this the planning stages? do you need more than a few hours if you are planning to respond? it depends. i m not an expert on iran s capabilities i would lean into they have significantly expended i great deal of resources with that first wave of attacks against israel with the 350 plus missiles and suicide drone attacks we ve been talking about this for a couple of days now so iran is going to move some pieces into play. to understand the iranians, they think they are thoughtful and they are strategic think that they are going to continue to try and put something together as far as their response. it is now three seconds until the top of the hour. it is now 11:00 o clock on the east coast, 8:00 here in los angeles. this is a special breaking news
the explosions in iranian territory are being downplayed by state media up your conveyor saying there was no success to what took place, what appeared to be israeli strikes inside iranian territory. this gives the iranians the opportunity to exit this tit for tat with israel. it s also important to note that they have strategic patients across the region. this may just be an initial pressure point for iran in an initial response by the israelis to that drone and missile attack last weekend. as far as we know, the main airport and tehran remains closed at this hour. it is likely to open again this morning following the limited closure of the airspace across iran. the iranians will meet today with their top military officials and determine if there will be any sort of response. and state media will give the
world respond. great reporting is always. thank you. let s bring in former u.s. army special forces. derek anderson. i want your initial thoughts. we are looking at this new video coming in. these are explosions over the southern part of iran. they are claiming that they knocked down this drone or these drones that israel sent in, their way of possibly can t claiming victory, we don t know. we don t know how much damage was done. we do not believe that the nuclear facility was hit. we don t really have a lot of information except that israel appears to have retaliated and iran is claiming that it knocked that retaliation down. what do you believe is going on? you have to really understand this is no surprise. we saw prime minister prime minister netanyahu make statements over the past days
because we have now we told you the iranian officials as the explosion heard over isfahan was a result of the activation of the air defence system and now you have iranian state tv saying air defences destroyed three drones above isfahan. they are confirming their in fact was an attack and they are saying that was our stuff. they can t even together get their message on the same page here. one thing is for sure, the first report is always wrong. in any combat operation. i think that s what we re seeing play play out here in realtime. there is a lack of information and everybody is trying to get the best information possible. with the information warfare game going on we can trust that iran is not going to be truthful about this. i think we need a way on the israeli battle damage assessment that they release and anything that the administration here in
years to the tune of 35 billion per year. it is unclear exactly how the sanctions factor into all of this. we will be hearing i think from the white house tomorrow with respect to not only these actions but also the comments from the iranian foreign minister tonight. live for us on the white house. we will get back to you if you find new information. let s bring in daniel davis. colonel it s great to have you on the show. i got this notice, it says iranian official tells reuters there was no missile attack on iran. we have confirmed there was an attempt clearly. there is now you ve got this kind of back-and-forth between the news agencies and the politicians kind of saying what they want to say which is natural, happens all the time.