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ismail haniyeh the group says he was killed in tech ronna after meeting with iran's newly elected president. you see here and attending his inauguration here on state media says an airborne guided projectile was used to strike where hania was staying in the iranian capital. hamas was quick to blame israel calling it a quote zionist strike. there has been no official confirmation from israel. one saying that it doesn't respond to reports from foreign media well anya was a longtime member of hamas joining in the late 1980s and rising through the ranks over the years before >> act, which will not pass in vain. >> and palestinian authority

president mike would have bass calls hernias killing a quote dangerous development was for any us response, the white house says, it's aware of the reports, but it has so far not commented. well, these reports come after israel claim just hours earlier that it had killed hezbollah as most senior commander in a drone strike in beirut, israel says it was retaliation for saturdays, deadly rocket attack in the occupied golan heights. hezbollah denies being involved in that attack the rdf blamed for the sugar for that attack, which killed 12 children. and in june, more than 40 people, as i say, hezbollah denies it was responsible and has yet to confirm the commanders death. but that militant group now acknowledges sugar was present at the time of the strike in

beirut the lebanese health ministry says, a woman and two children were killed in the strike with 74 others injured lebanon's caretaker prime minister condemned the attack, calling it a clear violation of international law. 24 hours to assassinations, it seems in the middle east militant environment joining me now here in london is chief international security correspondent, nick peyton. most, let's so during tech ron and the death of the hamas political leader is smell honey, what do we know about the strike limited, absolutely limited at this time or 2:00 in the morning and explosion heard in northern iran appears to have hit. is mohenjo clearly here staying in what they referred to as a special guest house for veterans, on clear under whose protection he necessarily was, you would

imagine somebody clearly on israel's wanted list. there would hope to have the full protection of the iranian state quite unclear the extent of the damage done to the building where he was a airborne guided projectile is the phrase being used by iranian state media that could be anything and i couldn't be a bullet frankly, it could be a drone piloted from nearby, could be a drone piloted from far away in israel, we simply don't know those key details here. a bodyguard also killed. so this, it clearly is precision here. there's clear intelligence is to exactly where he was. we're not at this point hearing about extensive casualties and damage to the surrounding areas. so the, possibility that this was indeed targeted all those details come together now to help iran form its narrative about what happened here was this, its airspace violated? was this an egregious assault on the protection guarantees are the revolutionary guard corps. do they essentially feel this was an insult against them because he was there protected by them please don't know. and that will add to the pressure on tehran here to formulate a

response. now they have in the past seen top nuclear scientists on the outskirts of two ron. it seems killed by israeli proxies or assassins there and not taken too the master, so to speak, in their response. so they have a variety of options but certainly the two killings we went to bear thinking maybe this has phonation in beirut could tip the region over the edge. now they've gone a full level further and a big question here, i think frankly about quite how potent these us calls for calm and de-escalation have indeed been a move but this follows one like that. >> nic, as you rightly point out, you know, it will clearly be some time and perhaps before we see what the iranian narrative is here, after all, a strike within iran extensibly, expectations are that this was by israel though israel has said it just doesn't respond to foreign media reports, which very common line for him yeah. the israeli narrative which

doesn't exist at present, we've just suggested we will wait for this is though an attack, a strike and assassination being applauded and celebrated in israel certainly looking at his word been absolutely clear that someone like kenya is on their target list. and so his decision to travel to somewhere like to run for an organization of masoud pezeshkian, the comparatively moderate new iranian president, inaugurated just yesterday he must have felt he had the security guarantees. he needed. he must have felt that the idea of being hit into ron was just snack far too brazen for israel, what a phenomenal miscalculation that appears to have been by him and iranian officials to, but it's a sign i think that israel is on the front foot has extraordinary capabilities and precise information there. and it's also a test for pezeshkian as well, because here he is confronting and extraordinary challenge to the integrity t at the sovereignty of iran, its ability to offer traveling guests basic security

