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management specialists, your plan can be customized. you expert care and ongoing support. that's health care as it should be. get started at for hertz.com this situation room with wolf listen tomorrow with six on cnn breaking news here on cnn, a major development in the middle east. hamas says the political leader of the organization, the u.s. calls a terror group, has been killed in tehran so far, the israeli military is only saying they do not respond to reports in the farm brian media, the white house says it is aware of the reports and is monitoring it. this comp does israel and hamas were locked intense negotiations to free dozens of hostages still held in gaza by hamas. let's go to cnn's paula hancocks live in abu dhabi. paula, what more do you know? >> well, laura, this is a very significant development, is male honey av political leader of hamas, killed in tehran.

this according to the islamic revolutionary guard corps, it's been confirmed as well by a hamas statement saying that he was killed in a residence in the iranian capital as he was in town for the inauguration of the new iranian leader. now we know that that inauguration of iran's new president was on tuesday. we don't have an exact timing of when this killing took place. but it was the early hours of wednesday when the news emerged. now, it is a significant development. we have heard, as you say, that israel is saying it does not comment on foreign news media reports, not an unexpected response from the idf. it is one we have heard before when we've been these reports of high profile killings in other countries of hamas or even hezbollah leaders but everyone in the region does believe that

israel is behind this. israel has made it very clear from october 7 after that hamas attack in israel that all of hamas leadership was considered a target, that it would be going after the political and the military leadership of hamas. now we know with ismail haniyeh that his residence in gaza city was attacked by an israeli air strike just one month after those october 7 attacks we also know that several months ago, a number of his children were killed in gaza as well. so his family has also been considered a target. now is male honea himself has been out of gaza for some years now. he has been living being largely in doha, qatar. he has been free to travel around the region. we know he has been to tear her on a number of times. he has been to turkiye and so the fact that this has happened in the heart of iran is very

significant. the fact that the assassination was a people to take place, that the intelligence was able to be gathered in tehran itself is certainly something that is going to send a chill through the hamas organization. now it is not the first time that the leadership has been targeted. we know that the military number two in gaza mohammed deif for israel, believes they killed him just recently. also, back in january sully al-arouri's who was really considered a deputy political leader of hamas, was also assassinated in beirut so this is not the first time that this has happened, but certainly the fact that it is the political leader of hamas is a significant target. he has been very vocal. he has been very visible over recent months, not least, when it comes to negotiations for a potential

hostage deal to release israeli hostages from gaza and a ceasefire deal, which those discussions are ongoing. one can only imagine that this could well stall those at least in the short term. laura paula hancocks, please standby. we have seen and political analysts and foreign policy analyst, barak ravid on the phone. brat, what are your sources telling you this is very consequential yes, it is very consequential and just, you know, just to understand how this assassination happened according to the iranian media, there new details that are being published some sort of aircraft fired the missile into a nia's bit groom through the window and kill them you really need to have very good intelligence and very good operational capabilities to conduct such an operation this

is when you add that to the assassination of hezbollah's military leader in beirut, and twin airstrike conducted by the u.s military in iraq against pro iranian militias this is a very bad day for the pro iranian access in the region and he usually, when iran gets hit like that, there is a retaliation sometimes it's immediate, sometimes it takes time, and i think that the radians are now starting to work on how are they going to respond? on both directly and through their proxies in the region for that wave or for debt series of its, that they just gotten the last 24 hours. and another interesting point the white house taught me the least official, brett mcgurk is now in the region. he had talks yesterday in saudi arabia, headed that, the litigation of all the top middle east

officials in the biden ministration. they were in saudi arabia to talk about secretion yemen and the houthis is going to egypt later today and he's there while the whole region is getting more and more and more tense and i think it will be very interesting to see whether mcgurk changes his plans and goes to israel. and other countries in the region from egypt may be to doha in qatar, maybe to other places. >> but his visiting the region is in a very interesting timing. barack is his presence in the region. does it make his safety more precarious at this juncture again, i think, i'm pretty sure that you know, he's taking all the needed 60 measures, but i think it's just so be very interesting to see how the region is going to

