[Regnum] Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of the Ansar Allah movement, one of the leaders of the Yemeni Houthis, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, called the murder of the head of the Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniyeh "a monstrous terrorist crime."| Whatevs. |
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on the night of July 31, the 61-year-old head of the Politburo and one of his bodyguards were killed in a missile attack on a house in Tehran. Hamas officially confirmed the death of Ismail Haniyeh. He arrived in Iran to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the country's new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
On the same day, Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Bogdanov stated that the death of the head of the Politburo was a political assassination and such actions threatened further escalation. He noted that what happened would negatively affect the course of the Middle East settlement talks taking place in Doha.