00:00war zone in west asia and israeli official has confirmed to the jerusalem post that israel
00:07is tempted to assassinate iran's intelligence minister in an overnight strike now his name is
00:14ismail khatib and he's considered the person closest to mushtaba he is heading the intelligence
00:22arm of iran remember this will be extremely crucial why because already yesterday we heard
00:29of two top uh significant figures of iran getting targeted and being killed ali larijani and also the
00:38basid chief and after this one of another top leaders in the government ismail khatib
00:44is now considered to have been targeted in fact it is israel that is claiming that they have targeted
00:52him and attempted an assassination overnight but what is the result of that that is yet to be
00:59known has he been killed has he been named what is his situation right now that needs to be confirmed
01:05as of yet
01:08and joining us right now from jerusalem is amayan hoffman thank you very much amayan for speaking
01:14with india today what do you know about this strike and the situation of the israeli intelligence
01:21minister right i beg your pardon iranian intelligence minister right now
01:28so we are still getting conflicting reports the israel has not yet been able to confirm that he was in
01:33fact assassinated but different sources have told israeli media that that attempt did take place
01:38overnight we know that that comes after very successful assassinations that took place yesterday the
01:44killing of ali lariani and the basid chief which happens again on monday night and so
01:49we're know that israel is working on what we call a leveled um assassination attempt to ensure that there
01:54won't be uh strong leadership left in the iranian regime to continue operating and the people will be able
02:00to rise up just yesterday i conducted an interview with a spokeswoman woman for the prime minister's
02:05office here in israel and she spoke about um them having a hit list of all of the top uh
02:11individuals and
02:12you know one of the reasons that they target specifically these kinds of people especially
02:17lariani and the basid chief is so that when the people do are able to take to the streets when
02:22the
02:22airstrikes are over that they will be able to have control of the infrastructure and there will not be
02:26people to mow them down like we saw in january and hopefully that'll bring about regime change
02:32well israel has not stated that as one of the specific goals of its campaign meaning that israel
02:36doesn't expect or the united states does not expect to cause regime change what they are trying to do
02:42right at the playing field right thank you very much mayan for those details
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