react to this series of events that are very, very dramatic and i don't think when i think about this is one of the most dramatic days in the war since october 7, and its dramatic because it's not only in gaza, it's in beirut, it's in tehran. >> and what we were seeing right now is how the whole region right now is engulfed in this crisis. >> cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson is joining me as well. nic, what does this mean for the entire organization of hamas? i mean, this is one man. he is a very important one among the organization. there are other leaders though there are, i mean, one thing is to immediately have yahya sinwar, who's the most important described by israeli officials as a dead man walking days after the october 7 attacks by

hamas, the main leader of hamas who's believed to be hiding out in tunnels in gaza it's significant in a way that israel has the ability to reach into tehran to take out a hamas political leader there, one who lives in exile and is an important of vital interlocutor so far in the tools on the hostages and also be able to reach him, to reach into beirut the new year or around the new year to take out hamas's top figure there region to beirut just yesterday to take out perhaps the number two in the hezbollah command structure after, after their supreme leader so it's significant that yahya sinwar is still able to hide out. >> and so far as we know, as far as we know, avoid israel strikes inside of gaza. i think that's one thing, but i think when we think about the

consequences and the symbolism of taking out a ismail haniyeh in inside of tehran. >> we have to look at the reason that he was there. >> i mean, he's been to tehran before iran is widely seen as bank rolling supporting ideologically behind hamas, helping them prepare for that brutal october 7 attacks, but the reason that he was in tehran now was to be there to the inauguration of iran's new president following the death of their president a few months ago. in a helicopter crash, there were elections and it was understood that of the candidates running it was there's sort of most moderate candidate that was put forward are allowed to run by the supreme council in iran who won the elections. >> and this ismail haniyeh was there visiting him, watching his inauguration. so when you understand that iran struck

back directly at israel for what it described as a targeted strike on a diplomatic compound inside of damascus earlier this earlier this year, this when israel took out a assassinated one of the top interlocutors between tehran, one of the senior most senior islamic republic revolutionary guard corps leaders helping to run the war in the region for iran when they, when they cope, when tehran called that an attack on their diplomatic compound this is, this is a strike, not just in tehran, not just at a senior figure of hamas. but at a time when he was there, when iran was enjoying the inauguration of it a new president. this is, will be seen by them most likely as an absolute diplomatic slap in the face, not just the assassination of

hernia but when it was done and where it was done, the timing and symbolism of it is really going to strike a strike hard and tehran i would for this reason kind to calculate their response at this time. one can imagine that it will be strong and it will be will be with passion, where and how as barak ravid was saying, we just don't know i want to bring everyone up to speed and what we've been learning tonight in this breaking news story, the hamas political leader ismail haniah has been killed and touran here is what we know. >> this was a 62-year-old man who he joined hamas in the late 1980s. he also grew in power as the hamas organization became more powerful, he was increasing in his ranks. he had been a part of the secret collective leadership at one zero point in time, he became chief of the group in 2017. it was actually named a special

specially designated global terrorist by united states soon thereafter, he has been a apart since the 80s, even engaging in peace talks within former president jimmy carter. he was in iran, in tehran attending the inauguration of the brand new president there he's also known to be one of the chief interlocutors between qatar and egypt in terms of hostage negotiations. members of his family had been killed back in april as well. oh we are knowing now that he has been killed in iran, the white house has been made aware, but they have not made an official comment from about what has happened and this just in a hamas official has released a statement saying that the killing of their political leader, quote will not pass in vain unquote the statement goes on to say that the assassination of leader ismail haniah was a cowardly act. i want to bring back in bobby ghosh. bobby, what is your reaction to that statement tonight? calling this an act of cowardice, and that will not remain in vain well the

statement itself is only to be expected. >> i think you will hear stronger language in the hours and days ahead, but more important than the statement is what action iran will pick, what kind of retaliation it will seek. we have to the remind us house that in april when israel struck against iranian targets in in syria, iran sort of crossed a rubicon by firing something like 300 missiles and drones in the direction of israel. now that was a a showpiece that was staged in a way. there was plenty of advanced warning. iran was, israel was able to use its own defenses to basically take out all those, most of those projectiles in the air before they were able to 20 damage but as i say, iran cross a rubicon that day by hiring growth frankly, it israel now that that that has been across the next reaction from iran, the pressure will on

iran now will be to do something even more spectacular. and perhaps less predictable. and that's the thing to watch out for. but israel would have known this the israeli military will be preparing itself for some kind of retaliation both in the direction of lebanon to its immediate not but also from iran directly. as will also mean that united states military assets in the region will have to be on very high alert all across the middle east because they will also be a fears of retaliation against the united states. so tensions will be in a region that's already very tense and suspensions will be at a unprecedented levels for the next few days. >> a political leader in hamas has been killed this evening. we're also learning that this is one of the three hamas leaders that had an arrest warrant issued against him by

