Sebastian Usher

From everything that Israel had been saying, that Mr Netanyahu had been saying, there was no sense that Lebanon was going to be included in this. It now may become the case, because the risks to that ceasefire being sustained and building into an actual resolution to this crisis that President Trump is facing as a political crisis, that the Iranian leadership is facing as an existential crisis...

That has to be resolved. And if Israel's ambitions to try and obliterate Hezbollah, which they've tried before and they've failed before, whether that interferes with that, then that will be taken into account. And Washington will try to ensure that it doesn't interfere. I don't think that will prevent Israel and Mr Netanyahu continuing to

With their offensive against Hezbollah at some point, with some great intensity later, but they may suspend it for now in order to give these talks a chance.

I'm on the Mount of Olives just outside the church Bethpage where there is a small mass being said around 70 or 80 of a local Christian community here for Palm Sunday.

Now Palm Sunday is normally a huge event here.

Thousands of people from a local community but also from around the world.

They are given palms.

They would walk out of the church after mass, and they walk up to the top of Mount of Olives and then down into the Old City through Lion Gate, then to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

But all of that is closed.

There's fears if a missile was intercepted, a fragment came down, any kind of mass event like that could be a serious risk.

From the perspective of the U.S.

and Israel, I mean, there couldn't have been a better start to this campaign to have taken out the supreme leader in the opening hours.

I mean, it seems clear now that that was the reason why the attack took place when it did, because the opportunity presented itself.

I mean, last summer during the 12 day war, President Trump had spoken about it.

The U.S.

and Israel's ability to kill Khamenei if they wanted to, but there seemed a sense then that Trump was holding back from that.

The fact that they have targeted him and done so successfully shows the huge gulf between what happened then and what's happening now, that this is aimed at a complete root and branch change in the way that the Iranian regime is functioning, if it continues to function at all.

As far as the regime itself is concerned, I mean, obviously, it's a huge blow practically and symbolically.

But I mean, it has to be taken into account that Khamenei wasn't a dictator as such.

He was the main authority.