'Wait for harsh punishment' billboard goes up in Tehran

(JTA) - Hours after the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran, a building-sized poster went up in the city's Palestine Square that featured the national language of Iran's sworn enemy Israel.

"Wait for harsh punishment," the billboard said in Hebrew, atop a massive portrait of Haniyeh, whose funeral took place Thursday. Haniyeh is shown in front of the Dome of the Rock, a Muslim holy place on Jerusalem's Temple Mount.

The poster offered a powerful symbol of what unnamed Iranian officials told the New York Times late Wednesday: that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini...