Is the Middle East poised to erupt into a widespread, large-scale regional war after the Israeli

government assassinated senior leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah?

We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but iscker.

Today we're talking with Professor Mohamed Mirandi.

Muhammad is a professor at Tehran University. He's an expert on American Studies.

Muhammad, welcome back.

Thank you very much for having me.

Muhammad, I'm looking at the Wall Street Journal today. It says, in Israel, support grows for offensive against Hezbollah.

So some part of the Israeli establishment and apparently the Israeli population prefers to have

a war with Lebanon.

Anyway, this all follows the assassination of Ismail Haniyah, the senior Hamas leader,

who was the negotiator on the Gaza war. He was murdered the day or the night he attended

the presidential inauguration in your country in Iran. Obviously, the Israeli government was trying

to provoke something or send a message. And the whole world is waiting right now to see whether

Iran and Hezbollah will respond. Will Iran respond? Iran will definitely respond. It has no option but to respond.

If the Iranians show restraint, then the Israeli regime will carry out another attack in future

and kill more people.

And that will be unacceptable to ordinary Iranians.

And then we're going to have to hit the Israeli regime even harder.

So it's best to strike the regime and create deterrence now.

In April, when the Israeli regime bombed the Iranian consulate in Damascus and murdered 12 people,

the Iranians retaliated because they had no option back then either. If the Iranians had not

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