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held in gaza by hamas. let's get right to ben wedeman, who is in beirut, the idf just had a retaliatory strike. where you are, what are you hearing ben? >> well, this news is just spreading around and it's fairly early in the morning here in beirut. haven't seen that reaction yet, but it certainly isn't going to help calm things in the region i'm, sure that there are many people have are probably going to come to the conclusion that israel has decided that there's no hope in negotiations to release the hostages in gaza. and so it's going after the negotiators it's mine, honey, who would be political leader of hamas, that the military leader of hamas was heavily engaged in these negotiations, obviously not directly with the american. or d israelis, but

through the facilities and the egyptians and others he was the man passing who was sort of stating hamas is position. so it seems that israel simply given up on those negotiations and his going ahead and eliminating the leaders of hamas when movie opportunity arrived. and i think as other people who you've been speaking to this morning or evening where you are, have made it clear that this really underscores that israel has the ability and the intelligence to target its enemies wherever they might be. for instance yesterday evening at just before 8:00 p.m. local time here in beirut. the israelis had intelligence to locate and phil for our schuker who's the one of the senior military

commanders of hezbollah a, despite the fact that hezbollah tries to maintain fairly tight security and for the israelis to be able to strike this political head of hamas in the iranian capital and was person you heard. but i have read saying earlier that it was as a result of the missiles fired through a window. obviously, wasn't asked to get that confirmed. but that would indicate a level of intelligence that perhaps we haven't seen yet before. and as i said, it just sends a message that israel has given up on the negotiation for a ceasefire in gaza for these peaceful release of the hostages who are still alive in gaza and is simply going forward with assassinating the people. it was indirectly negotiating with i want to bring in cnn military analyst,

colonel cedric leighton on this kernel. this is very significant news this evening, this region has been under major stress obviously since at least october 7. >> what will this do to the political and military dynamic given some of the statements that this might be a showing of a giving up on peaceful negotiations yeah, laura, that could very well be the case, at least in the near term because when you go ahead and spend was talking about just now eliminating the lead negotiator for hamas in these negotiations that they've been in conducting in qatar and egypt, as well as in rome. that really puts a stop to any of those diplomatic efforts. and i agree with ben that this could potentially be a really way to stop every single aspect of these negotiations. at least in the short term. >> because what that does is it

puts hamas in a specific box right here. and now that they're, or less leaderless on the political side, at least it also puts a lot of pressure on the military wing of hamas. >> what we can see is some kind of effort to consolidate power within hamas that is going to of course, be a very difficult thing for them to do because they are really forced. >> now under a lot of stress to deal with the israelis both in a military and a political way with decimated leadership. and in terms of the future, laura, what we could see here is the potential for greater attacks on israel. some of them coming from iran, from the iranian revolutionary guard corps, because now iranian sovereignty has been violated with the killing of haniah in tehran. as so this could really result halt in a major escalation of

this conflict to not only between hamas and israel, but also between iran and israel. >> indeed, this happened in iran in the capital city while he was attending the inauguration of the new president in iran, what kind of retaliation, if any, do you expect from iran given as some are describing this as a slap in the face, knowing that people like kanye had oftentimes has been out in a about in public and had a certain level of comfort in safe travels and places like iran yeah that's going to be i think a major effort by the iranians will need, they will need to show up show of force and what that means is it could be a missile attack like we saw a few months ago, i against israel, that could very well try to they could very well try to tax the air defense systems for the israelis have. on the one hand, on the other hand, what they could view is they

could also mount some kind of terrorist attacks against israeli installations are not only around the region, around the middle rep. >> potentially globally. so those are the kinds of things that could happen and the third dimension that they could use from iran would be cyber attacks against israel and any country that they feel is associated with israel. and that of course would mean the united states? >> or getting a quick break on this very important and quick pace news story that is breaking this evening. hear more on this break king's story in just a moment on cnn i shall not seek, and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president, 1960 years, sunday at nine on cnn the day you get your clear choice, dental implants changes your struggle with missing teeth forever it

