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Revolutionary Guards say Iran and proxies will respond to Haniyeh’s assassination

Head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami delivers a speech during the funeral of Razi Moussavi, a senior commander in the IRGC's Quds Force who was killed on December 25 in an alleged Israeli strike in Syria, in Tehran, on December 28, 2023. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
The assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran “will be met with a harsh and painful response,” Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards military force says in a statement.
“Iran and the resistance front will respond to this crime,” it says, employing a term Tehran uses to refer to its proxies across the Middle East.
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