Hamas Leader Killed In Tehran, Fears Of A Larger War Intensify.
“Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed early Wednesday in central Tehran, an apparent assassination that Iran and Hamas blamed on Israel and pledged to avenge. The killing, following a strike in Lebanon that Israel said killed a senior Hezbollah military commander, threatened to plunge the unstable region further into chaos and raised fresh doubts about Gaza cease-fire talks underway in Rome.
Israeli officials declined to comment on the death of Haniyeh, Hamas’s political chief in exile who was visiting Tehran for the inauguration of the newly elected Iranian president. Details of the killing remained unclear.”
The Biden Administration will be going into diplomatic overdrive today in an effort to prevent the Middle East conflict, raging since last October, turning into an all out regional war. Thus far the conflict has remained primarily between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and that is the way the Administration hope it remains, especially in an election year. Kamala Harris, if elected, will be the new face of American foreign policy and she will be inheriting this whole mess with little hope of a broader peace agreement.
