The Jerusalem Post reports: “Israel is restoring its deterrence in the eyes of the Iranians, Iranian-Israeli journalist Babak Itzhaki of Iran International told 103FM Wednesday morning following the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

Itzhaki explained the significance of the killing of Haniyeh while he was in Tehran, describing it as a huge embarrassment for the Iranians. 

‘It seems to them like Israel is restoring its lost deterrence in the eyes of the Iranians,’ he explained. He elaborated that if Israel did this, it means they had managed to essentially send a missile into Haniyeh’s bedroom. 

‘And where? Inside Tehran, where it is supposed to be safest. In the capital of the biggest supporter of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.’

He continued, ‘The last we saw of [Haniyeh] was last night. They took him and all the leaders of the Axis of Resistance to a presentation in the heart of Tehran. And what was there? A model of al-Aqsa Mosque and the Temple Mount. And you could see him hugging the new president of Iran.’…”