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I do think there's a clock ticking.

The more he says here, we sit back and relax,

something's going to go hysterically wrong.

The tensions inside Iran are palpable.

It's always been the Iranian position that if there's to be a ceasefire,

it's a ceasefire on all fronts. I still think both sides don't want to go back to full

fully put its war. From the Guardians today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hav.

So Patrick, it's been a week of strikes and counter strikes in the Middle East over the weekend.

You as our diplomatic editor have been right across this.

We've had strikes from the US on Iran, but also counter strikes on Kuwait.

But more recently, we have strikes on southern Beirut that's

led to mass evacuation orders. What's been going on because it's been met by a very strong

response from Iran? Yes, I think the Israelis are stepping up with all their activity in

Lebanon. They've gone north the Latani River, which is seen to be the kind of bridge point.

And as you say, they're probably now heading into the southern suburbs of Beirut and there is

mass sort of cars rushing to get out and no one quite knows exactly whether Nanyar's got permission from the Americans to really be active in Beirut.

It's certainly influencing and affecting a great deal of the negotiations about Iran,

because the Iranians have always said they will protect Hezbollah and the level of attrition of their senior military commanders

is now kind of quite remarkable.

And the death tolls over 3,000 and evacuations, I think, of about 20% of the whole population.

And I think there's so much pressure now on the Iranians to say that they won't

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