Muhammad Sahimi is a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For the past two decades he has published extensively on Iran's political developments and its nuclear program.
Ismail Haniyeh , the political leader of Hamas , was assassinated in Tehran, widely believed by Israel . He was in Tehran to attend the ceremonies marking inauguration of Iran ’s new President, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian. The two men met before Haniyeh was killed.As of this writing, Israel has not commented on the killing or the allegations that it was behind it.In assassinating Haniyeh, Israel would have struck at two targets, not one. The second one is the new Pezeshkian administration.
During his campaign, Pezeshkian stated repeatedly that he would pursue negotiations with the United States, a position apparently supported by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in order to get the economic sanctions lifted.Dialogue between Iran and the United States is, however, the last thing that Israel, and particularly Benjamin Netanyahu, wants at this stage. If anything, Netanyahu would expand the war to Lebanon in hopes that Iran will react strongly and enter the war directly.
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