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that iranian state media of explosions around isfahan. it's not a coordinated message, referring to my previous answer, we haven't heard from iran yet. it's still early. there's this message, that they will carry out a revenge attack, that is what we heard following april 1st in damascus. who knows? the day is young, we will see what they have to say, but i think their language will tell us everything we need to know. >> thank you. let's remind you how this attention began and show you this timeline. april 1st, israel struck the iranian consulate in syria with seven military advisers including three senior commanders, killed. saturday, i ran fired 170 drones , and hundred and 20 ballistic missiles.
point. >> correct. i agree. it's important to know that iran and israel have been engaged in a shadow war for years, we before october 7th, but the attack on the consulate in syria was seen as iran crossing a redline in the parameters of that shadow war, thinking they will establish deterrence and re-establish the redlines. in the past few months, we've seen the moving of the redline and this is another episode with israel retaliating, trying to establish a deterrence, trying to re-establish the redline but at the same time, gambling or risking retaliation. the ball is in iran's court and we have
targeted american forces in the middle east. >> we will let you go back to your reporting we appreciate it we will get back to her the top of the hour as the news warrants thank you we have been talking here with aaron cohen we want to bring in a rabbi from bel air to give us some context about this but you first what you're hearing from the war correspondents and so forth it's concerning right now because it appears that while iran's war cabinet for back of a better turn is in their consulate is talking about this right now there seems to be action in the northern part of israel coming from lebanon and hezbollah and at least, at the very least, some kind of drone probes going on. >> this is the mo of the irg c. they will gas up all their proxies and first of all israel has been dealing with hezbollah offer like 20 years they were in southern lebanon for plenty of years back the nineties and ended up pulling out hezbollah has always been a constant
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 occurring here is essentially back channeling so that iran gets the message here that this should really be over at this point. we should note that we do have a regional intelligence source telling our colleague, nic robertson that in fact iran does not plan to retaliate further, and that this for tat for now at least appears to be over all right, natasha bertrand at the pentagon for us. thank you very much. it's 48 minutes past the hour right now. here's your morning roundup. a maryland high school student allegedly
the americans wanted to be taught. before the attack on the consulate in damascus, they didn't have time. in that particular region, though, in terms of the housekeeping in the framework for this attack, it was tidy, from an american point of view. the trouble, from an american point of view, is israel. benjamin netanyahu. what does he do next? once again, he has demonstrated he will act with autonomy and in israel's interest as he sees it, not according to the interest of joe biden. that's a challenge and clearly the main challenge right now is iran.
one we saw it was on the consulate, killing top generals, but they've been hitting weapons, through the crescent from tehran to paramilitary groups and proxies. they've also been killing scientists, trying to arrest the nuclear program, but of course, it burst into the open and we saw direct confrontation between the two. the language that is being used as that's the consulate with a redline that got overstepped and that had gone too far and you saw a direct attack and now, we have the response from israel. if it is what we think it is, a limited strike, i think it's mainly not about causing disruption or damage, it's an expression of force, that's the
the region that if not now, but at some 0.1 retaliation goes too far and that long feared regional war actually does happen indeed, the chance for error miscalculation, catastrophic success, even as always on the horizon. it's going to defend i think looking forward as to how iran decides to respond to this latest israeli attack. so from the iranian perspective israel began this latest drown by striking its consulate in damascus. iran responded and attend and attempted ready to draw a line under that, but for them, again, it's a question of how do you respond to this latest attack. so either iran brushes it off and suggests that this was a failed attack that iran intercepted many of the incoming missile strikes. and this would be supported by some of the footage and the way iranian state media has been reporting about this clearly trying to downplay it or iran could perceive this as a yet
against iran within days. that's after iran wants a barrage of missiles on israel last weekend for the first time, directly from a runny territory that came after a suspected israeli attack on an iranian consulate in syria well, i've now to beirut and mahayana, av director of the ag middle east center. thank you for being with us. >> good morning, john. thank you for having me. >> i'm wondering if you'd tell us here that the israelis, they made it clear there would be a military response. but did you expect it to be one that was gonna be limited and targeted like this? >> it wasn't, clear what they were going to do, but it was clear that there was tremendous pressure on israel not to escalate things further. let's remember that this began with an israeli strike against the rami and consulate in damascus yes iran strike for all light and light show did not really cause any kind of significant damage. it was more a lot more
iranian consulate in damascus, a building that is protected, that was a new red line in terms of the actions israel is willing to take against iran, which clearly poses a huge threat to israel and iran has crossed the red line by striking directly at israel, and israel has crossed another redline by striking back at iran. with those lines crossed, it means that should tensions flare again, it could quickly escalate into direct confrontation in a much greater degree than perhaps it had been in the past. >> we are hearing reports that antony blinken, u.s. secretary of state holy briefly -- will hold a briefing at the g7 summit.
himself up at the iranian consulate has been arrested. he was seen four hours again carrying what looked like explosive vest. we don't know if the claims are true. more on this in moments. let's move to the middle east. also on this hour from overnight israel has been on offense. the jewish state striking iran. is this the end of it or are we still in the beginning of a new stage of conflict and what would that conflict look like? wow. good morning. a busy friday already. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: we're shot out of a cannon this morning. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." great to be with you. somewhere we know at this hour. a military source saying the strikes were limited in scope. one of the tehran's nuclear facility is located. fox confirms it was neither nuclear or civilian. >> you have the anti-israeli