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Following he the assassination of Hamas's Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh, the grandson of Imam Khomeini in a message has stressed that his path will continue until the accomplishment of final goals and objectives.
In a condolence message issued on Wednesday, Seyyed Hassan Khomeini said that the news of the assassination of the brother Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards in Tehran was shocking.
“The successive and consecutive defeats of the Zionist enemy in the last 300 days after the al-Aqsa storm operation have exposed the harsh and hideous face of this regime, which, according to the supreme leader of the Islamic revolution, is "a gang of criminals, murderers and terrorists" more than ever.”
The reputed scholar highlighted that martyrdom has been the dream of great men like Haniyeh.
He also pointed out that several members of Haniyeh’s family have already been martyred during the ongoing savage military campaign by Israel in the besieged Gaza stip.
Elsewhere in his message, Seyyed Hassan Khomeini While congratulating and condoling his martyrdom to the his family and the oppressed Palestinian nation, hoped that these martyrdoms will be the result in the final victory of the Palestinian cause.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday.
Iranian authorities announced that rigorous investigations have been launched into the targeted killing of Haniyeh in the capital and the results will subsequently be released.
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The Islamic Republic has declared three days of national mourning for the loss of the Palestinian resistance leader.
Palestinian groups have already condemned his assassination in the strongest terms, vowing to make those behind the assassination pay the price of the heinous act.
Haniyeh, 62, was born in a refugee camp near Gaza City and joined Hamas in the late 1980s during the First Intifada or uprising.
As Hamas grew in power, Haniyeh rose through the ranks and was appointed part of a “collective leadership” in 2004 and reached the Hamas top job in 2017.
Three of his sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza in April.
