Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran

Hamas’ political leader Ismail Haniyeh has been killed in the Iranian capital Tehran, the Palestinian group has said in a statement, Al-Jazeera reports.

Hamas has said that Haniyeh was killed in “a treacherous Zionist raid on his residence in Tehran”.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has confirmed that Haniyeh was killed alongside one of his bodyguards, Iranian state media reports.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has released a statement saying it is investigating the assassination of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh at his residence in Iran’s capital Tehran.

"The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas mourns to our great Palestinian people, to the Arab and Islamic nation, and to all the free people of the world: Brother, leader, martyr, Mujahid Ismail Haniyeh," a statement from Hamas reads.

Haniyeh had travelled to Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday.

The two leaders were pictured together in official photographs released by the Iranian presidency.

Pezeshkian was sworn in as Iran’s ninth president after his predecessor Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash in May.