An explosive device hidden in a heavily guarded complex where Ismail Haniyeh was known to stay in Iran was what killed him, according to a Times investigation.
Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.
The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials. The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran.
Mr. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital for the presidential inauguration. The bomb was detonated remotely, the five officials said, once it was confirmed that he was inside his room at the guesthouse. The blast also killed a bodyguard.
TBH don’t know which one would have been more embarressing for the Iranians. That the air defenses would have let an airstrike in Tehran or that they let the Israelis plant a bomb in a secured compound. Honestly I think this is worse for them.
And they didn’t find it in two months! No security sweeps?
They didn’t think to check the bomb-shaped clock on the table. Too obvious.
Nah, this is definitely worse. As much as they try Iranians are never going to have anything that resembles western technology, they will definitely have to pay the price for that if/when they try anything. This kinda internal betrayal though, this reveals them as the clowns they are selling out one of their most important allies to their nemesis.
I saw a military pundit say the opposite: this is planted by Iran for 2 reasons:
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create paranoia to help crack down on society (e.g. “suspicious maids”)
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dismiss the idea that Israel is able to find out where and when to hit a target to the minute with extreme precision (through a window, which would look like a bomb exploded from the inside instead of just a maid planting a bomb) and possibly taking an f35-style stealth aircraft into Iranian airspace close to Tehran undetected.
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embarressing for the Iranians
Hosting a diplomat and working to negotiate a ceasefire in Gaza is embarrassing.
Spending months, thousands of man-hours, and a fortune in high tech military equipment to kill the lead negotiator in a peace deal is uber cool and mega elite, just like in a video game, pew pew.
This is some Sam Fisher Splinter Cell infiltration shit that you’d usually expect to see in video games or Hollywood, not in real life.
Netanyahu really doesn’t want these negotiations to come through, does he? How can he go to the hostage families and tell them he’s gonna get their relatives back when he bombs the shit out of the country they’re hidden in, has blown up and wanted to funnel sea water into the tunnels where they are most likely held (from an outsiders perspective) and now basically shot someone in the face across the negotiating table?
Tell me how that makes sense.
The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound
A bomb placed two months ago? Geeze, not protected very well by these guys now was it.
I wonder how many more ‘bombs’ are sitting elsewhere waiting to go off.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it was done by a traitor
If this is true, why would they release the information about how they did it?
Yes there is some psychological warfare effect that will make hamas people feel scared for a short amount of time, but it will also make them change their security procedures to help prevent this method from working in the future. Their forensics were going to determine that it was a bomb, but they wouldn’t have been able to tell that the bomb was planted so far ahead of time.
I’m not convinced this story is true. I’m not saying it’s false, but i am saying they had no incentive to tell the truth, and in fact they have incentive to lie so that hamas puts work into securing against the wrong method.
I think it depends greatly on how the bomb was planted. Suppose, for example, the building was undergoing some renovations and the bomb was hidden inside a wall that had been legitimately opened up as part of the renovations. The debris would show the bomb was in the wall, and they could probably easily pinpoint when during the renovations that wall was worked on.
I work in various levels of “secured” locations and sometimes cut open walls. Most places couldn’t tell you what walls I even cut let alone when.
the bomb that almost got Margaret Thatcher had been placed nearly a month earlier. one of the ones that almost got Hitler had been placed two days prior
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Fantastic. Fuck that guy. How many millions of Palestinians did he condemn to die with no hope or prosperity? Not any more.
How many millions of Palestinians did he condemn to die with no hope or prosperity?
He was the lead negotiator working towards a ceasefire. Netanyahu killed him to scuttle further talks.
The dude built tunnels under schools and hospitals. He didn’t give one fuck about the people of Gaza.
With a shovel he stretched all the way from Iran?
C’mon that’s you’re argument? Ridiculous and uninformed take.
Right back at you.
This is Zionist fear mongering used to justify the assassination of a diplomat in pursuit of genocide.
And you’re arguing he deserved to die because “tunnels”.
“Diplomat.” You have to be from a country to have diplomacs. Terrorists do not get to have countries because if they do, they tend to convert all of its resources and domestic capabilities into instrumentalities and fronts for illegal political violence.
Because “tunnels?”
No that’s a simple-minded and reductive take that you’re obviously not making any good faith.
Those tunnels represent a group of criminals who have plundered the wealth in future of what could be a beautiful country and instead converted it for their own personal gain, which happens to be killing Jews.
Every good thing Gaza has ever had has been corrupted by terrorists and repurposed to kill Jews. That’s it. Simple as that.
Did have all the food and water they wanted right now if they didn’t fuck up their airports and waterports by the ing them over to international terrorists with a singular purpose.
Well, I guess you could say it’s two purposes, if exterminating the Jews is thought of as one purpose and installing a new Islamic caliphate seated in Ramallah to rule the world as a secondary one.
That’s what you’re defending, a dude who literally is responsible for making sure millions of Palestinians live and die without ever knowing hope or prosperity. For every boogeyman that you imagine is out here being happy that Palestinian kids are getting killed, nobody was happier to see kids die to Israeli bombs than this dude.
“Terrorists do not get to have countries because if they do, they tend to convert all of its resources and domestic capabilities into instrumentalities and fronts for illegal political violence.”
Bro that is literally the definition of Israel. Human rights violations since its founding and until today.
I guess that means Hamas has every right to retaliate (according to your OWN definition and logic).
And of all the places where a caliphate could spring into life, the very fact that you chose to say “Ramallah” is a stark reminder that you know so little about Palestine or its demographic.
After all, we are not people to you 😊
The IDF puts hospitals next to military installations and forces everyone aged 18 to do military service where they end up abusing and killing Palestinians.
Guess that makes it okay to kill anyone in Israel, and you for supporting it, because
tunnelsmilitary installations near civilian areas.He didn’t give one fuck about the people of Gaza.
Fuck Hanieh. But also fuck you. It’s not like you view Palestinians as human beings to start with.
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Fair enough.
Imagine the outrage if the Iranians returned the favor.
Israel needs to knock this shit off before they start something they can’t finish.
Netanyahu wants Iran to return the favor. He needs a forever war to maintain his dictatorial war powers.
I keep recommending people read this article. It’s from his former best friend and he lays it all out: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-798324
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.Imagine others countries too, it means Mossad may have put bombs in various complex around the world, in some Europe countries? in some south American countries? about everywhere in the world, there is maybe bombs hidden under floor or in wall or whatever, waiting for the right moment.
I guess they also had mics everywhere in this complex.
They did something devious and crafty, but in a country which has had major security issues for years.
Let’s not suggest they have superpowers because of it.
Does this constitute Israeli terrorism? And will the international community move to condemn and sanction these acts?
Nope, I think this falls under the ‘war’ flavor, not terrorism.
In that case, I guess killing another country’s prime minister and chief diplomat is fine.
Or to quote Nixon, it’s not a crime when the president does it.
Even though the killing of the diplomat may have been legal, conducting an attack on the territory of a country not taking part in the conflict is typically not.
Countries usually don’t like it when you conduct assassinations or acts of war on their territory.
Yep, don’t disagree. But to some extent, Isreal already believes that it is in a war with Iran.
In that case they should go ahead and declare war, at least if they care about keeping a sliver of legitimacy around their illegal assassinations. Let’s see how well that goes…
Israel is 100% reliant on the goodwill of the international community. They’ve been working double time to wear it thin the past year, I’m honestly starting to wonder how far they’ll push it. Without international support, they’re just another small Middle Eastern country than can be walked on by Iran/Egypt/Saudi Arabia/Whoever has the biggest stick…
