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Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei ordered Iran to strike Israel directly: NYT

The New York Times published a report on Wednesday saying that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing in Tehran of Hamas’s leader, Ismail Haniyeh.

The NYT report says that the information is sourced from three Iranian officials briefed on the order, including two members of the Revolutionary Guards.