Iran held a funeral on Tuesday for the senior commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Abbas Nilforoushan, who was killed alongside Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon late last month.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated by a "short-range projectile loaded with an almost 7-kg warhead".
The death toll from Israeli missile attack last week on Iran's targets in the Syrian capital of Damascus has risen to 13, according to a war monitor.
The US military carried out an airstrike on a facility in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and groups backed by Tehran, the Defense Department said in a statement.
The detainee intended to deviate the flight toward an unspecified country on the southern shore of the Gulf, according to the statement.
"This success is a sign that strengthening the space sector in the country and the armed forces have been in a correct and effective step," he added.
On January 8, amid heightened tensions between Iran and the US, the Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight PS75 crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran killing 176 people on board.
The Pentagon in a statement confirmed the missile attack, saying 'Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against US military and coalition forces in Iraq'.
Trump said, at his direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the 'number one terrorist' anywhere in the world.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the Indian embassy in Tehran is in constant contact with the Iranian authorities to resolve the matter.