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>> calls a terror group, has been killed in tehran. let's get to jeremy diamond and haifa, israel. jeremy, what do you know well, there is not a ton of information coming from the israeli military or the israeli government at this stage so far the only response we've gotten is that they do not respond to reports in the foreign media. >> and this is the very type of targeted assassination attempt. they were targeted assassination abroad that the israeli military, the israeli government, the mossad, israel's intelligence service typically would not comment on, but we are learning of course from other sources that this was israel that was behind this assassination of a smile honea in iran which is an extraordinary feat at that in terms of israel's ability to gather the intelligence and then be able to take out a smile haniah, in ranin on iranian soil is really

something quite remarkable that speaks to the reach of israel's intelligence service and is going to raise major questions in iran about the security 30 of other leaders in iran, whether iranian leaders were the leaders of other iranian proxies. now, hamas, for its part, has said that the confirms a honey as death and said it is either victory or martyrdom. but this is going to raise 1 million questions at this moment. a very tense moment in the middle east, as we know last night, israel carried out a separate strike that killed a senior hezbollah commander. we know that these ceasefire negotiations are still ongoing. we are at a moment of inquiry credible tension, where a wider regional war could potentially break out as a result of these various escalations that we're seeing, it should come as no surprise, however, that israel has tried to take out smile haniah. and in this case, apparently done so successfully, israeli leaders have vowed since october 7 that they would

target and take out any hamas leader since the beginning of this war. and they would reach them wherever they could and now the latest target of an israeli operation, apparently, was this ismail haniah hamas's political leader. and this is also of course going to raise questions about leadership within hamas. we know of force that there has been yahya sinwar who is hamas leader inside of gaza, directing many of hamas's military operations there, but also having a critical hand in those ongoing diplomatic efforts. ismail haniah also had a major hand in those ongoing ceasefire negotiations, particularly given the fact that he was abroad and hamas political leader and so now this is going to raise questions about who comes out on top with it's more influence in hamas and particularly more influence over these ongoing ceasefire negotiations diamond stay with us plays. >> i want to get to jonathan conricus, former for idf spokesperson jonathan hamas,

blames israel for this israel is not commenting, walk us through how the idf might be processing all of this right now well i, think that good goodnight to you. >> a very good night. >> i would say the first good night in quite a long time for the free world and for israel i think that's what the idf is doing now is assessing the situation, preparing itself for a response from iran hezbollah, an attempted response from hamas, while i don't know, really how much military capabilities hamas has left in order to respond. but probably there will be some kind of iranian hizballah join it effort here that i think that the idf is ready for that. and i think that the idf is quiet just as jeremy said before, in order to assess the situation and see how this is unfolding and to listen to hamas and uranium messaging we've heard

from some people tonight that suggests that this might be an indication that israel has given up on negotiating, or at least a peaceful release of hostages. >> and that the targeting of those like han, who is chief interlocutory of negotiations might signal a change of events what do you make of those suggestions well, i can see the logic behind it, but i don't think that is the case. >> i would rather assume that an opportunity availed itself for israel to take out one of the most important leaders of that us designated terror organization, hamas. and to do it in iran, if that indeed is the case, then that's an added bonus of adding insult to injury to the iranians when it comes to doing it on home soil, i think that the last meeting that is my haniah did was with the supreme leader into head on at least according to the

supreme leader, his twitter account, there's a photo of ismail haniyeh sitting with him. and he also participated in the inauguration ceremony of the new uranium president, alongside other iranian affiliate, the terrorist. so i think that what we're seeing here is an important message. i understand that this may complicate the situation. probably in the immediate term when it comes to getting israeli hostages out. and i for one, pray and hope that israel will be able to get all of our hostages as many of them as possible alive. but israeli leaders said, both military and elected officials, they said this, i think nine or ten months ago. >> all of the leaders of hamas are dead man walking and it's only a matter of time before they will face the consequences of their murderous attack. >> let's against israelis on october the seventh. and since standby, i want to come back to you on these points.

