Hi, and welcome back to a special edition of The Insider from our studios in London.
I'm Edward Carr, the Economist's deputy editor.
Now, over the weekend, American and Israel struck Iran with a wave of missiles and bombs.
And within hours, President Donald Trump announced the death of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran and its proxy, Hezbollah, are striking back at the Gulf States and Israel,
and across the region civilians are being caught in the crossfire.
President Trump has said both that the conflict could last for up to five weeks,
and that he is willing to talk.
So what now?
And what next for Iran and the wider region?
And joining me in the studio to talk about this are Shashank Joshi, our defense editor,
and Adam Roberts, our foreign editor.
And down the line from Jerusalem is our Israel correspondent, Anshel Pfeffer,
and from Riyadh, our Middle East correspondent, Gregg Carlstrom.
Welcome to both of you, and welcome to you in the studio.
Now we're recording this at 1:30 on Monday,
and as we do this, there is a press conference going on in Washington.
And I want to get at three things today.
The first is what's actually happened since those strikes on Saturday morning.
Secondly, what does the death of the Ayatollah and supreme leader mean for Iran?