Iran vows to avenge killing of Hamas political leader Haniyeh
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Palestinian militant group, Hamas, says its political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, has been killed in Iran. Will this lead to a regional escalation?
Also on the programme: Costa Rica has said it is prepared to offer the Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, asylum after reports the government in Caracas had issued an arrest warrant for her; and Australia starts the world-first peanut allergy treatment for babies.
(Photo: Palestinian group Hamas' top leader, Ismail Haniyeh, pictured in March. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service. We're coming to you |
| 0:07.2 | live from London. I'm James Menendez and we're going to begin today in the |
| 0:11.6 | Middle East and what can only be described as a dramatic escalation in tensions between Israel and Iran and its regional allies Hamas based in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. That's after Hamas announced that its political leader |
| 0:26.4 | Ishmaelhaniya had been killed in an airstrike on the building he was staying in in the |
| 0:31.2 | Iranian capital Tehran, an attack that Hamas says was carried out by Israel. |
| 0:37.0 | Mr. Hania was in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran's new president. |
| 0:41.2 | He'd been pictured on Tuesday laughing and smiling as he met |
| 0:44.9 | Iranian officials. |
| 0:46.0 | I'm probably to me a post Iran. |
| 0:48.3 | As Shah had that is my own here that he said after the |
| 0:51.7 | she was here. Well, that's Iranian State TV reporting what it described as the assassination of Ismail |
| 0:59.1 | Hanier along with one of his bodyguards. |
| 1:02.1 | The attack came in the early hours of this morning around 2 a.m. |
| 1:06.2 | Today Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenai promised to avenge his death, |
| 1:11.2 | vowing harsh punishment as he put it. |
| 1:14.8 | Israel hasn't so far commented. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, this was the reaction of some people |
| 1:18.6 | in the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the Occupy West Bank. Frankly, the news was shocking for all Palestinian people at home and abroad. |
| 1:30.0 | It was a cowardly operation and another crime to add to the occupation's record of assassinations |
| 1:36.4 | of resistance fighters, Mujahideen and leaders of the Palestinian people. |
| 1:41.3 | There will be a response. |
| 1:46.6 | There will be a strong response and also a response from Lebanon. |
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