Posted on 08/02/2024 7:50:19 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
The Mossad enlisted Iranian security agents to plant explosives in the Tehran guesthouse where Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh was staying, according to a report in the Telegraph.
The report says the initial plan called for assassinating Haniyeh when visited Tehran in May to attend the funeral of president Ebrahim Raisi, but two Iranian officials tell the newspaper the operation was called off due to the large number of people in the building and seeming high possibility of failure.
The British daily says the agents nevertheless went ahead and planted explosives in three rooms at the compound, and later left Iran. They reportedly detonated the bombs from abroad.
“They are now certain that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi security unit,” an official in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tells the newspaper, referring to a unit tasked with protecting senior officials.
Another IRGC official says: “It is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach.”
“It’s still a question for everyone how this happened, I can’t understand it. There must be something higher in the hierarchy that no one knows about,” the official adds.
I wonder if other buildings have bombs in them? Just in case he stayed at another building.
But maybe the mullahs hate the loss ham ass handed them, and set them up the bomb.
Who knows? Dissention in the ranks? Mullahs acing ham ass bigwigs? IDF knock knock missile through your window?
Sucks to be a billionaire ham ass leader abroad today!
I wonder where else they left stuff. Money talks Bull💩 walks. The Mulahas might ant to stay at a Holiday Inn.
So what did it take? $$$$?
I wonder if Mossad put this out there to cause dissension among the ranks of the IRGC.
Free the Persian people you stupid stinking Islamo apes!
OR, they had nothing to do with it, and the Mossad is just ratf*ing the IRGC... 8^)
The possibilities are endless.
Fear!
Uncertainty!
Doubt!
Brilliant psyops either way.
Yes! Iran should execute all of them!
Better article here, summarizing the NYT via Times of Israel:
The explosion that killed Ismail Haniyeh and his bodyguard early Wednesday was set off by a sophisticated, remote-controlled bomb smuggled about two months ago into the Hamas leader’s room at the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, The New York Times reported Thursday.
The report cited one American and seven Middle Eastern officials, including two members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. It contradicted earlier reports, including by the IRGC’s Tasnim news agency, that a missile had killed Haniyeh. It also cited officials from the United States and the Middle East as saying or assessing that Israel was behind the blast.
According to three Iranian officials cited by the Times, the assassination is a “tremendous embarrassment” for the IRGC, which runs the guesthouse where Haniyeh and other dignitaries were staying.
Haniyeh was in Tehran for the swearing-in of Iran’s newly elected president Masoud Pezeshkian. Jerusalem has neither confirmed nor denied the assassination, but Iran has vowed to exact revenge on Israel.
The IRGC officials cited by the Times noted that while the explosion shattered windows and collapsed a portion of the wall of the compound, there was minimal damage to the building itself. The New York Times said the limited scope of the damage was corroborated by photographs reviewed by the newspaper.
According to the Times, this indicated the blast was unlikely to have been caused by a missile strike, as had been reported. A missile would also have difficulty breaching Iran’s air defenses, the newspaper said.
The blast did not badly damage the room next to Haniyeh’s, which housed Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziad Nakhaleh, two Iranian officials told the Times. According to the newspaper, this suggested “precise planning” in targeting Haniyeh.
Middle Eastern officials told the Times that the blast’s precision required months of planning and extensive surveillance.
Two Iranian officials said they did not know how or when the bomb was smuggled into Haniyeh’s room, though five of the Middle Eastern officials said it was planted there roughly two months ago.
According to the Times, five Middle Eastern officials said that “Israeli intelligence officials briefed the United States and other Western governments on the details of the operation in the immediate aftermath.”
The report also said that several US officials had reached the “assessment” that Israel was responsible for the assassination.
The IRGC members cited by the Times said the precision of the hit was reminiscent of the remote-operated machine gun that a Mossad team used to kill top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in 2020. The five Middle Eastern officials said that the explosive that killed Haniyeh had been detonated from afar.
Haniyeh was staying in an IRGC compound called Neshat in an affluent north Tehran neighborhood. The compound is said to be used for retreats, secret meetings and “housing prominent guests” such as Haniyeh.
According to the report, the compound’s medical staff rushed to Haniyeh’s room after the bomb exploded, at about 2 a.m. local time, and declared him dead on the spot. They also declared his bodyguard dead after trying to revive him.
Senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Hayya also came to the scene, where he saw Haniyeh’s body, the five Middle Eastern officials told the Times.
The three Iranian officials said that Gen. Ismail Ghaani, the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, was immediately notified of the explosion. He woke up Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and notified him that Haniyeh had been killed.
A handout picture provided by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him (R) meeting with leaders of the Palestinian Hamas movement Ismail Haniyeh (C) and the Islamic Jihad group Ziad Nakhaleh in Tehran on July 30, 2024. (Khamenei.Ir/AFP)
Israel vowed to kill Haniyeh and other leaders of Hamas after the Gaza-based terror group’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.
The hit on Haniyeh came a month after an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza’s Khan Younis hit Hamas military leader Muhammad Deif, whose death the army confirmed Thursday.
Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander (left), who was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on July 30, 2024, is seen with Hassan Nasrallah (right) in an undated photo. (Hezbollah media office)
It came hours after Israel killed Hezbollah’s most senior commander Fuad Shukr in a missile strike for which it claimed responsibility in Beirut. Israel said Shukry, who was also wanted by the US, was responsible for a Hezbollah missile strike that killed 12 children in the Druze village of Majdal Shams on Saturday.
I do not believe this. Israel or their agents would never reveal this information nor would those involved as death sucks.
I have no idea why this is said but it is not true. The only time Mossad reveals information is so it is to their advantage and this is rare. This did not happen.
Don’t eat the oatmeal...
No masses of them will be executed....lol. Well played.
No. That was before Bidenflation. Now it’s $$$$$.
True. “Seeds of doubt sown in a garden of azzholes”. Raylon Givens used that expression with Tim Gutterson on Justified but I believe the author Elmore Leonard coined it. Just enough doubt to start some 💩.
Psyop maybe but it has a nice ring to it. :-)
Could be why this story story was planted in the Telegraph.
Ramadan Inn.
“This did not happen.”
Story is too pat. They left the explosives in the room for months on the off chance he would use the very same room again? Then infiltrate agents back in to detonate in hopes that the explosives hadn’t been found yet? Nope, a good intelligence agency would never count on luck like that.
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