Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent and Middle East analyst, tracks Israel’s latest assassinations in Iran and the shockwaves through Tehran. He also looks at a strike on a major gas field, Iran and Hezbollah’s retaliation, and why Volodymyr Zelensky fears the widening conflict could hurt Ukraine.
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Israel’s Assassinations Expose Iran Yet Don’t Break It
Israel’s killings show deep intelligence penetration in Iran, but they have not yet toppled or paralyzed the Islamic Republic.
Frank Gardner says Mossad appears to know where senior figures are, yet the “deep state” still has the guns and vested interests to survive.
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South Pars Strike Expands War To Energy Infrastructure
The strike on South Pars marks a major escalation because it hits Iran’s energy backbone, not just military targets.
Qatar condemned the attack on the shared gas field as a threat to global energy security, regional safety, and the environment.
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Hezbollah Targets Are Pulling Lebanon’s Civilian Life Apart
Lebanon’s crisis shows how targeting Hezbollah-linked institutions spills far beyond combatants into civilian systems.
Firas Abiyad reports overloaded hospitals, dead healthcare workers, and mass displacement, while Hugo Bachega says even central Beirut no longer feels safe.
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Iran's Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib has been killed in an overnight Israeli strike. It comes just a day after Israel assasinated Ali Larijani and another senior Iranian commander, and as thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran for their funerals. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian described the latest killing as ''cowardly".
Also: an Iranian petrochemical complex on the world's largest natural gas field is hit by Israeli airstrikes - a significant escalation against Iran's energy infastructure. Retaliatory strikes by Iran and its allied militia groups continue across the region. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky tells the BBC he has a "very bad feeling" about the impact of the Middle East conflict on the situation in Ukraine.
Elsewhere, the death toll in Monday's deadly Pakistani strike on Kabul is confirmed at more than 140. Also: Disney has a new chief executive - we find out what might be in his inbox. Our correspondent in Havana reports on how Cubans are continuing to struggle amid a three-month fuel blockade by the Trump administration. And how Venezuela defeated the US to win the World Baseball Classic in a thrilling final in Miami.
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