Marc Finaud, Associate Fellow at the GCSP at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), says Haniyeh s assassination in Tehran was a brutal message both to Iran and Hamas calling for response and aggravating the risk of regional war.

Marc Finaud says the US was concerned that, as in previous cases, Iran would retaliate to such a resolution of the Board of Governors by increasing its nuclear program and moving towards the production of weapons-grade material.