your will at trust and will.com and make it count this is cnn breaking news hello, welcome to our viewers joining us in the u.s and around the world. i'm max foster, i'm becky anderson. it is wednesday, july by the 31st, 9:00 a.m. here in london. and we are following breaking news and reaction across the middle east and beyond to the apparent

assassination of the political leader of hamas, ismail haniyeh the group says he was killed in tech ron on tuesday after meeting with iran's newly elected president, you see that here and attending his inauguration, iran state media says an airborne guided projectile was used to strike where hernia was staying in the iranian capital, hamas was quick to blame israel calling it a quote, zionist strike. >> there's been no official confirmation from israel, only saying it doesn't respond to reports from foreign media anya was a longtime member of hamas, joining in the late 1980s and rising through the ranks over the years before becoming the group's political chief. in 2017? well, in his statement or hamas spokesperson says, and i quote here this assassination will not achieve the goals of the occupation, will not push hamas to surrender i'm palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas calls hernias killing aid dangerous

development. >> indeed, a number of political leaders across the middle east have quickly condemned the assassination morning it could push the region even closer to a potential all-out war. >> these reports come after israel claims just hours earlier it killed hezbollah's most senior commander in a drone strike in beirut. israel says it was retaliation for saturday's deadly rocket attack in the occupied golan heights. >> well, the idf blamed for add sugar for that attack, which killed 12 children and injured more than 40 people. hezbollah denies it was responsible and has yet to confirm the commander's death in beirut. but the militant group does now acknowledge sugar was present at the time of the beirut strike. >> the liberty's health ministry says a woman and two children were killed in the beirut strike but with 74 others injured. >> lebanon's caretaker prime minister has condemned the attack. calling it a clear violation of international law. the idf insists it's not

looking for an all-out war hezbollah is ongoing aggression and brutal attacks are dragging the people of lebanon. and the entire middle east into a wider escalation well we prefer to resolve hostilities without a wider war the idf is fully prepared for any scenario on us defense secretary lloyd austin says, washington is pushing for a diplomatic solution. >> reiterating america's support for israel i don't think war is inevitable. >> i maintain that. i think there's always room and opportunities for diplomacy and i'd like to see parties pursue those opportunities if israel is attacked, we certainly will help defend israel lloyd austin

speaking well, joining us now here in london is chief international security correspondent nick paton walsh, ripe, two in the morning, tech ron time, a strike on the residents where hamas's political leader, ismail haniyeh was staying. >> he is killed. how, what do we know? >> we know very little this point. it seems in the coming minutes we may hear more from the irgc, the iranian revolutionary guard corps, about precisely what happened here. and it's those details that will dictate the next 48 hours. it's likely the kind of response iran feels. it has mandated or forced to prosecute. now, we're just actually heard from these supreme leader ali khamenei of iran, essentially, they're leading voice that this was a terrorized, terror and criminal zionist regime act. and that has paved the way way for hard punishment as a rough translation there, but essentially the highest voice in iran, pointing the finger directly at israel and saying that there must be some sort of clear response to avenge this

death. now rewinding back to your original question, becky, we know a 2am, an explosion. we don't know the extent of the damage. we don't know how precise or controlled that particular blast was. it appears to be that ismail haniah was staying in some sort of veterans guest house unclear under whose protection necessarily kind of a side issue, frankly, whose responsibility it was keeping him safe because he was into iran. he wasn't iran's securest bubble frankly, and should have felt as he most likely was asleep in his bed, safe, that particular night. so a startling breach of their own security. but whether this was a jet firing a missile or a drone piloted from israel launching the attack. or as you've seen before, saboteurs, groups of israeli agents acting on the grounds to this assassinate a singular individual with it seems pretty significant precision and good intelligence will force how many it seems into specific directions. and that's utterly key here because they have few good options at this point.

