ROARING MARCHES
Crowds, together with ladies shrouded in black, carried posters of Haniyeh and Palestinian flags in a procession and ceremony that started at Tehran College, an AFP correspondent reported.
Senior Iranian officers, together with President Masoud Pezeshkian and Revolutionary Guards chief Basic Hossein Salami, attended the ceremony, state tv photographs confirmed.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards introduced the day earlier than that Haniyeh and a bodyguard were killed in a pre-dawn strike Wednesday on their lodging in Tehran.
The New York Occasions nevertheless reported, citing nameless sources together with two Iranian officers, that the blast was attributable to an explosive system planted a number of months in the past.
When requested concerning the report, Israeli navy spokesman Daniel Hagari advised reporters “there was no different Israeli aerial assault … in all of the Center East” on the evening of Shukr’s killing.
Qatar-based Haniyeh had been visiting Tehran for Pezeshkian’s swearing-in on Tuesday.