guarantees for something as integral, as an inauguration ceremony. that's going to be a huge embarrassment the way they phrased this though, is utterly going to dictate the next 24, 48 hours. becky, the important thing here really in the real-world outside of the rhetoric and the fury is what options does iran indeed have? and they tried a 300 strong missile and drone strike after senior irgc commanders were killed in damascus in april, that didn't get through 99% were intercepted by israel and their allies and they do have the potential card of hezbollah in the northern border area there's to israel in lebanon. but they haven't wanted to play that over multiple months. and it's clear that just happened to run. that's something they're reserving for, maybe a different time. and so we have to see quite what they're able to do, that they pause and choose a different time in a more asymmetric fashion to respond and it's important to note that there has been no response from washington, which has simply said this is the biden administration and simply

said it has seen reports of the strike that killed the hamas political leader ismail hania. but the u.s. does insist and we've heard lloyd austin, the defense minister, say this overnight. it insists it's still has an has israel's back and of course, had israel's back in response to the april retaliation by iran that you've just been you've just been voting on are you surprised to date and we are only hours into this that we've seen nothing more from washington. >> i'm in austin did say traveling in asia that he still felt war was not inevitable and that's their key position here. i think that's true to some degree, it is not an obvious escalation here where we're over a waterfall, over the edge nothing more other than necessarily chaos below, but it's a assign possibly of how far if we believe the notion that israel couldn't have carried out something like this without some sense of us acquiescence for knowledge,

intelligence, who knows that maybe the u.s. happy to let israel push the limit, and it's also potentially a sign them publicly, at least their calls for de-escalation, for calm, for a general sense of trying to step back from the brink, have in the last 24 hours by the second strike, not been ignore the strike on southern beirut so deep into hezbollah's heartlands. certainly a message from israel that it was willing and to go and extra days further, but calculated relatively restrained, horrific civilian side injuries in that event, but not in itself, going to push hezbollah to feel it has to launch a hundreds of rockets back at israel. this extra element but at the same time too, not an iranian killed in iran, somebody clearly on israel's target list, a very technically accomplished operation. it seems from the limited amount of information that we know precise with phenomenally accurate intelligence. and so again, a complete wildcard here, but not

necessarily one that mandates a fourth broccoli, iranian and hezbollah response back towards israel in the coming hours. >> but certainly their concern around the region we've heard that from the turkish foreign minister, not directly pointing the finger of blame at israel, but suggesting that benjamin netanyahu does not want peace in the region and worrying about further regional escalation of what is ultimately the gaza conflict at this point we are hearing that from various interlocutors around the region good to have you. thank you very much. indeed, sneak paton walsh in the house for you joining us now is furious. maksad, senior fellow and senior director for strategic outreach at the middle east it's to institute new just in the past, what, 12 or so hours had suggested that the assassination of the key hezbollah leader if that is in case in fact, what happened, hezbollah not admitting to the

death of food, soccer yet, but usage jess said that his death in beirut was just the opening salvo in what may happen next with regard, israel lebanon fear us. we now are reporting within the same 20 for our window. the it seems assassination of the hamas political leader in tel ron. what do you make of where we are at at this point? >> becky. good to be with you again. at this point, all bets are off there was a dynamic prior to the assassination that we woke up to this morning of hamas leader ismail haniyeh. there was a dynamic that in a hopeful scenario would have seen iran plays a restraining role on hezbollah and its other assets in the region to

de-escalate. and that this through back-channel diplomacy between washington and teheran would be contained by itself. the assassination of what is essentially hezbollah's top military commanders, blood sugar who predates, even hassan nasrallah the political head of hezbollah, in terms of being one of the founding members, the founding generation of hezbollah. but that could be contained today with the assassination of ismail haniyeh in the heart of the head-on in what appears to be an airstrikes of sort, either through a drone or a jet outside of iranian airspace that totally changes the dynamic. and iran itself now feels the need to respond, possibly directly or i would think that there's a great possibility that this will see an orchestrated region-wide campaign that britain the various iranian militias from iraq, from yemen, from lebanon, and maybe even the head on itself in a direct response on

israel. so this is, this is unprecedented and it's very difficult to say that given what we've seen in the past ten months of conflict but i feel like we're actually a notch closer to a region wide conflict today than we've ever been i wonder to pursue your line here, whether we could expect not just a direct response from iran and we'll have to wait to see what that looks like on israel. >> but perhaps it's through its proxies. and in direct response, not just on israel, but on others around the region deemed to be sort of loosely term allies of israel yes. >> i mean, that's one of the big questions out there have these has been assassinations been greenlighted and shared with the united states or did israel act without the fore knowledge of the biden administration? and i asked that question because clearly the u.s. is going to be an

active participant in whatever comes next, as it was back in april when israel flattened the iranian consulate in damascus, and that necessitated no direct iranian response in which us defenses where it played an essential already there early reports that us warships are moving closer to the eastern mediterranean, to the lebanese coast in anticipation of what might come next. so this is a situation where these decisions are not only having an impact on israel itself, but also us national security interests certainly the u.s. has several vulnerabilities in the region, including its bases in iraq and syria a regional escalation is not inevitable. >> those the words of lloyd austin, the defense minister today, speaking over the past 24 hours in in asia where he is traveling, washington not responding specifically to the

death of the hamas leader ismail haniyeh, but those, the words in the past window as it were from lloyd austin and a number of people i've spoken to this morning reading into that to a degree, the u.s is banking on the same sort of moment here as we had back in april when the responses from both israel and iran were out there, but they were contained. not least because the u.s. was involved in everything that was going on i just wonder whether those who are taking some comfort in lloyd austin's words this morning are a step ahead of themselves at this point, what do you what do you think? >> i think the secretary's words were very carefully chosen and very delicately crafted. he did not say that a region-wide escalation or war is unlikely is that it's not inevitable and to my mind here,

reading between the lines, it's what's left unsaid is that a region-wide escalation is likely, i would say very likely, perhaps an all out war might not be inevitable. there might still be a chance of avoiding that. but in all likelihood, we're looking at several dark days ahead in which the region will be at the precipice of an all-out war probably an escalation like we haven't seen in the past ten months. but let me say this. >> becky, i think what israel has demonstrated in the past 24 hours is an extra ordinary capability in terms of intelligence through the ranks of hezbollah, to be able to penetrate and also the iranian regime size, kind of actionable intelligence that's timely, that's needed to assassinate such senior figures. >> that is a huge success, no doubt, or benjamin netanyahu. however, these are tactical victories. we all know that these assassinations of senior

leaders have taken place before and these people are replaceable strategic here iran and its allies through continuing to build their capability, is hundreds of thousands of precision guided missiles with hezbollah. the iranian regime being closer than ever. according to secretary blinken, perhaps even a week away from becoming a full-fledged nuclear state. those are a major strategic victory is and progress that both sides are israel's adversaries, have been making. so this is a moment for a temporary success, rate as it is for israel. but in the longer term, i wonder what the strategic thinking is in jerusalem. >> fascinating to have you ferrous, who is in istanbul this morning, fears maksad as we've been reporting the turkish foreign minister concerned that we've been reporting on the assassination of ismail haniyeh and the potential for a response at

this point from iran could ratchet things up in this region to breaking point. i'm not pointing the finger of blame directly at israel, but suggesting this is the foreign ministry from turkey this morning suggesting that benjamin netanyahu is not looking for peace in this region for us good to have you. thank you. in a moment more on our breaking news, the assassination of a top hamas leader stay with cnn a heart attack. >> do they have life insurance know but we have life insurance john i'm trying to find something we can afford fortunately, it only a few minutes. select pope found john a $500,000 policy for only $29 a month, and his wife and a $500,000 policy for only $21 a month go to select quote.com now and get the insurance your family meets at a price you can afford. select quote, we shop, you save meet the jennifer's