iran, it's unlikely. i would think at this point that this is the moment they choose to use their proxy hezbollah in lebanon to ignite a border conflict. there with israel. but that's one option. but it's one that been reluctant to do for a number of months. they tried to drone and missile attack back in april when key irgc commanders were killed in a strike on damascus, in damascus consulate there, and they simply didn't get through. so i think we're going there were a lot of fiery rhetoric here, but it's the exact nature of the details of this, the level of the embarrassment, the violation of iran sense of sovereignty that will force their hand. in particular directions, but make no mistake and we are in a very dangerous window here where literally 12 hours ago it was the southern beirut strike causing everyone to believe the region could be close to the precipice. now we have utterly unprecedented attack on a key figure in negotiations between hamas and israel, right in the heart of israel's sworn enemy. in the middle of their capital there because you just explain a bit more about who he was for

people who might be confused, he was the political leader, but it wasn't the military leader. know certainly in a separation between, your has sinwar inside it's thought of gaza, who is considered these sort of mastermind of their tebe seventh attacks against israel. and then hania, who clearly was seen, associate himself with those almost celebrating those attacks in the aftermath of october 7, but was a political figure seen by some as more comparatively he moderate mostly in doha in recent months, but involved in negotiations with the united states so i kind of bifurcation of hamas leadership to some degree. but one that didn't make a distinction in terms of who israel said they weren't necessarily going to hit. >> if you talk to sources around the region, they will tell you that this is a guy asian mile hania, the political leader of hamas, who was actually working through those mediation efforts and talks and pushing for a deal in a compromise and the interlocutor between of course, the those in

those talks and the militant weighing on the ground, including yahya sinwar, nic, you raise a really important point about where we stand with regard the region at present you and i spoke earlier. i think it's worth bringing up again, lloyd austin has said overnight the u.s. defense minister, that he doesn't see a regional escalation as inevitable at this point. he he what he hasn't said is it's not going to happen, it's just said it's not inevitable at this position saying war is inevitable, right? right. i mean, that's never going to be as job, but ultimately he is on the same talking points as he was yesterday. the big question in all of this it did the u.s. have full knowledge the band possibly in some way assist that would seem i would like to there's certainly making it clear publicly, it seems at this stage that that's not the case. and where does this leave us traction in the region period they were calling for de-escalation prior to the strike on southern beirut against that, he has built

commander now we're seeing an unprecedented attack hamas political figure inside of tehran itself really pushing the envelope of quiet what israel has done. so five, indeed it was israel at this point, but we'll fingers pointing in that direction. and so are the u.s. simply finding their calls not being returned anymore by a benjamin netanyahu after his recent visit, is he just pursuing his own direction? or is there something else at play here which we don't yet fully understand, but situations like this, it's very possible to think that the worst is ultimately unavoidable. but we've seen in previous months, people pull back the otter humanitarian catastrophe of a hezbollah israel war would be so devastating for both israelis and lebanese. and i think both sides, there are exceptionally anxious to avoid it. no one's gonna be a winner from it. it's not going to get the israelis back into their homes in northern israel by the beginning of the school year, even if it started now, just simply not going to happen and so we're in a place where iran clearly feel pressure to

respond in some way or other but exactly how this went down will dictate the nature of that. as we'll also to their capabilities, they're not a ten foot tall giant walking around the region. they didn't manage to get through with missiles and drones and april and that will probably linger in the back of their minds they do though, have proxies around the region who hundred personnel into any sort of a response at this point, nic. >> good to have you let's bring in ben wedeman. >> he is live for us in beirut. ben, within 24 hours. we've had someone very senior in both hezbollah and hamas takes can out. how do you read this certainly represents an escalation. >> the likes of which we have not seen in a long time now yesterday, just before 8:00 p.m. local time here in beirut, and shook her the military senior military commander with his balloon that seems to have been assassinated, although that hezbollah hasn't actually

confirmed that, that was already a notching up of tensions, but certainly the assassination in head-on of his smile hernia definitely represents just one more step. to the edge of the abyss. and before you were talking with nic about the u.s. talking about they don't think there's going to be a regional war. i don't think they would you have said that if they had known that this was going it's mine was going to be assassinated in tat on this certainly does present a notching up of tensions that we haven't seen yet know hezbollah has commented on the assassination of a smile hania describing him as one of the great resistance leaders of our present era. they go on to say in his butler share with our dear brothers in the hamas movement, all the feelings of pain over the loss of this great leader the feelings of

anger at the enemy's crimes. now of course we shall see what the response will be now in thousand for the israelis assassinated shahaf mud, you're seeing who was the founder and the spiritual leader of hamas. i was in gaza i'm everyone anticipated some sort of massive response by hamas, but they did relatively little. but that was 2004, that was 20 years ago. and i think if you look, the broad take a broad view of the region. you have this horrendous ongoing war in gaza which has left more than 40,000 people dead. you have tensions on the lebanese israeli border. higher than they've ever been before. you've had houthis who've successfully interfered with international navigation in the red sea. they've been able to fire a deadly drone all the way they did tel aviv. you have

