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Exploding, but actually their defense systems. and there were similar reports in at least one other town in iran. and local media in iran at the moment have been carried terrorizing these drones that the iranian state media were talking about a quadcopter. so really playing them down and minimizing what may or may not have happened. again, we dont have independent verification on this of what happened on the ground. we havent seen satellite imagery of what happened on the ground and we dont have...

Blinken. of course, to reiterate that the us does not want to see an escalation in the region. something of course, that diplomatically they have been trying to achieve over the last seven days, over the last ten days really since iran started striking, israel after we saw, of course, israel initially strike that but building in damascus that iran said belonged to was actually a consulate. and so what we expect to hear is, of course, a plea for calm on all sides behind the scenes. what is likely...

Not stage are retaliation. >> take the win from the fact that 99% of the iranian attack was foiled on saturday night, but that wasnt good enough for the israeli war cabinet because this was an unprecedented direct attack. gotten israel from iran. so they felt compelled to show that israel in turn, could strike against iran as we just heard of course the, it looks like the israeli attack is getting through, whereas the urania tag did not get through last saturday. but this is as everybody has bee...

There are two major questions that the president will look to his national security team for one is to intelligence okay. the israelis have attacked apparently attacked or ron how will the iranians retaliate? and secondary, thats a question for the intelligence community and then from a policy perspective, we had stated that we would not support an attack by israel against iran well, well we support israel when iran counter retaliates so we could be in for a, for tat that could rapidly get out o...

>> in the region. and it appears does that this response that we saw last night done very quietly without any public comments so far from the israeli government appears to have been that attempt to thread the needle to carry the out an attack on iranian soil without doing so publicly. and without, it seems causing significant casualties what we understand from im a regional intelligence sources that iran is not expected to retaliate any further, basically saying this source saying that the for t...

It is intentional because as weve been talking about over the course of the last six days, israel has been looking for a way to carry out a strike that would send a message that that iranian strike on israel over the weekend was unacceptable that across the red line, and that it needed a necessitated a and response to it. but at the same time, by carrying out this limited strike without the kind of public fanfare that might normally accompany us such a strike. israel is saying very quiet about i...

Iran targeting israel. and so far that hasnt happened. and in fact, a regional source, intelligence source has told us that there is no indication now that that for tat between iran and israel is going to continue suggesting that israel may have achieved the right balance here in terms of sending the message that it felt it needed to send while avoiding further collation here. now, in terms of the united states, what we are hearing from them is a continued focus on, not on what happened overnigh...

Conflict may have been averted at this point, but it all comes down to tehran now, jim, it depends if iran believes that this was a low level enough attack that it doesnt feel it has to respond. jim all right. >> paula hancocks in beirut for us. thank you, paul appreciate it. lets go now to cnn, chief international correspondent nick paton walsh. use live in london with more nick, if you can pick up where apologists left off there, you know, it sounds like theres a lot of hope inside the diploma...

Operation. and of course, president biden in that conversation with netanyahu last week, made very clear that the us would not participate in any offensive action against iran. so now the real question going forward for officials here for president biden is what happens next? does this cause further escalation? this for tat or focus now returned to the war in gaza us officials have made clear that they still have those disagreements with the israelis over humanitarian aid, over a planned ground ...

Looking for response tha wasng could thread the neee here here tt could makelear that this irani attack over t ekend, that thfirst of its kind to target israeli soil unanswered. and so ts sends a message that, that attack was not going to gunanswered, but it also avoids escalating this conflict into all out war between iran and israel. and as of now a regional intelligence source is indicating to us that iran does not intend to respond, but rather that this for tat between israel and iran, for t...