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00:00We have Filippo Dionisi, a senior lecturer of international relations at the University
00:04of Bristol.
00:05Hello to you, and thank you for joining the program as well.
00:08I'd like to ask you the first question.
00:10Your reaction to this startling announcement from Israel's military that Hassan Nasrallah
00:16is allegedly dead?
00:19I think we are in uncharted territory.
00:21What we can expect after this is entirely impossible to predict at this point.
00:29If it is confirmed, the death of Nasrallah, it means that Hezbollah will have to regroup
00:34and nominate a new secretary general, most likely will be Hashem Safieddin, another leading
00:42figure of the party, but with a far less public profile, and certainly not with the charisma
00:47that Nasrallah was capable of having over the sheer population of Lebanon.
00:52What will happen next is difficult to say.
00:55What we can certainly notice for now is that the so-called axis of resistance has thus
01:00far failed to react to the attacks, or perhaps, again, is exercising self-restraint.
01:08But at this point, it looks like much more deformed than the latter, I must say.
01:13And that means that they are in a far weaker position.
01:16Israel will be tempted to capitalize on the results that they think they have achieved
01:22so far and probably will go ahead with the operations that it has already undertaken
01:27so far with the same strength, if not even worse, actually.