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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/world/middleeast/iran-security-response-hamas-assassination.html
Iran Arrests Dozens after Killing of Hamas Leader
(New York Times) Farnaz Fassihi - Iran has arrested more than two dozen people, including senior intelligence officers, military officials and staff workers at a military-run guesthouse in Tehran, in response to the security breach that enabled the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Wednesday, according to two Iranians. The deadly blast was viewed as a collapse of intelligence and security, a failure to protect a key ally, an inability to curb the infiltration of Mossad, and a humiliating reputational blow. It delivered a jarring realization that if Israel could target such an important guest, on a day when the capital was under heightened security, and carry out the attack at a highly secure compound equipped with bulletproof windows, air defense and radar, then no one was really safe. An Iranian member of the Revolutionary Guards said that security protocols had been completely overhauled in the past two days for senior officials.