iranian backed militias in syria and iraq ready to fire at us forces in that area. and now you iran mortally offended that israel has assassinated the head of the political leader of hamas because of the capital tat on all of this adds up to a scenario where it's hard to imagine a positive but come as we've been reporting now for days, for months neither side israel or hezbollah can afford really wants and all out war. but we are at the point where it is, there's a minefield of miscalculations through which everyone is walking included being the united states, which has been active in fairly passive diplomacy, not using all its leverage, all its power bring this conflict somehow to

an end ten months in, and it's just getting worse and it's getting more dangerous. and it doesn't appear there's going it'd be a ceasefire in gaza, which is really key to bringing the attention to an end. his bulla has made it clear. it will stop firing into israel as soon as there is a ceasefire in gaza. and we saw they've made good on that back in november of last year during that brief period during which more than 100 israel please hostages were released in exchange for the release of palestinian prisoners and detainees. so this solution is there. the problem is those who can actually make it happen aren't doing their job i see much talk and i'm hearing this from my own sources about the security apparatus of hezbollah being compromised in the attack in beirut and indeed the

revolutionary guards security apparatus. >> if indeed the house that hamas's political leader was in, was supposed to be supported by them where does this live leave israel and its confidence do you believe from your point of view, where does this leave israel? >> as far as its strength perceived strength around the region is concerned was certainly, there seemed to be serious lapses in the security of his balah, which is normally pretty good as well as iran. so clearly the israelis police have a level of intelligence and a ability to reach targets beirut's not far from israel, but to tout on is a long way away. and their ability to make

such a pinpoint strike in the capital of iran. and also finding where this, where i'd schuker was precisely yesterday just before 8:00 p.m. local time is quite an achievement now, having said that, let's not forget forget october 7, that was a massive israeli intelligence failure where for days they were unable to take, retake control of the border area around gaza. so it's a mixed picture. and in terms of israel's military abilities, it's one thing to do and points strike in baghdad on assassinating a hamas leader, quite an accomplishment. it's another of full scale war, for instance, with hezbollah, we have seen over the last ten months of hezbollah has military capabilities that even the israelis were surprised that they've been able to

shoot down top of the line is rarely drones dave enabled to disable much of this surveillance equipment that israel as along its borders they've been able to, in some instances, disabled the iron dome system or iron dome batteries and also anti-drone own defenses. so israelis himself acknowledged they had hezbollah has more than 150,000 missiles and rockets at their disposal and they've only used a tiny fraction of them. >> so their intelligence, the israelis chapeau, but his butler he has real ability to inflict intense pain on israel in the event of a full scale war. becky ben wedeman in beirut ben, thank you yeah. >> also joined from beirut by maha yahya, the director of the carnegie middle east center we

the reigning national guard, is apparently going to come out with a statement anytime now. that's the big concern, isn't it? whether iran will directly respond to this attack on their territory? how concerned you about that? >> good morning and thank you for having me. i'm very concerned the khomeini just came out and said that this happened on iranian soil and therefore, we have a responsibility to respond. unlikely assassination of imad mughniyeh. this did happen until her on and so i am very concerned that iran is going to want to respond in a certain way that sends a message. however, i think they will think carefully about this knowing full well, that any kind of response is going to pull an american reaction. and it's not just about israel, it's also about the u.s. the last thing iran wants right now is to get into a direct conflict with the united

states. at this point me ask you, is becky anderson out of london today couldn't get hi, good. so good to have you on you're on the ground in beirut's. i've been watching what you've been posting over the last 24 hours in response, of course, to the assassination of the hezbollah leader, there, what, how would you describe the atmosphere and what, what your sources telling you? about what happens next what happens next is really an unknown at this point no one has any idea in terms of how hezbollah is going to respond. >> they still haven't even announced that. a chucho is dead. the statement that they just put out earlier today said that he was in the building, but did not confirm that he was killed earlier reports had

indicated that he wasn't the building but had left so we're not sure where things are on that front. but the mood is very somber. people are very anxious and very worried about the prospect of an escalation. one that lebanon cannot afford. lebanon has been down this road so many times with israel already. 78, 80 to 93, 96, and 2006, these are all dates of israeli invasion of lebanon or war between kevin on israel. so it's not something that the lebanese want to see yet are live through one more time. >> there's also quite a bit of cynicism around that the fact that israel is using the horrific attack on majdal shams in a way to kind of eliminate more of its adversaries and do away with the prospect of any

