‘Our duty to respond at the right time, in the right place’: Revenge pledged at Haniyeh’s Tehran funeral ceremony

Iranians take part in a funeral ceremony for Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on August 1, 2024 (AFP)
Iranians take part in a funeral ceremony for Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, on August 1, 2024 (AFP)

Calls for revenge are heard at the Tehran funeral ceremony for Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, killed yesterday in a strike in Iran blamed on Israel.

Senior Hamas figure Khalil al-Hayya, the terror group’s foreign relations chief, vows that “Ismail Haniyeh’s slogan, ‘We will not recognize Israel,’ will remain an immortal slogan” and “we will pursue Israel until it is uprooted from the land of Palestine.”

Iran’s conservative parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says Iran “will certainly carry out the supreme leader’s order [to avenge Haniyeh].”

“It is our duty to respond at the right time and in the right place,” he says in a speech with crowds chanting “Death to Israel, Death to America!”

The caskets, with a black-and-white pattern resembling a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, were borne on a flower-bedecked truck, as machines sprayed cooling mists of water on the flag-waving crowds.

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