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By bne Gulf bureau bne Tehran bureau Ismail Haniyeh, the prominent Hamas leader, has been killed in Tehran. Early indications suggest that Haniyeh and his bodyguards were killed when a rocket struck the house where he was staying in the Iranian capital. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement that Haniyeh and one of his bodyguards died when their residence in northern Tehran was struck by an aerial projectile at approximately 2 a.m. local time. Unconfirmed reports suggest the projectile was launched from outside of Iranian territory, the location of which hasn’t been r…

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