IRGC Quds Force Chief Visits Hamas Office in Tehran


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force Brigadier General Esmaeil Qaani visited the office of the Islamic Resistance Movement in Tehran to offer his condolences on the loss of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

General Qaani paid a visit to the office of Hamas in Tehran on Wednesday morning.

Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf also visited the Hamas office to express his condolences on the martyrdom of Sinwar in Gaza.

Yahya Sinwar was killed in combat in Gaza with the Israeli military on October 16.

Sinwar’s death followed Israeli assassinations of a number of other Hamas leaders and commanders.

He was named the group’s leader on August 6 as a successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran on July 31.