As the Telegraph reveals, explosive devices were placed in three rooms of the Tehran hostel where the Hamas leader was staying and then detonated remotely from abroad
Details of how the leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniya was murdered, is revealed in a report by the Telegraph.
As he points out, the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in three separate rooms of a building where the Hamas leader resided.
As he points out, the original plan was to assassinate Ismail Haniya last May when he attended the funeral of Ibrahim Raisi, the former president of Iran. However, the operation did not go ahead because of the number of people inside the building at the time and the high probability of its failure, two Iranian officials told the Telegraph.
Instead, the two agents planted explosive devices in three rooms of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) guesthouse in northern Tehran where Haniya might be staying.
The agents were seen moving stealthily as they entered and exited several rooms within minutes, according to officials who have footage from the building’s CCTV.
The perpetrators were then said to have sneaked out of the country, but had a source still in Iran. At 2 am on Wednesday, they detonated the explosives from outside in the room where Haniya was staying, killing him.
“They are now certain that Mossad recruited agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi protection unit,” an IRGC official told the Telegraph from Tehran.
He said: “Upon further investigation, they discovered additional explosive mechanisms in two other rooms.”
A second IRGC elite military official told the Telegraph: “This is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach.”
The official said a task force has been set up to come up with ideas to present the killing as a non-security breach.
“It’s still a question for everyone how it happened, I can’t understand it. There must be something higher up the hierarchy that no one knows about.”he added.
Esmail Qaani, the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, has called for people to be fired, arrested and possibly executed, he said. “The breach has humiliated everyone.”
According to a New York Times report, Iran has made dozens of arrests, including senior intelligence officers, military officials and workers at a military hostel in Tehran.
Source :Skai
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