The cowardly assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran marks a significant point in the hybrid warfare of Israel against Iran and the Axis of Resistance. This incident, occurring on the night of Masoud Pezeshkian’s inauguration as the new president of Iran, is by no means coincidental. It aligns with the strategic objectives of Israel against the Axis of Resistance, which is led by the Islamic Republic of Iran. As the positions taken by Western and Israeli think tanks and research institutes indicate, one of the main objectives of this terrorist act was to pose political and security challenges for the new Iranian government, disrupting the government’s ability to focus on priority political and economic issues and hindering it from fulfilling its promises. Therefore, this assassination has several dimensions that must be addressed with an intelligent response, leveraging various capacities of the Resistance Front.
