Iran has condemned Israel’s “brazen admission” of having killed former Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran earlier this year.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani, in a letter, addressed to the UN secretary-general said that this brazen admission marks the first time the Israeli regime has openly confessed to its responsibility for this heinous crime.
Earlier, Israel’s defence minister Israel Katz on Monday had acknowledged Tel Aviv was responsible for the killing, the first time an official admission was made.
Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a guesthouse on July 31 in Tehran by an explosive device that had been kept by Israeli operatives weeks before.
Israel, until Monday, had never accepted killing Haniyeh, but Iran and Hamas had attributed the political leader’s death to the nation.
Iran, in October, said it fired 200 missiles at Israel, as an response to the killing.
Tel Aviv claimed most of the missile were intercepted either by its own air defenses or by allies’ air forces.
Iranian UN Ambassador Iravani, on Tuesday, had termed Israel’s killing of Haniyeh a “heinous terrorist act.” He added Katz’s statement showed Iran was justified in striking Israel in retaliation.
