Maya Rodriguez is a National Correspondent, reporting for all E.W. Scripps television stations across the country. She is based in Washington, D.C., but she travels extensively from coast to coast and around the world for stories of interest.
U.S. officials claim they had no advance notice about an early morning airstrike in Iran's capital that killed a top Hamas leader.Speaking in an exclusive interview with Channel News Asia, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. was 'not aware of or involved in' what is being described as an assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
'Haniyeh lived in Qatar, but was in Tehran attending the inauguration of Iran's new President Masoud Pezeshkian, who has accused Israel of carrying out the strike and vowed to retaliate.While Blinken didn't mention how the U.S. might respond to any retaliatory actions from Iran, he said the U.S. remains steadfast on negotiating a cease-fire in Gaza and believes that is the best way to lower tensions in the region.
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