The Iranian "revolutionary leader" Khamenei has vowed revenge after the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.

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"New York Times" reports and cites Iranian officials.

Is the Mullah regime in Iran now attacking Israel directly?

The ruler of Iran, "Revolutionary Leader" Ali Khamenei, has ordered a direct strike against Israel, according to the New York Times. The newspaper cites three Iranian officials familiar with the matter, including two members of the Revolutionary Guard.

Eliminated: Hamas leader Ismail Haniya.

The order for the direct attack on Israel was given on Wednesday morning at an emergency meeting of the Iranian National Security Council - shortly after Ismail Haniya (61), leader of the Hamas terrorist organization in Tehran, was eliminated by the Israeli army.

Is Tehran now escalating the war against the Jewish state? Severe punishment"

"The criminal terrorist Zionist regime" will be "severely punished" after it killed "a dear guest in our house," Iranian revolutionary leader Ali Khamenei (85) cursed Israel.

It is more likely the humiliation that the Jewish state managed to eliminate Hamas leader Ismail Haniya (61) in the capital, Tehran - just hours after he celebrated the inauguration of the new Iranian president together with other terrorist leaders.

What is particularly embarrassing is that the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) were responsible for protecting Haniya in Iran. By eliminating the Hamas leader, Jerusalem had massively exposed the Revolutionary Guards - Israeli services had infiltrated the security apparatus of the mullah regime.

For Haniya itself, however, despite all the expressions of grief, the regime is unlikely to shed many tears - not only was its influence within Hamas less than that of others. For Haniya itself, however, the regime is unlikely to shed many tears despite all the expressions of grief - not only was his influence within Hamas less than others. For Haniya itself, however, the regime is unlikely to shed many tears despite all the expressions of grief - not only was his influence within Hamas less than others.

He had spoken out against the Assad regime in 2012, thereby offending Iran. Even though Hamas reconciled with Assad a few years later, Tehran is unlikely to have forgotten this.

More severe than the humiliation of Haniya's elimination, however, was Israel's air strike in Beirut six hours earlier: in a precision attack, the Israeli Air Force killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr - one of the essential cadres in Tehran's militia network, who was responsible, among other things, for Hezbollah's missile arsenal.

Former Israeli intelligence officer warns of significant war.

"We are on the brink of a major, large-scale escalation," warned Danny Citrinowicz, former head of the Iran department of the Israeli military intelligence service, to the Wall Street Journal. Iran will retaliate because the assassination showed that they were unable to protect one of the leaders of their "axis of resistance" at the inauguration of the Iranian president.

However, after the devastating Hezbollah attack on Majd al-Shams in northern Israel, in which twelve children were killed on Saturday, Israel reacted relatively cautiously by precisely eliminating two terrorist leaders and has refrained from invading southern Lebanon for the time being.

In addition, Tehran can expect the USA to support Israel in a large-scale attack - similar to April, when Tehran fired several rockets and drones at Israel, most of which were intercepted thanks to the support of the USA and other countries.

The USA was also active on the night of the Israeli double strike: In Iraq, the US Air Force eliminated several members and commanders of Kataib Hezbollah, the most potent Iraqi militia in the service of Tehran.

Therefore, a massive attack by the "Axis of Resistance” poses the risk of a significant counterattack for Tehran. Whether the Revolutionary Guards and their militias will take this risk is still being determined.