Iran may rethink reprisal for Israel’s killing of Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh

Iran may be rethinking the scale and format of its planned reprisal against Israel in the wake of the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, but is not likely to be put off by the absence of explicit support from Muslim states for an Iranian military response, the Guardian has learned.

Iran appears to be trying to target those responsible for the attack, specifically the Mossad and its agencies, rather than civilians.

At a meeting of the Organisation of Islamic…