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he was named especially designated global terrorist by the united states. let's get you to haifa, israel, and to cnn's jeremy diamond. no official response as i understand it, as of yet, from israel, but news that is being applauded, they celebrated in israel jeremy no question about it for months now, becky, is really leaders have made clear that they would take out all of hamas's leaders who they viewed as responsible for the horrors of october 7, and that of course includes hamas's political leader is smile haniah. >> and now they have shown when that they have not only made good on that, but showing that they could even carry out that assassination on iranian soil in the iranian capital, which is an extraordinary feat at that one that is going to raise significant questions in tehran about how israeli intelligence is really operations were able to actually pull this off. but

but what is perhaps most important at this hour, becky, is the impact that this is going to have on this region when we went to bed last night, we were already dealing with a region that was teetering on the edge of a potential of wider escalation of this conflict with the israeli airstrike that is really officials they killed floods, shakur, a senior hezbollah commander at pfizer, to the hezbollah chief hassan nasrallah, and then waking up this morning, we learned of this assassination in tehran of hamas's political leader, both hezbollah and hamas are of course viewed as key iranian proxies in the region. and in addition to the fact that they are proxies, the fact that this is asked the nation took place on iranian soil is going to raise the stakes considerably. and so all eyes are now on iran and on iranian proxies in the region to see how exactly they will respond a two, this a

targeted assassination that appears to have been carried out. all indications are that this was indeed carried out by israel. but of course beyond the regional tensions, there is also the impact that this may have on those ongoing hostage and ceasefire negotiations. it's ismail haniah was affected simply home-based in doha, qatar, and qatar, of course, was a key mediator and haniah was viewed as one of the key interlocutors in these negotiations. and so we're just now getting a statement from the ministry of foreign affairs in qatar calling this a heinous crime and a dangerous escalation, warning effectively of the possibility a further regional escalation because of what they call reckless israeli behavior so there's no doubt that this will, at least in the short term, effectively forestall the possibility of any progress in those negotiations. we will have to see what the effect will be in the medium and the long term but there's no question that this does having tremendous

implications on those negotiations and also on a region that is already very much on the edge, becky. >> yeah, absolutely. >> jeremy diamond is in haifa in israel. let me bring in at thank you, jeremy, let me bring an ha hellyer, who is today in malaysia. he's middle east studies scholar at the carnegie endowment for international peace. and i was reading some of what you've been posting on x formerly twitter this morning. and i thought you made a very good point in this in this talk of the potential for further escalation around the region which is important. you've also made the point that we need to be very mindful about the unintended consequences of what we have seen, both interferon overnight and the attack, the strike on. the hezbollah leader in beirut yesterday. just explain what you mean by that. ha so becky,

thank you very much. always a pleasure to be on your program here's the issue when we talk about controlled escalation, are calculated escalation. i think we're really fooling ourselves. there's no such that when you engage in conflict and you use technology especially on places that are quite far away from where you are, then you have no way to predict precisely what's going to happen in fact, this is one scenario for what happened last week and mitch, the champ's in the syrian occupied golan heights one intelligence report came out saying that actually the attack was by quote-unquote mistake and i said by mistake and quotation marks because once scenario here is that his butler were aiming for something else in the goal, hannah, i'll go line heights and unfortunately it's something that they didn't intend to. but as a result children died and then you said

in the cycle of escalation by the same token, the israelis may feel that they are doing quota, got a calculated escalation by targeting this or that and we're assuming that they will remain time targeted, arcuated because of course, when it comes to gaza, there's been very little in terms of targeting and calculation. it's been tens of thousands of people dead and an incredible amount of quote, unquote, permissible collateral damage, right radians, when they respond as they inevitably it simply will to this assassination of honey into her heran. they will probably want to avoid a regional conflict that will plunge them and everybody else into a devastating war. so they will quote to go calculate about how they're going to do it. but maybe you can tell where it's going to go. you don't know what is going? what happened as a result, you can't predict all of the variables and control all the factors nothing

from washington on this deadly strike into iran, which killed the hamas political leader ismail haniyeh to save for a statement that they have seen the news at one of these sort of holding statements as it were monitoring the situation. >> we have heard from lloyd austin overnight who is in asia who has said he doesn't see a regional escalation as inevitable at this point. again, read into that what you may, but this idea of sort of calculated strategy calculated responses that you bring up here, which i think is really interesting, is one perhaps that our viewers might think sort of suits the united states at the set of course the ratcheting up of et response in counter-response back in april between israel and iran very much it seems managed in the background by the united states. we know it has assets

