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Report: Mossad Hired Iranian Agents to Plant Bombs in Haniyeh's Residence in Tehran
(Telegraph-UK) Akhtar Makoii - Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, hired Iranian security agents to plant explosives in three separate rooms of a building where Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was staying, the Telegraph has learned. The original plan was to target Haniyeh in May when he attended the funeral of Ebrahim Raisi, Iran's former president. Instead, the two agents placed explosive devices in three rooms of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp (IRGC) guesthouse in north Tehran where Haniyeh might stay. The agents were seen as they entered and exited multiple rooms within minutes, according to the officials who have CCTV footage of the building. The operatives are then said to have snuck out of the country but had a source still in Iran. On Wednesday, they detonated the explosives from abroad in the room where Haniyeh was staying. An official within the IRGC told the Telegraph, "They are now certain that Mossad hired agents from the Ansar al-Mahdi protection unit," an IRGC unit responsible for the safety of high-ranking officials. "Upon further investigation, they discovered additional explosive devices in two other rooms." There is now an internal blame game taking over the IRGC, with different sectors accusing each other of the failure, revealed the official. Esmail Qaani, the commander of the IRGC Quds force, has been summoning people to be fired, arrested and possibly executed, he said. He added that for the Supreme Leader, "addressing the security breach is now more important than seeking revenge."