TEHRAN – New Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Saturday that Iran’s response to the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will be “precise and measured”.  

Araqchi held phone talks late on Friday with the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France in which the Haniyeh assassination was raised.

“In the talks I insisted that the move of the Zionist regime in violating Iran’s security and sovereignty definitely will not go unanswered and the response of the Islamic Republic of Iran will be precise, measured and considering all necessary aspects,” ISNA quoted Araqchi as saying.

“However,” Araqchi added, “we don’t fall into possible traps and this vengeance will take place at proper time and proper way, and there is no doubt about it.”  

The foreign minister made these remarks as President Masoud Pezeshkian and his cabinet team visited the shrine of Imam Khomeini to reiterate allegiance to the ideals of the founder of the Islamic Republic.

Haniyeh who had visited Tehran to attend the official inauguration of President Pezeshkian on July 30 was assassinated in his room in northern Tehran in the early hours of July 31.