For more on the killing of the Hamas leader in Iran, we get two views now.

Nathan Brown, professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University,

and Hanine Gaddar, the Friedman Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

That's a think tank.

Thank you both for being with us.

Hanine, I'll start with you a question about the timing and location, coming right after the killing of a top Hezbollah commander in Beirut

and that this happened in Tehran following the inaugural of Iran's new president.

What message does this send to Iran?

Good evening.

Thank you for having me.

This is basically the main question.

What's happening now?

Like Israel could have responded with one assassination on one attack on Hezbollah

after the Mejdal-Szshan's incident.

But I think the message with the assassination of Oatrukur in Lebanon and the assassination of Hania in

Tehran also at the same time there has been some US strikes in Iraq against the

Shia militias the Iran-backed Shia militias.

According to the Hezbollah perspective, the Iran's perspective, what they see is a coordinated

attack.

Maybe it's not a coordinated attack, but this could be a message of pushing for deterrence,

deterring Iran, not necessarily inviting Iran for war.

I feel that today Hezbollah and the IRGC are facing a catch-22 in the sense that they do not want to reach a full-scale war because this is not their war and this is not something that they want to go for but at the same time they have to respond they have to walk a very thin line in terms of what kind of response they have to achieve and they want to move from this episode as fast as

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