing-in ceremony of the nation’s new president.
