Impressive intelligence

The NY Times reports:

Ismail Haniyeh, a top leader of Hamas, was assassinated on Wednesday by an explosive device covertly smuggled into the Tehran guesthouse where he was staying, according to seven Middle Eastern officials, including two Iranians, and an American official.

The bomb had been hidden approximately two months ago in the guesthouse, according to five of the Middle Eastern officials. The guesthouse is run and protected by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and is part of a large compound, known as Neshat, in an upscale neighborhood of northern Tehran.

Mr. Haniyeh was in Iran’s capital for the presidential inauguration. 

An impressive intelligence operation to be able to not just infiltrate a hostile country, but get inside a secure compound and leave a bomb there for two months.

The timing is interesting as it was around two months ago the Iranian President died in a helicopter crash. Now a great conspiracy theory would Mossad killed the Iranian President, so that the Hamas leader would come to Iran for the new President inauguration!

More likely is then when the President died, Mossad realised the election and inauguration of a new President would be an opportunity to target the terrorist leader, and immediately set to work to get the bomb in place.