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Anderson Cooper 360

now on the breaking news, we're told that he's row has carried out a strike inside iran where it is now, i am a senior american official says that israel told the us on thursday that it would be retaliating against iran in the coming days. that's of course after iran directly attacked israel for the first time, last weekend, which itself followed a suspected israeli attack on a embassy compound in damascus in syria. it runs fars news agency says three explosions were heard near an army base in isfahan province, where fighter jets are located that us official said that the target is not nuclear although the explosions did happen near a major nuclear facility, cnn asieh, israeli military about all of this and we were told it has no comment to make paula hancocks is standing by in beirut. but first i want to go to cnn's nic robertson in jerusalem, nick, i know you've been working your sources. they

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The Lead With Jake Tapper

israel, which is in keeping with what we saw from a ram, the direct territory to territory attack. so potentially, it wasn't it wasn't too destroy something. we had a us official telling cnn as well that they thought it was possible that israel would try and carry out an attack and make sure they were no casualties but just more fought for show to show that they can re-establish the sense of the text hello, thank you. pull the hancocks life for us in beirut and also nic robertson lifers in jerusalem. this out, thanks to you both could now lot to tehran and abbas has lani, a journalist and senior research fellow at the center for middle east strategic studies. as i think he's being with us thank you, john, for having me. >> it's a pleasure now how i just from your point of view, how's this story being reported then given the government's tight control over the media, is that indicative of where the government actually stands right now in trying to play

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CNN This Morning

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 doesn't feel it has to respond. jim all right. >> paula hancocks in beirut for us. thank you, paul appreciate it. let's 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 there's a lot of hope inside the diplomatic community internationally that perhaps this for tat will not continue. but i guess there are no guarantees that that will happen yeah, absolutely. >> no guarantees, but i'm one of them. >> the benefits of ron has of being an autocracy, being able to control the information released inside its own country. is it going essentially tell everybody what it wants to about what just happened? this may be israel showing in a limited way that it can penetrate iranian air

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Jose Diaz-Balart Reports

based here in lebanon. jose? >> matt bradley in beirut, thank you very much. joining us from tel aviv is miri eisen, managing director of the international institute for counterterrorism and former israeli government spokesperson. always -- i appreciate your time as always. just, first off, i want to get your reaction to what we heard from the second in command in hezbollah. >> it is the second in command and he's always been one of the main spokespeople. he's the one who is willing to meet matt and to sit down and talk about it. i don't think matt would be able to meet the secretary-general. so i'm sitting here in tel aviv, listening to what that number two has to say and, jose, did you hear what he just said? poor iran, iran doesn't want war, iran, jose, is the destabilizer throughout the middle east. iran is the one that arms and brings in all of the capabilities of hezbollah,

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BBC News

the houthis didn't hit anything, according to the pentagon, but i think the expectation of american officials is that the houthis are going to respond to these attacks. hugo, thank you very much for the moment, hugo bachega in beirut. i'm joined now by dr david wearing. he is a lecturer in international relations at the university of sussex. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. can you give us a bit of history? houthis are now the focus of global attention, butjust take us through who they are? they are a paramilitary group with origins in the northern part of yemen, they were at odds with the former central government in yemen but the central government in yemen at that time fought a series of small wars with them and then during the uprisings at around 2010, 2011,

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Americas Newsroom

syria, iraq, yemen and each of these red dots is a pinpoint of a terrorist organization. for, example you know about hamas in gaza, hezbollah in beirut. palestinian islamic jihad in the west bank and various groups in iraq. what iran has, if you look at iran over here, basically they're able to have this land bridge that takes you all the way across with military, equipment, and intelligence. don't forget that. everything they have here leads iran to this capability of grabbing people and letting them know that they are in control with this axis of resistance and their one main goal is to attack the united states and destroy the west. we have our work cut out for us and we'll get more about that. >> bill: thank you, dana. well done over there at the wall. lieutenant general keith kellogg is here, former ambassador to

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CNN News Central

there are a lot of militant groups like the houthis andy gannon who are trying to instigate a broader region war, that's what these terrorist groups want. hamas has been very explicit in this, they want the other terrorist groups in the region to join in. so, what united states is doing with its presence and with the deterrent strikes is saying, that is not going to happen. you act up, you conduct terrorist activities against peaceful international shipping, we are going to hit you back and prevent that from happening again. so, there are people who will say that this is escalation. i think it is exactly the opposite, it is deterrence. it is exactly the message we need to send to these militant groups, to these terrorist in the middle east, that this kind of violence won't stand and we are not going to allow it to instigate a broader regional war. >> to your point about hezbollah, you have israel striking a hamas leader in beirut that has been targeting missiles over the border in

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Verified Live

with the defence minister of israel. he has reiterated the need to do everything possible to minimise harm to civilians in gaza. the territories hamas said 23,000 palestinians have been killed. glen johnson served as an adviser tojohn kerry under baron obama. he told me what washington wanted to achieve. the primary object of is to keep this war from the primary object of is to keep this warfrom spreading. the primary object of is to keep this war from spreading. you've seen israel both take out hamas leader in beirut, and now a hezbollah leader. it is confined action in gaza spread to the northern border and inviting interference from iran. taste to the northern border and inviting interference from iran.— interference from iran. we know antony blinken _ interference from iran. we know antony blinken has _ interference from iran. we know antony blinken has told -

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Verified Live

take out a hamas leader in beirut itself, and now a hezbollah leader in southern lebanon. the big concern for the biden menstruation is having once been a confined to military action in gaza spread to the northern border and also invite in interference from iran. irate northern border and also invite in interference from iran.— northern border and also invite in interference from iran. we know that antony blinken _ interference from iran. we know that antony blinken has _ interference from iran. we know that antony blinken has told _ interference from iran. we know that antony blinken has told israel's i antony blinken has told israel's prime minister to avoid further civilian harm in gaza — what does it tell you three months into this war, that he's having to repeat again that he's having to repeat again that really basic message? i mean, it seaks that really basic message? i mean, it speaks a — that really basic message? i mean, it speaks a little _ that really basic message? i mean, it speaks a little bit _ that really basic message? i mean, it speaks a little bit to _ that really basic message? i mean, it speaks a little bit to the - that really basic message? i mean, it speaks a little bit to the nature . it speaks a little bit to the nature of the israeli prime minister. i mean, he's a bulldog, he's a former soldier, he had a brother who was lost in a hostage rescue mission. so he is very focused on securing israel's border and the safety of its citizens. in the administration agrees with that, of course, to a

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Early Start With Kasie Hunt

year. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. secretary of state antony blinken arrives in saudi arabia in just a few hours to meet with the crown prince after a stop in the uae. it's his fourth visit since the aattacks. he sat down senior qatar officials and at a joint news conference, the prime minister said the killing of a senior hamas leader in beirut last week could effect the fragile negotiations. melissa bell joins us from paris. secretary blinken heads to israel later today as well. what's your sense of these complicated hostage talks? >> the bombing since the conflict, the distinct ratcheting up of tensions.

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