Three sources tell the New York Times that the order was issued at a meeting of Iran’s National Security Council this morning.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has given the order to strike directly at Israel, say three unnamed Iranian official sources for the New York Times.
Three sources tell the newspaper that the Ayatollah gave the order at a meeting of Iran’s National Security Council this morning. The political leader of the extremist organization Hamas Ismail Haniyya was killed in an Israeli attack in Tehran in the early hours of the morning.
Two of the paper’s sources are members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Power in Iran is concentrated in the Ayatollah, who is also the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces.