The Tabiat Bridge in Tehran – the largest pedestrian bridge in Iran and 1 of the favourite walking and household holidays sites of the muslim Republic capital – was highlighted to purple-red as a sign of bloody vengeance for the execution of the erstwhile day in Iran the head of Hamas Ismail Haniya's political office.
On Wednesday, the Palestinian Hamas movement reported the death of the head of the political office of the Ismail Hanija movement as a consequence of an Israeli attack on his residence in Tehran, where he arrived to participate in the inauguration of the fresh president of Iran. The movement held Israel and the United States liable for Hanija's death and announced that the attack would not stay unanswered.
Above the bridge is simply a black mourning banner resembling Hosein ibn Ali, the grandson of the Prophet of Islam, who died tragically in the conflict of Kerbala in Iraq in the 7th century AD. all year during the period of Muharram, 1 of the 4 months of the muslim calendar, during which, according to faith, all conflicts, wars and disputes are prohibited, the capital, like another populated areas of Iran, is dressed in mourning. This year, the conventional mourning of Imama Hoseina was joined by the mourning of president Ebrahim Raisim, who died in a chopper crash in May and just a day earlier, last Wednesday, the mourning of Ismail Hanija, the second commander-in-chief of Hamas.
Despite the expanding escalation in the region and the three-day mourning period announced in Iran in connection with the death of Hania, the people of Tehran, as on average days, brought their full families to the park close the bridge Tabiat on a weekend evening to remainder and meet with loved ones. Children and adults eat meals sitting on blankets spread out on the lawn and asphalt paths and play sports games specified as badminton, football and volleyball loudly. usually in the evenings, this openwork bridge boasts all the possible colors the lighting strategy has to offer, but present it is completely flooded with purple-red color.
An extraordinary gathering of the UN safety Council was held in Moscow on Wednesday evening to discuss the deteriorating situation in the mediate East, including the Tehran incident.
Earlier, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said there was nothing to say about the death of Hamas Politburo chief and Israel's engagement in the matter. Representatives of the Israeli army declared in turn that they "did not respond to media reports" about Hanija's murder. "The Jerusalem Post" wrote that the Israeli authorities instructed ministers not to comment on the assassination of Hamas' leader.
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The bridge in Tehran was highlighted red as a sign of revenge