Tehran (IP) - The head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed in Tehran early on Wednesday.

Iran PressIran news: Ismail Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards were killed when their residence was targeted in Tehran, according to a statement released by the IRGC.

"With condolences to the heroic nation of Palestine and the Islamic nation and the combatants of the Resistance Front and the noble nation of Iran, early on Wednesday the residence of Dr. Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political office of the Islamic Resistance of Hamas, was hit in Tehran, and following this incident, he and one of his bodyguards were martyred," the statement reads.

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