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consult, _ israel, giving a bit of time to consult, maybe to telegraph some — consult, maybe to telegraph some signals as well, maybe we'll— some signals as well, maybe well tell— some signals as well, maybe we'll tell the iranians that israel— we'll tell the iranians that israel is _ we'll tell the iranians that israel is not interested in expanding the conflict or escalating. expanding the conflict or escalating-— expanding the conflict or escalating. expanding the conflict or escalatinr. ~., ~' ., escalating. mark kimmitt and michael singh, _ escalating. mark kimmitt and michael singh, stay _ escalating. mark kimmitt and michael singh, stay where . escalating. mark kimmitt and | michael singh, stay where you are. i want to bring our viewers who arejoining are. i want to bring our viewers who are joining us up—to—date on the breaking news. this is what we know at this hour, so to remark us officials are telling cbs news, our us news partner, that an israeli missile has hit iran, this taking place in the last hour or so. you see on the map where the explosion was, this was in the north—west of iran in the city of isfahan early friday morning, it's all coming according to the country's semi—official newsagency, you see that the distance between the capital tehran. we are hearing from you running nvidia saying it occurred near the city's international airport, with do not get an explanation or possible cause. israeli army officials have yet to comment.
manufacturing? they decided not to. did they decide to come here where the where a lot of the oil fields are, even though throughout the country. predominantly here. they decided not. to say instead they go to isfahan province. it's got a nuclear base and military program. we are waiting for the first shots. they hit in between intentionally. saying, essentially, by their methods, by their actions it could have been a lot worse. know how fast we got in there also important to point out these are called strikes, not airstrikes. airstrikes indicate this is coming from an fighter jet. these are drones or cruise missiles. take a look at the last one as we go forward. and this talks about the distance between and this talks about where can you go inside there. so the feeling is on both sides as they travel this distance and hit inside iran, almost one week to the day in which they hit inside israel for the first
retaliatory strike against iran overnight while you were sleeping. so far, zero comment from the israelis. we're awaiting live remarks from secretary of state anthony blinken very shortly. the strike was inside of a major iranian military air base that contains facilities associated with their nuclear program. but we know iran's nuclear facilities apparently not impacted. they did not hit them. >> ainsley: we have not received an official statement from the biden administration. but a source says the u.s. was not notified before the strike and was not involved. >> lawrence: jeff paul is on the ground in tel aviv, israel and retired tony tata has excellent analysis. first, brian is breaking down exactly where this happened. brian, what can you tell us? >> right now you take a look at israel right near here. and you take a look at iran over here. a long distance to travel. thousands of miles where they wanted to hit. did they want to go tehran where there's a lot of drone
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to state conflict, an overt conflict launching missiles, drones or other long range standoff weapons from one country's territory into another, just for the moment, seems have been foreign policy. >> what do you get a sense of, benjamin, in terms of the us pressure on israel for what president biden was restraint in its response? do you believe that that played a significant role in shaping what israel did the last few hours? i certainly think even in the lead up to this strike, israeli national security officials, decision makers and even military folks had to seriously consider the degree to which they strike something more overt, something wider, something that would have killed more individuals, would have put distance daylight between. israel and america, which as we just saw, was a critical partner in defending the jewish state and also keeping them together towards know, pushing
entire area. they're walking away, gloves are being put on a barricade around his body. they look being down the person, the smoke continues to below as also the lingering elements of a flame coming from his body. they're contending another time to remove plan in the area as now, we have multiple at least three different fire extinguishers are attempting to put out the flames sun this person's body, it seems a very end of the claims are now gone as barricades around the person. i see no bodily movements from the ground, no movement from a human being on the ground. officers walking away. in distance. i can hear an ambulance coming down and wipe pd is on the scene. >> they're looking at the scene i'm trying to figure out what to do next. >> they are on golf and ms person around as evan perez are right here on the scene, i can smell smoke whatever is that he the first one put on themselves to burn is clearly the big smell that you work without. >> we're getting right now. there was a point where i saw
assets we're trying to shoot down whatever object was coming toward them. so there are several theories as to what those objects actually were. there's a lot of reporting about drones possibly being used by the israelis. and that indicates that the ukrainians at least saw something on their radars that they were going to use to go after before get intended targets in iran. >> what about the logistics? if it was drones about how, how would they travel? how would that work? so that's a really great question because the distance instead, you have from israel all the way to iran is depending on how you fly is somewhere between 800 to 1,000 miles. >> and there's no way that a drilling like a velociraptor drone, the ones that you can buy in a hobby store can make it all the way without, without crashing so what probably happened there if it was that kind of a drop? own is that they were launched either in iran itself or possibly in iraq, depending on exactly what
know. the israelis have a pretty strong arsenal of what are called standoff weapons. things that they can fire from a long distance to carry out a strike. what we have not been able to get any fidelity on is whether the israelis carried out strikes in other locations, including iraq and syria. you will remember after the strikes that iran carried out against israel last weekend, the israelis briefed the u.s. on possible response options. they sort of ran the gamut, everything from no response to some massive strikes inside of iran. what we saw last night would meet the sort of more limited response options, according to u.s. officials familiar with the israeli responses. again, we are not hearing that officially here from the pentagon. i don't expect to hear anything really on the record or on
which is about 120 kilometers, about 70 miles away from isfahan. and that is actually really the key enrichment when facility. so both of them are key to the iranian nuclear program. the fact that the israelis did not hit either one of them indicates that they had the distance and the capability of hitting them, but they chose not to and that is a message and of itself isn't it? it is absolutely. and that fact that they didn't hit them was a message to the uranium said, we can do this, but we're not going to do it this time. we know that your air defense system sims are vulnerable to us. we know that we can in essence go anywhere within iran and destroy the things that we think we need to destroy. but the key thing is this. we can do do this at a time and place of our own choosing. and you cannot stop us. >> and so here we are now. we just heard from nic robertson who categorized it as ambiguity, not escalation and obviously the world, the us very invested in this, not spilling out to a broader conflict, not escalating in that region where do you think
heard before blinken from the italian foreign minister was that it was quite a last minute heads-up and the italian foreign minister was in meetings all day with blinken. so he might have been in a position to know that that's interesting because of course, american officials throughout the course of the last week had been in touch with their counterparts, talking about american commitment to israel's defense and so i think this decision to remain fairly silent on this overnight strike is somewhat telling the us doesn't want to give a run any sort of pretense to claim that this was a us decision. certainly american troops in the region have been targets of iranian proxy groups. and there's no desire to put them in harm's way. and i think this decision, certainly by the white house, not to say anything about this strike overnight really lends to that sense that the us is trying to put some distance here. i was