Welcome to Navarra Life. We're on day 18 of the war on Iran and it's been a very significant one.

Mainly, that's because Israel has announced they have assassinated one of Iran's most senior leaders, Ali Larajani.

Also, though, it's because in Washington, the US counter-terrorism chief has resigned in protest at the war, which he said

was started because the Israel lobby tricked Donald Trump.

A real Trump loyalist, a very dramatic resignation.

On a day of important developments, I'll be joined throughout the show by a brilliant guest.

Daniel Levy is a British-Israeli

political analyst, a former Israeli negotiator during the Oslo process. And he also recently launched a

brilliant substack, which you should all check out. Daniel, welcome back to the show.

Despite the circumstances, as they're always quite bleak, it's good to be with you, Michael.

Yeah, we need to find a good news story to get you on for, but it will probably keep being in the middle-east.

Until then.

Maybe Arsenal.

Yeah, carry on.

So we will be discussing those two big events from the day, also doing a broader deep dive into Israel's strategy in the Iran war.

And we've sort of been touching on that over the past two weeks,

but I thought it would be useful to go deep with someone really in the know.

And Daniel is very much someone who fits that bill.

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forward slash support. I'm straight into that first story. Israel today announced they have

killed Ali Larajani, who was secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council,

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