in region in the mediterranean of course, and in the air. if needs be. but washington is not going to want to get get involved at this stage with 98 days to go until until an election in a, in a wider regional conflict. but it needs to be very careful about what it's doing here and may indications are the permissions in inverted commas that it's giving to israel at this point, does it not? >> it really does. and i think, you know what you mentioned all right. now is very much on point. the issue here is that escalation will happen by, unfortunately, defaults unless de-escalation is actively sought. because that's the direction, right? when you have daily the bombing and bombardment of gaza with tens of thousands of mostly civilians dying, then you know, escalation is the deep block position we want to have a

de-escalation paradigm take over here and that can only happen as a result of an active effort. as far unfortunately not enough energy has been put into that. the united states has not been willing to use the leverage that actually has on israel vis-a-vis the united nations, but also vis-a-vis arms transfers and support. in order to force israel to a serious negotiation position. on the contrary, what we've seen, and this has been for multiple times now by even israeli press itself. we've seen that benjamin netanyahu has sabotaged ceasefire negotiations multiple times over the past ten months. this isn't sustainable. we need to find a way to de-escalate. otherwise, the inevitable consequences going to be escalation and the plunging of the region into a spiral of

devastating conflict that i think would be absolutely catastrophic for everybody nobody wants that. >> in region at all. not least, those in the goal who will tell you that they are navigating a new middle eastern rather than looking backwards towards what many around the world have seen as a conflict ridden region. they look forward to what is a new middle east with ds collation, economic integration, and the rest of it that is, it seems a bit of a pipe dream at the moment as we sit today, at least with this risk of a further escalation staring us in the face, ha is good to have you hit haley in the house back in a moment with more breaking news? on the assassination of a top hamas leader statement. >> this is the home for the world's most essential stories in journalism and now cnn has

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hancocks in abu dhabi, joining us. now we know this strike on a residents occupied where ismail haniyeh was saying happened around 2:00 in the morning. >> what else do we know at this point well, becky, as you say, 2:00 a.m. is when the strike took place. >> we understand from state run agency irna that it was a quote airborne guided projectile. now, that doesn't narrow it down too much at this point, but we know from state media that an investigation is underway at this point to find out more details of what exactly happened and also, we understand the position from which the projectile was fired. this investigation, we understand from a statement from the iranian revolutionary guard corps. so clearly they want to find out exactly what happened, how this could have

happened, because it is a very embarrassing security lapse. to allow this to have happened. we know that is male hania was in tehran for the inauguration of the new iranian president. it was a state event. and certainly they would have been an expectation of protection within tehran itself. now we know that is male hania was marked man. israel had made that very clear on a number of occasions saying that everybody who was involved in the october 7 attacks by hamas on israel was a target, saying that they were going to go after the leadership and certainly we have seen that happen over recent months. now izmail, hania himself is, was a very significant person within the hamas group. he did join the group back in the 80s for the first intifada, but it was

really the late 90s when it became clear that he was going to be a key political leader, he became the personal assistant, if you like, to the founder of hamas, the spiritual leader shakier scene. and he actually survived a previous assassination attempt while with shake yassine by israel, back in 2003, both were injured. shake you're seeing killed just months later, but he was a key person within this group. and of course, a key interlocutor as well when it comes to the possible hostage ceasefire deal, that is was trying and to be hammered out at this point to release israeli hostages for palestinian prisoners, and a ceasefire that's clearly from the packed the hamas statements that we are hearing at this point, very fiery statements will be on hold at best. becky well, hancocks is in abu dhabi. thank you. honey is the second

leader of an iran backed militant group reported to have been assassinated on tuesday, just hours earlier, israel said it had killed hezbollah's most senior military commander in a drone strike in beirut. the idf claims for sugar was responsible for the attack that left a dozen children dead in the golan heights on saturday. hezbollah acknowledges he was in the building at the time of the strike, but the group has yet to confirm his death. lebanese health ministry says a woman and two kids were killed. well, joining me now, cnn's ben wedeman in beirut, and i just wanted to get slightly recounts the way i described what has gone on in the last 24 hours. certainly hezbollah, iran, back hamas more sort of co-opted as it were by iran co-opting the sort of gaza

