Revenge against Israel for the murder of the Hamas leader has faded into the background amid the revealed problems with internal security. A “blame game” has begun between units of the IRGC.
Iran has announced that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad recruited agents from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ansar al-Mahdi unit in Tehran, responsible for the security of high-ranking officials. They were the ones who planted explosives in three separate rooms of a guest house in Tehran where the leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was staying. He arrived in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of the new president, Masoud Pezeshkian.
The Telegraph writes about this.
The publication, citing two anonymous Iranian officials, writes that Haniyeh was planned to be eliminated back in May, during the funeral of the previous Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. But due to the large crowd of people inside the building and the high probability of failure, the operation was canceled.
According to officials, investigators have recordings from surveillance cameras in the guest house, which recorded how agents secretly entered and exited several rooms for several minutes, including Haniyeh's bedroom and two other rooms where explosives were also found.
The IRGC spokesman said the agents fled the country after planting the bomb, but a coordinator likely remained on site. That same night, one of the explosive devices, located in Haniyeh’s room, was detonated by a remote signal from abroad. The Hamas leader was killed in the blast.
“This is a humiliation for Iran and a huge security breach. It is still a question for everyone how this happened. I cannot understand. There must be something higher up in the hierarchy that no one knows about,” another IRGC official told the publication in an anonymous conversation.
He added that the security forces have created a working group to develop ideas that would make it possible to present Haniyeh's murder as unrelated to a security breach.
According to the sources, an “internal blame game” is currently unfolding within the IRGC, with different sectors blaming each other for the failure.
IRGC Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani said the security breach had “humiliated everyone” and called for those responsible to be “fired, arrested and possibly executed.”
Sources say that even Israel's revenge has faded into the background in light of the details of the Hamas leader's murder that have been revealed.
“The Supreme Leader has summoned all commanders several times over the past two days, he wants answers. “It is more important for him now to eliminate the security breach than to seek revenge,” one of the publication's sources noted.
Recall that Iran is threatening to strike Israel, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says, in order to avenge the murder of the political leader of the terrorist group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. US intelligence expects an even larger attack, including on American bases, in which Lebanese Hezbollah may also take part, than the first direct strike with missiles and drones from Iranian territory on Israel in mid-April this year.
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