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Hour. we have what we are being told was an israeli attack on iranian territory in the province of esfahan. we are told by iranian officials saying they defeated the attack, that their air defense systems worked perfectly and that they have not suffered any damage. were also hearing from our own jennifer griffin at the pentagon that u.s. sources are saying this was deliberately a limited, careful retaliation by israel for the attack on israel by those hundreds of iranian drones and missiles over...

Scope and the understanding from the us was that that would not include civilian or nuclear facilities. so were talking about s for khan. were talking about the nuclear facility that is that is there and im being told now by a us official that theyre understanding from israeli officials was that they would not go after any nuclear nuclear facilities, inner counter our again, we do not know that the explosions happened near their or at that facility and we again, dont know whether israel carried ...

Was able, able to intercept the missiles, the drones that was suggesting why some were suggesting two prime minister benjamin and yahoo to quote unquote, take the win. what does it say that iran could not defend against this attack? >> well, for one thing, iran does not have anything similar to the iron dome. so its clear defenses are fairly antiquated in comparison to the israeli earned offenses. theyre not an effective, but they are not as effective as the israeli air defense system, which is ...

Aircraft or missiles that were possibly launched from that location on the attack was it again to go after air defense systems that they want to take out now, that will help them in the future. so again, i think it just shows that from a deterrence perspective its back on the balls, back on the side of israel. they have much more military capability so we dont know. >> im talking about the actual areas, whether it was a miss or a message that was being sent as our earlier reporting talks about t...

The message from israel is simply point out that they have the capability to do this. its not just iran that can fire hundreds of miles and hit israel. israel has the capability to do that exact same thing right back to iran and isfahan is an interesting choice there because of the nuclear facilities, at least in the initial reports, it doesnt seem like thats what israel was going after in this strike. but its a clear message to iran that if this escalation continues and gets out of control, it ...

Agency in iran. theyre saying that three explosions were heard near an army base where fighter jets are located. that is to the northwest of that city of s font. you can see right there on the map in the western central part of iran air defenses were activated, and that is important to note because that does indicate that there was something coming at iran from the sky, perhaps an obvious point, but we could but have also been talking tonight about a cyber attack a special forces more covert att...

Us wanted to happen because of course, all the uncertainty of what happens next. right thats absolutely right. >> laura, i think to some extent they knew it was inevitable and inevitability& and speaking with top us officials throughout the course of the week, they did speak about it as a question of when how, and what this would look like. not a question of if, of course they were holding out hope that it would not come to this and that in the words of the administration and numerous administra...

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Israel as highly problematic, destabilising. the first time we had seen a direct attack like that. now we see israel possibly back into iran. that itself is a dynamic they are concerned about. as is the fact that there are many other elements to this, many other pieces of the jigsaw in the middle east, the groups funded by iran, which it provides with weapons, in lebanon, in yemen, and all of that adds to a very complicated picture which makes an unstable dynamic, so there may be an unstable dyn...

Israel had promised to respond to saturday nights drone and missile attack by iran. both nbc and cnn have reported unnamed officials saying that israel had warned washington, but that washington had not endorsed the action. the president of the european commission has called for de—escalation. here she is. we commission has called for de-escalation. here she is. we have to do everything _ de-escalation. here she is. we have to do everything possible, _ de-escalation. here she is. we have to do...