ceasefire with the palestinians. >> they really want to turn this into a conflict between israel and iran rather than with the palestinians there's a lot of concern around that, which then means that this will not be limited to this is going to drag in the u.s. and others into, into the fold, especially if iran's other partners and proxies in the region also get involved as we're all expecting already you've obviously studied how hezbollah operates for many years why do you think they're not confirming the death? are they trying to figure out a strategy and a message there? >> good. probably trying to figure out what to do next. on the one hand, and perhaps, i mean, they may not have located the body quite honestly, there's still searching under the rubble. the toll has now risen to four dead and 80 injured as a result of this attack. so i think there they're buying some time

probably to try and coordinate with iran and see how best to respond to this. and in what way they cannot take it sitting down at the same time. they understand that any kind of response is going to drop bring, bring on another reaction from israel. and we could just go down the path of a regional conflict that will literally see the end of lebanon as it is today yeah. >> i mean what a statement just the prospects are just terrific and it's it's striking the sense of adventurism i think. >> and the sense of impunity that this particular israeli government is showing in the kitchen so all of this as a ceasefire in gaza, get a ceasefire mean enough, enough bloodshed, enough killing, get to ceasefire in gaza and de-escalate and the rest of the

region that certainly what you and i are hearing around the region. and we have been hearing that wrapped around the region since of course, mid mid october maha it's good to have you. thank you very much. >> indeed, the prospects of a peace deal are now reduced in the short-term. surely, i've spoken to people this morning about the role of ishmael haniyeh, the political leader of hamas, who's been absolutely integrally involved based in doha, of course, and integrity involved in what are these indirect? >> talks between israel and hamas in trying to get a conclusion to this many people will tell you this is the, this is the guy he was, you were they were lean into to help find some sort of compromise on the nil on the deal. somebody who might disagree with that positioning given that he is, hamas's political leader. he that at the end of the day, that was, that was certainly the view. and so one school of thought that says basically the guy was hoping to help solve

seal a deal has gone the other school of thought says, and so therefore the deal has gone. and this was something that was some momentum for this in rome just earlier this week. others will say benjamin netanyahu has got a win out of this assassinating the israelis aren't admitting to it as of yet, but the alleged assassination of the hamas leader gives him a when does that put him back at the negotiation table? and does that make a ceasefire? and hostage deal actually more likely we do not know where this stands at present. we will but we will we will see in the next in the next days and weeks we've got lots of experts coming up to give their view on what is a very sort of, an unknown vector me, i'm not saying it's political leader has been assassinated in tehran will be back allegiance flag

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tech iran after attending the inauguration of iran's new president on tuesday, israel, so far not commenting or claiming responsibility for 62 well 20 was born in a gaza refugee camp. he joined hamas in the late 1980s during the first intifada. and the rose through the ranks, becoming the group's political chief in 2017. and soon after he was named a specially designated global terrorist by the u.s. cnn's paula hancocks joins us now, live from abu dhabi, despite all of that, he was seen as someone that the international community could work with. what's been the loss to the diplomacy here for her mass well, max, he was certainly the most visible hamas leader since the october 7 attacks. we have been seeing him carrying out to indirect negotiations with israel since then. when it comes to these hostage ceasefire talks and he

has been very key when it comes to speaking to the two key mediators, qatar and egypt was based in doha, qatar for some years and really did have appear to have the freedom to be able to move around the region at will. he has been out of the gaza strip for some time so within the gaza strip if itself it is known that yahya sinwar is the main leader he is the one who israel believes is currently hiding in the tunnels below gaza. and he is really the one that is believed to have the final say when it comes to this potential hostage deal but we you have seen izmail hania playing a key interlocutor role really when it comes to these talks and what we had been seeing in recent weeks was potentially a

willingness by this individual to push this deal forward. he had shown a willingness to reach a deal if israel would agree to pull its troops completely out of gaza. that was one of the things he had been saying in recent weeks. the understanding we have is that from yahya sinwar's point of view, there is a more hard-line position being taken. so certainly there is a concern by many that this now, at least in the short-term, has put these talks on hold as one of the key mediators on the lead i should say interlocutors on the hamas side has now been assassinated. it is understood but there is also a concern that this now leaves a more hard line response from hamas. i mean, we've, we've seen many of the other leaders today give the expected fiery statements in response to this killing hamas is samia abu zoo

