Iran Rejects Calls to Show Restraint After Assassination in Tehran, Houthis Also Vow Revenge
A top Houthi official, also said Iran will not be alone in its retaliatory response
Unlike the last time Israel escalated war with Iran – when it bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria – Tehran has reportedly rejected calls from the U.S. and regional countries to “temper” its response to Tel Aviv’s recent assassination campaign that claimed the life of Hamas’s top political official in Tehran, according to a report.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Tehran is still trying to figure out how Israel managed to kill Ismail Haniyeh in the city – right after the presidential inauguration. The paper, citing people familiar with the conversations, said Iran informed Arab diplomats that it did not care if its response triggered a war.
Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in an open letter to the Iranian people that the “Zionist regime” in Israel would pay for its decision to assassinate a top Hamas official who had been staying in the country to attend the new president’s inauguration.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, the moderate who sought to improve ties with the West, said the assassination was a mistake that will not go unanswered.
Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s foreign minister, visited Iran on Sunday in a “last-ditch effort to persuade it to hold back from attacking Israel,” The Guardian reported. The paper said, “The visit looks doomed to fail given that Iran insisted on Sunday that there was no room for compromise and that it would make a decisive response to the assassination.”
Ali al-Qahoum, a top Houthi official, also said Iran will not be alone in its retaliatory response, according to IRNA.
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