just as plans were being put in place to potentially sort that conflict out with a peace deal. you see this sort of regional destabilization happening. incredibly important at this point. very complex situation and we may be seeing just the beginning of the response there as we saw that fire bombing in tehran. becky anderson, thank you so much. we will continue to speak with you throughout the morning. one of our cnn producers was actually at the saudi embassy in tehran last night and he was actually reporting as those protests, those fiery protests were under way. right now he is joining us on the phone. shirzad, what was it like last night? reporter: actually, when i got there, it was practically over, but there was still smoke coming out of the embassy and there were several fire engines and firemen coming in and out of
cnn producer shirzad, thank you. we will continue to check in all morning for updates. let s stay in iran for a moment. i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst bobby gosh and lieutenant general mark hertling. bobby, tell us about the tone and response we are seeing from iran s leaders. we are hearing from president ro rouhani calling legal acts done by extremists and we are hearing from the ayatollah a much harsher tone. tell us what is happening here? this is the traditional dwight in iran you have president and foreign minister, although we haven t heard from him this morning, who take what we would regard as a line, and
released from a prison there, but we re also hearing they re still in the prison. our sources in iran say they don t actually know if they left evin prison yet. imany official a a ay officials make sure they are free. released a statement by press tv that their detention sentence has been commuted and they have been released on bail, a lot of speculation is once they are released, they will head to iman. . the reason there is that speculation is it played a part in securing the release of sarah shourd, the third american hiker who was released last september. om omani government officials aren t confirming this. they did go into the prison earlier today and we re awaiting word when and if they will leave the country and in fact, they will be headed to muscat, oman. if you wanted to look at the politics behind all that and look at the relationship between oman and the u.s. mohammed, are you still connected with me? all right, we ve lost connection with jamjoom, apologize for