Breitbart.com reports: “Iranian state media praised Hamas ‘political chief’ Ismail Haniyeh on Wednesday as a key figure who pushed Israel to the ‘brink of extinction,’ celebrating the explicitly genocidal intent of Hamas leadership hours after an airstrike eliminated Haniyeh in the early morning hours of the day.

Haniyeh was in Tehran on Tuesday for the inauguration of new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and was seen embracing the new president and later holding a personal meeting with ‘Supreme Leader’ Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Hamas is a Sunni jihadist terror organization headquartered in Gaza which relies heavily on Iranian funding for its survival. Iranian leaders enthusiastically support Hamas’s goal of destroying the state of Israel and eradicating Jews from the Middle East. The State Department recently estimated that Iran invests $100 million in Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations a year.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, confirmed on Wednesday that the residence housing Haniyeh was hit by a ‘projectile,’ killing the Hamas leader. The statement did not mention any other casualties. Iranian leaders later blamed ‘Zionists’ for the attack, though at press time no state or entity has taken responsibility for the strike…”