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- August 9, 2024
- 10:09 pm
- Middle East
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is pushing for strikes on Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities in response to the killing of Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh, but Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is offering less radical options, The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing unnamed aides to the Iranian president.
“*Pezeshkian fears that any direct attack on Israel would have serious consequences*,” one of the newspaper's sources said. That's why, according to his aides, the Iranian president would prefer, for example, to strike secret Israeli military installations in other countries. The president also proposed arming Lebanon's Hezbollah with more advanced weapons and “letting them fight,” according to one of the aides.
The *IRGC*, according to the newspaper, considers it necessary to strike military targets in Israeli cities.
The Supreme Commander of the *IRGC* is not *Pezeshkian*, but the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile, according to the Mehr news agency, the commander of the Quds Force of the *IRGC*, Ismail Qaani, in a letter to the new leader of the Hamas political bureau, Yahya Sinwar, said that the assassination of Haniyeh would lead to “harsh revenge on the Zionist regime.”
On Thursday, *Peseschkian* told French President Emmanuel Macron that Iran has the right to respond to Haniyeh's killing, but stressed that “the Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its duty to avoid war and make every effort to establish peace and security.”
The Middle East has become increasingly tense following the assassination last week of Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's senior adviser Fuad Shukr in Beirut. Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to avenge their deaths.
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