Iran’s leader ‘orders direct strike on Israel’ in retaliation for ‘assassination’ of Hamas chief amid all-out war fears

IRAN has ordered an attack on Israel following the killing of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh, Iranian officials have said.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, issued the order during an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday morning, just after Iran claimed that Haniyeh had been slain.

Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a suspected Israeli strike on Monday

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Ismail Haniyeh with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has vowed to seek revenge for his death[/caption]

Iran, a staunch backer of Hamas, said it is “Tehran’s duty” to seek “revenge for Ismail Haniyeh’s blood” after he was killed in the capital.

The Middle East is now teetering at its most tumultuous point since the October 7 massacre last year which sparked a brutal war in Gaza.

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