earlier we heard from a foreign f as in strategy x, but the university of militia that he says, the militia of support for palestinians is on the way very to what is your has been weakened, stands against east bed for the fall as many documents and for this issue with me, i will specify to you in terms of supporting the costs of the price, the new cost, the cost and speed. and we have seen yet, you know, according to the bonds since the attack. and we have to also seen how many to ask for. so i know being based at foss with our, you know, the calls walk you through the stop. it was pretty easy because, and speed. and we have seen that the policy do you ask me to counsel, and they have been a lot of different and fabulous to go so long. we to ensure that, you know, israel was no, be, be, you know, responsible for the project is been completed. and we have see now the research and i know the happenings in 11 and we have also seemed up on the the call. so i'm us, the resistors and you know, the, the jury ability of the, the, the, how much side doesn't god we have seen how know the that that wo

university of sussex. we appreciate it. thank you. i, to meantime, the leader of the living on base has beloved militia has promised retaliation over the killing of a top mazda official in bay route on wednesday. has beloved lanes. israel for the attack, although there has been no claim of responsibility, is real generally doesn't comment on strikes in other countries. but officials have previously said that they would target most leaders wherever they are. also is classified as a terrorist group by multiple countries. waiving the most flag, protest is in ramallah voice. the supports in tango this evening and the occupied westbank was a certain town of cell, a roommate or a high ranking. most official was killed in a striking bay roots on tuesday. and natalie got into the cause is crazy, hysterical event. you know, need the preventative is israel field and that he and is experiencing a kind of defeat. oh no, i'm in the mail. it knows full well. yeah, there's no victory for it. yeah. i'm that they so 90 got mean and decided la, a sallow re was deputy to her mazda is lita is smell honey, a and the groups kaylee a's on with has the law in

of candles left by people outside the university. intense fighting has been reported in recent weeks in ethiopia's northwestern amhara province between local militiasl religious festival in the historic city of gondar. 0ur correspondent kalkidan yibeltal has been attending the festivities. bells ring the epiphany holidays include three days of festivities observed among followers of 0rthodox christianity, and we're now in the final stages. these faithful are escorting replicas of the ark of the covenant or tabots as they are called here, back into their respective parishes after the tabots spent days near a 17th—century baptism pool. the tabots, which are found in every ethiopian parish, are said to have inscriptions of the ten commandments. the holy days themselves mark the baptism ofjesus christ on the riverjordan, and the main event takes place on the second day, where many of the faithful, particularly among young people, leap into the pool in symbolic baptisms after priest and rights prayers are held. in this historic city of gondar, home to magnificent unesco registered castles, normally tens of thousands attend these holy days, filling the s

university of new haven and retired navy captain. sir, good morning to you. thank you for being here. president biden is promising to retaliate, but of course the u.s. first has to identify which militia group is actually responsible. how do you think the u.s. is likely to respond to this? >> well, we'll respond significantly. the united states will look for the exact group, but if we can't identify the exact group, as your reporter just noted, there are umbrella groups who have connections to all of these groups. so we'll look for the group that has the largest and greatest connection to iran and try to punish that group as best we can. >> what is your sense of how much iranians honestly care about us striking those kinds of groups? we're seeing escalating calls from republican leaders in congress to strike more directly, in fact some are recalling on us to strike inside iran. what is the balance there?arere inside iran. what is the balance there? >> the balance is if we strike inside iran, we have committed an international act of war in violation of several articles of international law and the united nations charter. so that is not a self-defense strike under article 51 of the cha

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university. amna: the u.s. consulate in northern iraq came under fire tonight and iran's revolutionary guard corps claimed responsibility. it is the latest in a series of attacks by iranian and iranian backed militiahe region dense hamas attacked israel october 7 and israel launched a response in gaza. barrages have been traded while the houthi in yemen have launched missiles to israel. for more on iran's objectives and influence we turn to the senior fellow at the carnegie endowment for international peace. before we get into the details of some of these groups and their relationship with iran, broadly speaking, what is the strategy of iran? >> it is an important question. i would argue since the 1979 as la mike revolution, there have been few governments in the world that of had a more consistent grand strategy. there are three pillars to their strategy. number one, it is intent on you big the united states from the middle east. number two, they are intent on replacing israel with palestine. number three they want to help defeat the u.s. led world order. i would argue that iran and its regional proxies share these three objectives. amna: using the militias give them some degree of deniability. t

militia throughout the region. theyontrol the universities. from iran we basically exchange hegemon for hegemon. many ofd daughters are currently in syria. iranians are the problem. absolute, 1000% deterrent is the only thing that will stop this. i want everybody out there listening to this and i mean that in the most sincere way, these people -- i want you to imagine if on our own border a group of people flew in on paraglider's and murdered 1400 people literally in their beds -- host: we got the point. mr. friedman: i support israel's right toefend itself. we don't have to have an invented scenario to imagine ericans being killed. i supported the war in afghanistan. i am in favor of there being no more hamas. i looki at it from a u.s. perspective and we ha to keep in mind at ournterests are not the same as israel's. they will do what they are goi to do. it is difficult to get them to listen to us particularly on things that they deem essential to their security. what we have to do is ask how much do we want to be responsible that and how much do we want to consider our relationship with israel as one