cree for example, calling it a grave escalation, the moment of truth has come. another leader saying that this will not pass in vain. of course it's a big question as to how hamas could respond to this. it has been severely weakened during this war in gaza since the october 7 attacks by hamas in israel. but we have also seen the palestinian authority president, for example, mahmoud abbas condemning what has happened, saying quote he strongly condemned the assassination of the head of the hamas movement, calling him the great leader is male hania, and considered it a cowardly act. and a dangerous development. now we have seen from other leaders in the region as well condemnation of this this particular killing, but it does raise the question as to going forward, if israel does want to continue, as one would assume, to have these

negotiations on a potential ceasefire hostage deal who would they then be talking to as we know, yahya sinwar believed, holed up underground in gaza has a far more hardline approach to these talks. that ismail haniyeh did okay. >> paula, thank you. i've got a question about we've got this response from israel saying they haven't denied it. they've said they don't comment on foreign media reports, but is that quite common attacks alleged attacks by israel on assets in iran? >> so it doesn't surprise me, donalds there i say that would have been their response. >> that would very likely be there as yeah. >> okay. >> we're following these breaking news developments out of iran, and that's the assassination of the mass political leader, ismail haniyeh. >> we're live in israel with reaction to that just ahead

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president, won a massive official calls the assassination a cowardly act, and says, haniyeh's killing, quote, will not pass in vain. >> the reports, if hernias killing came just hours because after israel said it killed, hezbollah's most senior military commander in a drone strike in beirut. >> the idf claims for shook group was responsible for the attack that left a dozen children dead in the golan heights last saturday. hezbollah acknowledges he was in the building the time of the beirut attack, but the group has yet to confirm his death turkey's foreign ministry is warning the region could face a much larger conflict if quote, the international community doesn't take action to stop israel will live now to haifa, israel and to cnn's jeremy diamond no official response. >> no confirmation of the ownership of this strike on tech last night that took out the hamas political leader by

israel. >> what is the atmosphere? >> there? and any surprise that we have not had any response from israel at this point well, no official response from the israeli government. >> but as you said, i mean these israeli political and military officials have made clear for months now effectively since the first days of the war, that they would reach out and strike any hamas leaders who they believed were responsible for the october 7 attacks on israel and make no mistake about it while it's mile haniah was not a military leader of hamas, was not necessarily involved in planning the group's military and terrorist activities he's certainly was viewed as responsible as the group's political leader and he was at the very top among the top of the list of for israel in an

exacting, a retribution for those attacks on october 7 and israel has not only now accomplish that, but they have also shown they could do it in the far reaches of tehran, in the iranian capital, showing the long arm as it is referred to we security establishment now the questions are now about exactly what the implications of this will be in a region that was already very, very much on edge in the last 24 hours. we have seen israel takeout two senior leaders of a iranian proxy groups, not only it's mile haniah, the head of hamas, but also of one of the two, hassan nasrallah, who was taken out in an israeli strike yesterday evening in beirut. according to the israeli military. so this was a region that was very much already on edge now appears to be teetering further on the brink of a broader escalation. and

then of course there are those ceasefire and hostage negotiations which earlier this week we saw the israeli government's response to those talks thanks. move those talks forward. >> in the short term, at least this will, without a doubt, have an enormous implication, enormous impact on the the medium-term, the long, a bit harder to discern, but there's no question that haniah was a key interlocutor with the mediators viewed as perhaps a more pragmatic addict voice within hamas on those ceasefire talks. >> and so a lot of questions about how things will move forward in the future. >> jeremy diamond in haifa, israel, and to our viewers apologies slight issues with the technology that we're gonna bring in brett bruen, though he's a former official with the u.s national security council and the state department. he's also the president of the consulting firm. the global situation room. he comes to us live from tel a wreath in spain. thank you so much for joining us from there i've just got a really simple question which is surely

america, israel wouldn't have carried out a strike like this without discussing or warning america well, i wouldn't necessarily make that assumption. >> we've seen several times over the last several months that benjamin netanyahu has brazenly ventured into very dangerous territory and done so without even the courtesy of informing washington in forming the u.s. president beforehand, this may well be another one of those equations and it obviously comes at a very income i mean, it time for president biden and his team, they were trying to advance the ball towards some sort of ceasefire agreement and i think this is one of those moments where the international community, both the u.s. but also regional powers as well, have to stop taking such a laissez faire approach to this. there has to be an