conflict in and of itself. but ben, what do you make of the news of the death of the hamas leader in teheran overnight local time. and what we have seen now come to pass in the past 24 hours well the attack is really assassination is something of a surprise given that in rome on sunday the united states, qatar, israel, egypt, and others were there to negotiate some sort ceasefire agreement, the release of the hostages. and then on wednesday, israel kills the senior hamas leader who is involved in directly in those negotiations so it really sends the message that israel has, in a sense, given up on the negotiations maybe you could even say has given up on those

hostages and it's just trying to eliminate the leadership of hamas, whether they're making progress in those negotiations or not. so on that side, it certainly does raise the level of tension two unprecedented levels. note the assassination last night are this strike last night on beirut, that we believe led to the killer scene of sugar certainly raises the temperature here as well. and we don't know whether i should put it was actually killed hamas the hezbollah put out a rather strange statement after many hours that came out this morning, essentially saying his civil defense workers are clear during the way the rubble at the site of the strike in beirut and as they progress, perhaps the fate of odd shoe could it will be come clear, i think at this point it's obvious he is dead now. i think

i was listened to my friend ha hell, you're speaking to you before the break and i think certainly what he said is correct, underscoring that the united states has played a fairly weak and passive role in trying to bring this conflict. now, almost empty ending its tenth month that the united states simply has not exerted the kind of influence and leverage that it has to bring this conflict to an end. it's gone on to the point where it started focus don gaza, and now we are on the brink of potentially a regional war. and the united states simply, at this point, appears to be sitting on from the sidelines, sitting on its hands. >> becky it's good to have you, ben. >> thank you very much. indeed, ben wedeman is in beirut. we are everywhere. you need to be as we continue to report on

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consequences at this point? >> incredibly dangerous moment in the region, yet again, of course, just in the last 24 hours, as you have been discussing it's just been an incredibly dangerous, and tense moment in the region. we're going to have to wait and see what sort of reaction we're going to be getting from the iranians, if any at all. but we're starting to get various groups and governments reacting to this very slowly this morning. but you have hamas officials describing this as a cowardly act that will not pass in vain. >> but realistically, of course, becky, we know the state that hamas has in the situation in gaza and the the ongoing war. >> there really not in a position realistically to respond or retaliate to this, but of course, you would expect such a statement from them and you also have palestinian officials, including the palestinian president mahmoud abbas and others coming out condemning the assassination of

ismail haniyeh and praising him. the russians the russian deputy foreign minister, saying that this was absolutely unacceptable political assassination that's sweaters further escalation in the region, something we are hearing from other governments as well to major regional players. of course reacting in the past hour or so, turkey and qatar both turkey he describing this as quote, a despicable act that aims to escalate the war in gaza to a regional level. and this is, of course, has been the fear of so many that any, this region has felt that it has been on edge, that it is one incident away from major. >> and you make a very good point in a week. and we are only midway through this week in a week that we hope we made, we might get further momentum on ceasefire and hostage talks. those talks, of course, we're supposed to be happening in rome this week ceasefire talks,

at least in principle, a temporary ceasefire in gaza in the first instance that one assumes, we would have to assume is now sort of off at this point if israel was behind this assassination and they haven't admitted to this, they haven't claimed responsibility for the assassination of the hamas political leader. this is a man who is deeply involved in those ceasefire and hostage talks. many and i speak to a lot of sources on those tools will tell you that this was the guy pushing for a deal and a compromise. that's off the table at this point. >> it would seem so right back, caitlin, i mean you have again, we're seeing this coming in from reactions from these countries including other, of course, that has been a key player in these talks and what they had said that this is pushing the region away from

achieving peace you have the turkish foreign ministry while they haven't come out and accused israel of being behind this assassination, would they have said that prime minister benjamin netanyahu has no intention of achieving peace jomana karadsheh is on the story for you. always good to have you here with me in the studio. jomana, thank you more to come on. our breaking news, the assassination of hamas political leader ismail haniyeh after this short break, stay with us when you're the leader is disaster clean up, and restoration. how do you make like it never even happened happened brandi whatever comes your way. >> there's a pro for that serve pro never even happened

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