In the hours after Haniyeh’s death, Iran reportedly held an emergency meeting of its Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday, Paralel.Az reports citing Iranian media.

Recall that the head of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran along with one of his bodyguards, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Wednesday.

Hamas announced that Haniyeh was killed in an Israeli raid on his residence in Tehran.

Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian's swear-in ceremony on Tuesday.