She is on high alert Tehranas the funeral ceremony of the political leader of Hamas is underway Ismail Haniya who was murdered yesterday early in the morning in the capital of Iran, where he was for the inauguration of the new Iranian president Massoud Pezeskian. Haniya’s burial will take place on Friday in Doha.

Three days of mourning have been declared in Iran, while – according to CNN – there is an order to restrict flights over Tehran.

Flight restrictions are in effect from 6am. local time until 10:30 a.m. local time, according to the release.

The funeral procession of Haniya’s body will start from Tehran University to the capital’s Azadi Square, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News agency reported.

Thousands of people have gathered at the place where the procession will take place. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads the prayer for Haniya.

In the crowd wave the flags of Palestine and Iran as well as the yellow flag of Hezbollah.

Khamenei vowed revenge

Khamenei yesterday vowed revenge for the killing of Haniya, an act attributed to Israel.

He said he is “Tehran’s duty”, as the assassination took place in Iran’s capital.

“With this act, the Zionist criminal and terrorist regime has prepared the ground for a heavy punishment for it, and we consider it our duty to avenge the blood shed on the soil of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said in a statement broadcast by the Iranian news agency Irna.

Iran “will defend its territorial integrity, dignity, honor and pride and make the occupying terrorist forces regret this cowardly act” of killing the Hamas leader, Iran’s president said. Massoud Pezeskianas reported by Iranian media.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the Hamas leader’s blood “will not be wasted.”

“The testimony of Haniya in Tehran will strengthen the deep and unbreakable bond” of Iran, Palestine “and the resistance,” Mr. Kanaani said, according to Iranian state media.

The secretary of the political office of Hamas, Ismail Haniya, was killed by a rocket that hit the building where he lived, during his stay in Tehran. The Iranian authorities announced yesterday that the missile was launched from foreign territory and not from Iranian territory.

The 62-year-old head of Hamas’ political office, Ismail Haniya, was based in Doha.

According to Iranian media, he was killed at around 02:00, while he was in a “special residence for war veterans” in the northern part of the Iranian capital.

“The brother, the leader, the mujahid (s.b. ‘holy warrior’) Ismail Haniya, the head of the movement, was killed in a Zionist raid on his home in Tehran after attending the swearing-in of the new president” of the Islamic Republic of Pezeskian, Hamas said in a statement.