Persian provocation: Hamas leader targeting wrongfoots Pezeshkian, reverberates in region (Lead)
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Masoud Pezeshkian's first full formal day as Iran's President couldn't have started on a worse note. Hours before the day dawned, Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, a guest at his inauguration, was assassinated in Tehran, exacerbating what is already a toxic situation in the Middle East.