The mission made the remarks on Wednesday in response to questions about allegations that the country could cancel its retaliation if Tel Aviv came to an agreement with Hamas that would bring about a truce in the regime’s ongoing war of genocide against the Gaza Strip.
“We have been pursuing two priorities simultaneously,” the mission said.
“Firstly, realization of a stable ceasefire in Gaza and withdrawal of the occupiers from this territory,” it noted.
“And secondly, punishment of the aggressor over the assassination of Martyr Haniyeh, prevention of repetition of the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression, and making the Zionists regret entering this course [in the first place],” the mission concluded.
[Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Tehran]
Haniyeh, who was the Palestinian resistance movement’s Political Bureau chief, was assassinated alongside one of his bodyguards in the Iranian capital Tehran late last month.
The Israeli regime has denied responsibility, but Iran has held it squarely responsible for the atrocity and vowed to serve it with a harsh response.
Earlier on Wednesday, Iran's acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani repeated the country’s resolve to respond to the regime.
The country had no option but to retaliate against the regime over the assassination, said Bagheri, who was addressing an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. This was necessary to deter further aggression against the Islamic Republic amid inaction by the UN Security Council, he added.
Haniyeh’s assassination came amid the regime’s October-present war on Gaza, which has so far claimed the lives of at least 39,677 Palestinians, mostly women, children, and adolescents.
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