>> i want to bring back in colonel cedric leighton as well how do you expect hamas to react to this? >> yeah, that's a great question, laura, i think hamas is going to be in a situation where his jonathan was alluding to. you're going to have to make some kind of a response if you're hamas, however, your military capabilities are definitely going to be limited at this point, hamas is basically a top-down organization. that requires a certain berkman to be in charge of things and that's going to i think be a bit more difficult for them to exercise the command and control that they normally exercise in a situation where they're trying to go after israeli assets they may try to launch rockets if they still have the capability to do that from gaza, they may try to do some other things in a more localized fashion, but they're also going to be under a lot of pressure to basically reach some kind of an agreement and that pressure is basically

military and political pressure that is going to i think complicate some of the efforts that hamas has they will try to work together with hezbollah and iran to perhaps do some kind of a joint effort against israel. but that is going to be something that a going to challenge their capabilities. if they do anything that might be something more in the shadows as opposed to more spectacular attack. but we can't rule about the possibility of a spectacular effort to spectacular type of attack on israeli soil at this point, colonel leighton, let's talk about the intelligence that must have been gathered in order to perform and carry out this assassination. >> what do you make of the fact this happened? any iran, in the capital city during the attendance of the inauguration of the new president. and it appears to be in a wreck residents as well yeah. it really knew what they were doing when it came to this kind

of attack. >> laura what the israelis did was they gathered some very detailed intelligence on the activities of haniah and his entourage because his bodyguard was all also killed in this attack, according to a reports as so what they knew was the movements they knew the location, that they knew what kinds of things he would be doing. >> and they knew the timing of everything, so they had an idea to a schedule iv, use that information to basically i go after him. and if we have a bit of an idea of what happened where he in essence assassinated in his residence. they are adapted, shows a very detailed, basically hit job that was done with great precision. they basically knew exactly which way the door knobs turned and they also tour had a very good layout of the place that haniah was staying at so they had those plans.

they knew those kinds of things, and they also apparently were able to get away idly so far. so that also shows that there is a weakness within iranian security that allows for these kinds of things to happen. it's a big embarrassment to the iranians and it also will basically force them to upgrade their security. it will also politically force them to take a tougher stance against israel at this particular juncture and that is basically casting a shadow over the new uranium president as he assumes his position on that point. >> what does it say about that weakness that iran was unable to actually protect someone in this circumstance. i want to bring in cnn international well, maddock editor nic robertson, who joins me again. this is very striking. this news, highly consequential. everyone is leaned in to see what this could mean. two, only

the hospital there's negotiations, but stability in the region and possible retaliatory strikes tell us what this means for the politics and the posturing in this region genetic and i think when we try to just pick up on what cedric leighton was speaking about that the intelligence failures there, that there will be an opportunity tonight's issa sort of cross-reference potential mistakes and errors and miscalculations from beirut, from the targeting of the hezbollah commander in beirut and from the the targeting of ismail haniyeh, successful targeting open in tehran you know, it's particularly striking that, you know, the little store across the street from where the hezbollah commander in beirut was tilled there were cctv footage of the building being hit, not uncommon, but of course, in an intelligence capacity, if you are hezbollah right now and you're also looking in tehran about how israel could have had any idea

when, when ismail haniyeh was going inside that building, this is typically in the past, these types of assassination have had the help of people on the ground that puts them in a vulnerable place in jeopardy all sorts of things become difficult. >> but if you start talking about electronic eavesdropping and tapping into what seemed to be very normal domestic cctv camera operations stare protect premises except, et cetera, you know, the sorts of things will also milley within our homes now this is an avenue that will undoubtedly be explored, but i think to your broader point here, what does this do politically in the region right now, this is going to be an extreme test of the new president of iran, masoud pezeshkian. >> this is a man who's quite literally just taken up his job, who has quite literally just seen one of one of his principal regional

