{"id":43505,"date":"2024-08-01T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=43505"},"modified":"2024-08-01T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:40:17","slug":"irans-supreme-leader-khamenei-leads-funeral-prayers-for-hamas-chief-haniyeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/irans-supreme-leader-khamenei-leads-funeral-prayers-for-hamas-chief-haniyeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Khamenei leads funeral prayers for Hamas chief Haniyeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led funeral prayers for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/hamas-chief-ismail-haniyeh-killed-in-tehran-group-confirms\/\">Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh<\/a> and his security guard on Thursday, Iran&#8217;s state-run <em>Press TV<\/em> said.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">A day earlier, Hamas&#8217;s Political Bureau Chief Haniyeh and his security guard Wasim Abu Shaaban were assassinated on Wednesday morning during their visit to Tehran to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran\u2019s newly-elected <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-reformist-masoud-pezeshkian-wins-run-off-presidential-election\/\">President Masoud Pezeshkian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nwVKo\">\n<div class=\"loJjTe\">During a ceremony held at Tehran University on Thursday, Ayatollah Khamenei paid homage to the Hamas chief and his bodyguard. Massive crowds of Iranian mourners took part in the funeral procession for the assassinated Palestinian official.<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Imam Khamenei led funeral prayer for Martyr Ismail <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Haniyeh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Haniyeh<\/a> &amp; his companion <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpjWvCq3Bf\">pic.twitter.com\/vpjWvCq3Bf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Khamenei Media (@Khamenei_m) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Khamenei_m\/status\/1818888805383889136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Addressing the ceremony, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said the Israeli regime is desperate in the face of resistance fighters, <em>Press TV<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">\n<p>He added that the Tel Aviv regime\u2019s crimes are rooted in its inability to counter the resistance forces. The top Iranian parliamentarian emphasized that Israel will commit a \u201cstrategic mistake\u201d if it thinks that targeting the resistance front will have an impact on the ongoing developments in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Khamenei warned the Israeli regime of a &#8220;harsh response&#8221; to the the assassination of Haniyeh, saying it is now Iran&#8217;s duty to avenge the blood of the Palestinian resistance leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-9\">\n<p>\u201cThe criminal and terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest in our homeland and left us bereaved, but it also set the ground for a harsh punishment for itself,\u201d the Leader said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-md-12\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN: Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led funeral prayers for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and his security guard on Thursday, Iran&#8217;s state-run Press TV said. A day earlier, Hamas&#8217;s Political Bureau Chief Haniyeh and his security guard Wasim Abu Shaaban were assassinated on Wednesday morning during their visit to Tehran to attend the swearing-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":43506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,3],"tags":[10228,17281],"class_list":["post-43505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-ismail-haniyeh","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43508,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43505\/revisions\/43508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}