intervention. >> we have lloyd austin, the defense minister overnight suggest that regional escalation and i quote him here is not inevitable, but given what you've just said bread i mean, what do we make of what lloyd austin even knows at this point and what it means by that. do you have any confidence in the defense minister's words at this point? >> well, becky, i saw secretary austin's comments. and quite frankly, i think they were too passive. this is which requires the united states, it requires riyadh, as well as qatar and other regional powers to engage more actively, to engage more publicly lee and i think what has happened over the last several months has been this effort it backroom diplomacy. and clearly it is spiraling out of control. and there is a need to take a more assertive, a

more aggressive approach so that we don't find ourselves a regional conflict what's the conversations happening now in capitals around the world allies of israel how freaked out do you think they are and can they agree on sort of a joint strategy between them on how to deal with israel and iran i think jeremy diamond's report was illustrative of just how tectonic shift we have seen in the last for the last 72 hours. >> the fact you have taken off of the chessboard, two major players of iranian proxies and the fact also that this attack took place on iranian soil. >> what i believe designed also to send a message to tehran to the new iranian leadership. >> and that is important, but it's also concerning because it brings into the for the

possibility we could be looking at them much wider conflict bread, there will be those who say that benjamin netanyahu acts with, continues to act with impunity, and will be emboldened by these two assassinations. >> i'm interested in something you just brought up a little earlier about riyadh doha, et cetera, getting more involved in what happens now. and next. >> just just further explain what you mean by that. >> and explain what you believe. for example, riyadh's role might be going forward well, i think when it comes to those regional powers, especially qatar, it's important they are article now, some red lines for hamas and hezbollah, it is important that they are saying we need to return to the process of negotiations and diplomacy but, we would not look favorably. we

would condemn and we would perhaps even take steps should hamas should hezbollah respond any disproportionate manner. and i know becky that those are diplomatic defense terms, but what it basically means is we should not see a more aggressive military terry operation that would lead israel to respond in kind or even worse and just to your point, let's just bring up what qatar has said this morning, brett. >> thank you max cattle calls the killing of the hamas political leader haniyeh a heinous crime and the killing of alleged assassination as a dangerous escalation, they leave it at that at this point, brett bruen that suggesting that both carter doha and the wider gulf region perhaps needs to get well, i seem really frustrated by this, but he's

saying this, qatar so central right? if they are i, mean could they sent fire and hostage negotiations which they've been mediating for some time, central in that they have open and good relations with tech ran for example. so again, you know he makes a very good point. let's see where the gulf countries go with regard getting at least involved in the narrative here in seeking a solution, we will be right back the edge moments that shaped our culture coming this fall on cnn, university of maryland global campus is a school for real life, one that values that successes you've already achieved, earn up to 90 underground trump credits for relevant experience, and get the support you need from your

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the region towards further escalation towards an all-out war that everyone had been worried about and that's the thing, right? max, is that people have been worried about this region being pushed towards regional confrontation since october, right? and it feels that every few weeks we are here talking about another escalation then unprecedented escalation. and here we are again, and it's not just the assassination of ismail haniah. it is what's happened over the past 24 hours when you're talking about to targeted attacks taking place in two different capitals, which a lot of people in the region are looking at this and seeing this as again, of course, the israelis have not yet taken credit for or claimed the assassination of haniah, but they are looking at this as an attempt to try and push for further escalation in the region. and big question right now is how is iran going to

respond to this? and how are they responding? >> isn't going is it going to respond as a question? >> but then again, you also have the iranian proxies yemen, lebanon, syria, iraq, and elsewhere that could get involved in this in any sort of retaliation or response the us targeting us bases, targeting these israelis, we have to wait and see what happens as a huge embarrassment, obviously for the iranians to that point, we've just had a statement from iran supreme leader and this is to israel. you killed are dead guest in all house and now have paved the way for your harsh punishment. >> so we'll have to wait and see what's territory that's the point they're making, right? >> i mean, for the iranian intelligence, for the iranian security services, for the regime, what an embarrassment this is for the stuff taken place on iranian soil, much going to keep following breaking news for you. >> thank you most come the

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