Is the U.S.–Israel escalation pushing the Middle East toward all-out war?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is the point.

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  Iran confirmed Sunday that its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli attacks on Saturday.

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  A country has now formed an interim leadership council until the selection of the next Supreme Leader.

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  US President Donald Trump warned Iran not to retaliate.

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  Further, after US-Israeli strikes, all American forces would hit them with a force,

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  quote unquote, that has never been seen before.

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  The world's reactions have been very mixed.

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  with some Western countries warning they could join the war on Iran

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  while China has firmly opposed and strongly condemned the killing of the Supreme Leader.

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  So what comes next for Iran?

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  What endgame are the US and Israel pursuing in the region and how far could the ripple effects spread across the region and possibly beyond?

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  Welcome to this special edition of The Point with me Liu Xin,

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  an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from Tehran, Iran by Fawad Izzadi,

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  Associate Professor for Faculty of Word Studies at the University of Tehran.

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  From Johannesburg, South Africa by Vijay Prashad.

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  Director of the Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research.

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  I'm here in the studio by Zhang Gong,

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  Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics here in China.

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