Bombs, boat sinkings and assassinations: is the Middle East descending into war?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, making sense of a violent week in the Middle East. The first bomb went off at about 3 p.m. not far from the Garden of Martyr's Cemetery in |
| 0:35.5 | Kaman in southern Iran. |
| 0:40.1 | A huge crowd of people had gathered there to memorialise Kasam Salamani, a general who was killed years ago by the US military. |
| 0:49.2 | As the sound of the explosion rippled through the crowd people started to panic |
| 0:53.7 | screaming and running away. 15 minutes later another bomb went off nearby. |
| 1:00.5 | We are still waiting to get more details around the specifics of the motive, perhaps behind the attack, |
| 1:06.1 | who may have carried out the attack. |
| 1:08.1 | Iranian state media, again citing officials have characterized this as a terrorist attack. |
| 1:14.0 | At least 84 people died in the attack on Wednesday, |
| 1:18.0 | making it the worst bombing since the Islamic Republic was founded. |
| 1:23.0 | Iran's president has vowed to take revenge. |
| 1:28.0 | He initially blamed Israel, but late yesterday, Islamic State claimed responsibility. |
| 1:37.0 | 2,000 kilometers away in Lebanon a day earlier, there had been a separate attack. |
| 1:49.3 | A drone strike in a residential suburb of Beirut killed one of the leaders of Hamas. |
| 1:55.6 | An explosion in Beirut has killed Salé Arrui, a top official of the Palestinian |
| 2:00.6 | militant group Hamas. |
| 2:01.8 | Lebanon's prime minister has blamed the Israeli government and accused them of |
| 2:06.2 | trying to drag his country into a regional war. |
| 2:10.8 | And in the Red Sea, more violence on the route towards Israel. |
| 2:15.0 | Rising tensions in the Red Sea after a US strike on Iran-based rebels that left several dead. |
| 2:21.0 | Iran is now reportedly deploying a warship to the region. |
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