On Wednesday morning, the political leader of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated at his home in Tehran. He led the terrorist organization from Qatar.

Hamas confirmed on its official Telegram account the Iranian TV report that Haniyeh, along with one of his guards, was killed at his Tehran residence in the attack.

According to a statement from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, "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, this morning [Wednesday] the residence of Mr. 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."

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Hamas has blamed Israel for the attack. Israel previously pledged to kill Haniyeh and other architects of the Palestinian terrorist group's Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state that killed over 1,200 civilians and saw over 250 others taken hostage.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Haniyeh was in the country for the swearing-in of the new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. According to the outlet, his Gaza home was hit by an IDF airstrike in November while it was being used by Hamas terrorists as part of their infrastructure and his home in Qatar is being used by other members of Hamas leadership. 

This is a developing story and will be updated.