interlocutors who came to congratulate you can witness them taking on that new role, being being assassinated and killed his seen as a moderate at that a relative term. >> and of course he's constrained by other forces in iran, right? the irgc, the supreme leader. all of these individuals and bodies will have an impact on the decisions that he made but will he now be seen as somebody who acts with moderation are really find themselves taking, taking a very, very tough line. >> and i think as well if you look at the implications of ismail haniyeh's assassination he was seen as a more moderate within hamas. >> that moderate voice is off the table. >> does it make a difference? he will be replaced. will he be replaced by somebody more hardline? we don't know. >> but hamas has always said that these figures can be

killed. >> it doesn't matter and he will absolutely get adulation as a martyr so the cause that's how hamas would play it up in short-term when we talk about opportunity as well, i think we can't overlook prime minister netanyahu's position an opportunity to have a high profile assassination in tehran like that these opportunities aren't just intelligence opportunities, but they're sort of political, diplomatic opportunities. and that arose in part because of what he, because there is prime minister netanyahu's successful in his own terms, speech to congress in the united states, that threat to united states in his terms, was a successful one and it came as well at a time when there was the killing of the druze children in israel from a hezbollah strike the retaliatory window that opened up has led to these two high

profile killings. >> that also is part of the opportunity and picture. >> so the assessment from that is netanyahu right now feels quite strong, feels quite emboldened. so he is showing himself as strong it is emboldened. is the new iranian precedent going to come out as a more moderate and temper his reaction, or will he take a more extreme reaction and for her? hamas, they will name someone else describe haniah as a martyr and continue in the same vein this has quickly developing. >> nick, thank you so much. please stay with us. we're not even really a week since the address netanyahu to congress and meetings with president biden and former president trump as well that just took place on what, july 25th, we're going to go quick break right now more on this breaking story just a moment moments that

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that connected to the rising tensions? >> between hezbollah and israel and what do i see the attack, but recent attacks connected to well, i think i think it's all connected, but i think quite frankly, i don't i don't see a return to where we were several several months ago. >> not yet. and, certainly we'll keep our eye on this the safety and protection of our troops is it's really, really important to me. that's why you saw us take some measures to protect ourselves here most recently as we took out some uavs which are about to be launched now the right to do that and we will continue to do that in order to protect our troops thanks yesterday in manila, you were asked about israel it's quite 1 million average. >> the police said we would like to see things result and

we've been hearing from secretary lloyd austin before the press and a gaggle responding to the news of the assassination of haniah, a political leader in hamas, he said that he has no additional information aside from what has already been reported and that ways the asked about whether it was a connection between the recent attacks and the security of us military. he said it's all connected, but there was no return to where we have been in the past. he believes, let's now bring in dan raviv former cbs news foreign correspondent, and which goldberg, a former national security council official this is extraordinary evening of breaking news. rich what is your reaction, right now to the news of this assassination? and the secretary lloyd austin did not information about whether they had advanced notice or any additional information as to who is behind it? >> well, first of all obviously for the victims of october 7, for the families of those victims, for the families of american victims of october 7.

and for so many crimes that hamas has committed over many years this is a big deal, is a big night for the 241 families who lost loved ones in the marine barracks bombing back in 1983. this is a big night and so i think we should reflect on the fact that two very bad men in the world behind to designated foreign terrorist organizations are not on the earth. and that's a good thing. the number one thing to think about now is from iran's perspective, the access that they have created, which starts in tehran but goes through beirut and then goes around the middle east to iraq and syria gaza, the west bank, yemen has been penetrated by the israeli air force tonight in a way that tehran can't deal with, can't respond to their air defenses, can not respond, cannot defend against the israeli air force. 32 main capitals to this iran-led axis in the middle east tehran and beirut and tonight we saw the israeli air

force with impunity go into both with precision intelligence and take out the highest levels of both hezbollah and hamas. remember three months ago in the retaliation for the iranian missile attack against israel. we saw israel launched what we believe to be a missile from a standoff weapon system, perhaps the f35 against a radar very close to an iranian nuclear sites if you can take out a nuclear sites radar from far away with an aircraft, you can take out a house, you can take out a person. you can take a lot of things, whether it's an iran or in lebanon and syria, iraq, yemen, or obviously the west bank or gaza. so i think the message tonight is a strong i'm one to the iranian regime. >> the head of this octopus of terror with all its tentacles that have been waging war for nine plus months and now it's iran, as we've seen in the

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