Iran’s Leader Orders Attack on Israel for Haniyeh Killing, Officials Say

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Iran’s Leader Orders ******* on ******* for Haniyeh ********, Officials Say

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has issued an order for Iran to strike ******* directly, in retaliation for the ******** in Tehran of ******’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, according to three Iranian officials briefed on the order.

Mr. Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday morning, shortly after Iran announced that Mr. Haniyeh had been *******, said the three Iranian officials, including two members of the Revolutionary Guards. They asked that their names not be published because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Iran and ****** have accused ******* of the **************; *******, which is at war with ****** in the Gaza Strip, has neither acknowledged nor denied ******** Mr. Haniyeh, who was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new president. ******* has a long history of ******** enemies abroad, including Iranian nuclear scientists and military commanders.

Through almost 10 months of war in Gaza, Iran has tried to strike a balance, putting pressure on ******* with sharply increased attacks by its allies and proxy forces in the region, while avoiding an all-out war between the two nations.

In April, Iran made its biggest and most overt ******* on ******* in decades of hostility, launching hundreds of missiles and drones in retaliation for an ******** strike on its embassy compound that ******* several Iranian military commanders in Damascus, Syria. But even that show of force was telegraphed well in advance, nearly all the weapons were shot down by ******* and its allies, and little damage was done.

Now it is unclear how forcefully Iran will respond, and whether it will once again calibrate its ******* to steer clear of escalation. Iranian military commanders are considering another combination ******* of drones and missiles on military targets in the vicinity of Tel Aviv and Haifa, but would make a point of avoiding strikes on civilian targets, the Iranian officials said. One option under consideration is a coordinated ******* from Iran and other fronts where it has allied forces, including Yemen, Syria and Iraq, for maximum effect, they said.

Mr. Khamenei, who has the last word on all state matters and is also the commander in chief of the armed forces, instructed military commanders from the Revolutionary Guards and the army to prepare plans for both an ******* and a defense in the event that the war expands and ******* or the ******* States strike Iran, the officials said.

In his public statement about Mr. Haniyeh’s ******, Mr. Khamenei signaled that Iran would retaliate directly, saying, “we see avenging his blood our duty,” because it happened on the territory of the Islamic Republic. He said ******* had set the stage for receiving “a severe punishment.”

Statements from other Iranian officials, including the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, the foreign ministry, the Guards and Iran’s mission to the U.N., also said openly that Iran would retaliate against ******* and that it had a right to defend itself against a transgression on its sovereignty.

Iran and the regional forces it backs — ******, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and multiple militias in Iraq — form what they call the “axis of resistance.” Leaders of those groups were in Tehran for the inauguration of Mr. Pezeshkian on Tuesday. Mr. Haniyeh was assassinated at about 2 a.m. local time, after attending the ceremony and meeting with Mr. Khamenei.

The ******** shocked Iranian officials, who described it as crossing red lines.

It was a humiliating security breach for a country eager to project strength but long frustrated by its inability to prevent ******* from carrying out covert operations on its soil. The embarrassment was compounded by Mr. Haniyeh’s prominence, the presence of other allies, and that he was attacked at a highly secure Revolutionary Guards guesthouse on a day of heightened security in the capital.

Many Iranian supporters of the government and officials expressed outrage at the ******** to thwart the **************, saying only a handful of senior security officials would have known where Mr. Haniyeh was staying. Some took to social media to say that Iran’s first priority should be to clean house and ensure the safety of its senior officials.

“Before revenge first ensure the safety of the supreme leader,” said Alireza Katebi Jahromi, a journalist and supporter of Iran’s government,

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Iranian officials don’t view Mr. Haniyeh’s ************** as just *******’s opportunistic ******** of one of its foes, but also as an affront to their security apparatus that suggests anyone in Iran, at any level, could be targeted and *******.

Analysts said that Iran sees retaliation as necessary for both avenging the ******** of Mr. Haniyeh but also deterrence against ******* ******** other powerful enemies, like Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, or Gen. Ismail Qaani, the commander of the Quds Forces who oversees the militant groups outside Iran.

“Iran likely believes it has no choice other than retaliating to deter further ******** attacks, defend its sovereignty, and preserve its credibility in the eyes of its regional partners,” said Ali Vaez, the Iran director of the International Crisis Group.

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