A new nugget of information relating to Wednesday’s assassination of one of Hamas’s leaders while he was in Iran: while early media reports coming out of Iran stated he was killed in a strategic, precise airstrike, the New York Times reports that Ismail Haniyeh was actually killed by a bomb that had been planted in the guesthouse he was staying in about two months ago.
Confirmed by multiple officials including one American and two Iranians, the report outlines that the bomb was smuggled into the compound run by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard in northern Teheran. The political leader of Hamas working out of Qatar, Haniyeh had stayed at the guesthouse during previous trips to Teheran.