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with ballistic missiles. the attack on israel last weekend included hundreds of missiles and drones, and many of them actually made it into israeli airspace. some were intercepted overhead. others landed on israeli soil. and so it was a significant attack that the middle east has not seen. and so the biden administration had a heavy task to try to rein in the israelis, to say, look, don't drag the middle east into a broader war and in a very uncomfortable truth about that relationship is that the biden administration has made very clear to prime minister netanyahu that u.s. support will be conditional and it will not just be conditional based on israel's actions inside gaza, but across the region, because the united states understands that they could get dragged into a broader war if one does erupt. >> and so there were certainly concessions made behind the scenes as it relates to the war in gaza. israel's main focus for the past nearly 200 days and six months into that conflict, israel still
through syria, then threw a rock and either firing from a rocky airspace or ben crossing into iranian airspace and carrying out those strikes. one more thing in terms of that limited scope, laura i was also told that it was not expected that civilian targets or nuclear targets would be among the strikes that israel was carrying out. and that is very, very important to note because of course, for years israel has said that iran has every intention of building a nuclear weapon and it has targeted indeed and other ways and more covert ways around nuclear program isfahan, this city where we are now seeing explosions reported by iranian news media that does have a significant nuclear facility. but i'm told well by two different american officials that it is not expected that israel has gone after nuclear facilities inside iran. now this laura is from ron's fars news agency, a semi official
have been pushing advanced programs and studies specifically when it comes to uranium enrichment it to get the country closer to a nuclear weapon also at this hour iran state media reporting that the tehran international airport is closed for the next several hours as we told you earlier at this hour there were a number of civilian aircraft coming from the gulf inside of iranian airspace when these strikes began they made you turns and headed back toward the gulf understanding this is an incredibly unpredictable situation if these reports from the iran state media are accurate of air defence systems activated across the territory they certainly don't want any cilia aircraft in this airspace it is of note here that while these are likely strikes carried out by israelis we have not yet received independent confirmation that the states was alerted ahead of time that we can use the response from the israelis just last weekend as a point of reference in all of this because we saw for the
essentially in the whole of the west of the country which is the direction of course, that israeli fighter jets would come in if they were flying from israel towards iran, bird with heard from the iranian saying that actually no aircraft came into their airspace and what they're reporting about, what happened around s for khan there were three drones in that area that one point the reports were that one of them had come down near an army base perhaps blown out some windows of some offices. there were reports that it could have been a radar base but iranian state media is now characterizing this the sounds of explosions that people reported that they've heard as actually the air defense systems firing off a suspicious objects. so the iranian state media ria is playing this as not the sound of drones or missiles impact in
public comment that we have had from any senior u.s. official, and he was speaking at an event in dallas, the george w. bush presidential center. at first he her referred to iran's attack over the weekend as a spectacular failure. he said it spoke to the high quality of the israeli military, but also to the fact that israel has a lot of friends. we know, of course, the role of u.s. and some of our other regional allies played in deterring, and making sure that those attacks were not successful in getting into an israeli airspace. but it also was notable that he said, we know at this moment that israel is considering how to respond, and the bright hope within the administration is that there is a moment to de- escalate the situation. the message from the white house, from the president directly to prime minister, benjamin netanyahu over the weekend was take the win. you have shown your strength here in this moment and not risk any further escalation. you could look at what israel has potentially done here tonight as a moment, where iran's attack, to quote bill
of sirens anywhere else in israel at the moment we are beginning to get a few more details of the strikes or these explosions, at least as far that we know about now in s4 khan, northwest service for khan is what the fars news agency in iran's semi-official news agency, there is reporting. so we are beginning to build up a slow picture and i think a couple of other details to bring into the picture that we've been tracking over the past few hours flight radar tracking of flights in the skies above iran have indicated within the past hour or so, flights have been changing their flight path to avoid iranian airspace we'll aware that in the last half, an hour or so a no tamar know flay declaration has been made for the west of iran, which would be the side of iran that if there were israeli fighter jets
suspicious object. so is this deliberately done by israel to give iran that ability to deny that any successful attack was carried out? >> good to be with you jonathan. i think what is interesting about this and i agree with jennifer, we will have to wait until tomorrow to get... the maps that you are showing, if you look between israel and iran as a whole bunch of airspace that whatever this one or multiple mystery object that went to isfahan, the space they travelled over, that would've had to have gone over jordan, over saudi arabia, overall rock, over countries that previously would not have granted israel that kind of airspace flexibility. what you are seeing here is a remarkable shift in the region toward supporting israel against
a tremendous attack capability of their own, after strike fighters, that can, without question, penetrate iranian airspace and go after strategic targets. the two hammers are out. tw the question is, what will the iranian student! one can only hope the biden admin, sector blinken, and others, they will be on the phone wanting to back off what looks like an impending major escalation of the war, which will devastate iran and possibly draw in other belligerents at the same time. >> hi how if a hurdle is that for secretary blinken to try to do something like that, given the tensions between these two countries? the actions they have taken in the last week, general. >> well, you know, there is no logic to the scale of violence
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
around. >> this from the associated press the dateline here is to buy united arab emirates firing defence batteries and several provinces the state run ir in a a news agency reports without elaborating so iran is apparently trying to either protect itself, it sounds like the assessment here. >> i would say that's probably a very fair assessment iran is going to go to a defensive posture now they will try to up their air defence capabilities to try to take down any of these israeli fighter jets that are coming in these hyper- focused airstrikes and israel is now this is a high-end gun fight is how i look at this when you have two forces and one coming out the other and the other defending and whoever is more aggressive and hits strader will win and israel right now very selective iran probably trying to take out f-15s and 35's israel knows better they will stare out of the iranian airspace as long as they can but