{"id":30322,"date":"2024-08-10T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30322"},"modified":"2024-08-10T19:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T16:27:06","slug":"iran-to-avoid-harming-gaza-cease-fire-talks-retaliation-for-haniyeh-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/10\/iran-to-avoid-harming-gaza-cease-fire-talks-retaliation-for-haniyeh-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to Avoid Harming Gaza Cease-fire talks, Retaliation for Haniyeh Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran on Saturday said it wanted to avoid negatively impacting Gaza cease-fire talks with its anticipated retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh last month.<br \/>\nAchieving a permanent cease-fire in Gaza remains a priority, Iran&#8217;s permanent mission to the UN said in a statement following inquiries about whether Tehran would delay its retaliation plans for the planned cease-fire talks.<br \/>\nIt also said that any agreement accepted by Hamas would be acceptable to Iran as well.<br \/>\nThe statement condemned Haniyeh&#8217;s assassination in Tehran as a &#8220;violation of Iranian national security and sovereignty.&#8221;<br \/>\nIran emphasized its right to self-defense but stressed that it hopes its response would not impede the ongoing cease-fire efforts.<br \/>\nThe Iranian statement comes amid heightened tensions following Haniyeh&#8217;s assassination on July 31, as well as earlier Israeli strikes in Beirut that killed Fouad Shukr, a senior commander of Lebanese group Hezbollah.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, leaders from Egypt, Qatar, and the US called for resuming cease-fire and hostage exchange talks between Israel and Hamas, scheduled for either Wednesday or Thursday next week in Doha or Cairo.<br \/>\nThe Israeli onslaught against the Gaza Strip has killed nearly 39,700 people since last October following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.<br \/>\nMore than 10 months into the Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.<br \/>\nIsrael is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Iran on Saturday said it wanted to avoid negatively impacting Gaza cease-fire talks with its anticipated retaliation against Israel over the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh last month. Achieving a permanent cease-fire in Gaza remains a priority, Iran&#8217;s permanent mission to the UN said in a statement following &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30323,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30322\/revisions\/30323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}