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attack and no particular source. a day after iran hit iran with a retaliatory strike. iran at the moment appears to be down playing the attack and perhaps signaling it's trying to move on. that's abundantly clear when you hear how they're describing israel's strikes. >> it was our powerful air defense firing at a suspicious object, caused no damage or incident at all. the air defense and proud staff are fully prepared to confront every enemy with militia intentions against islamic iran's land or sky. >> while the situation with iran is seemingly deescalating. they're continuing near the seven month today. a house in a southernmost city of rafah killed nine people six of them estimated to be kids and 1.4 palestinians seeking shelter in rafah, the majority
streets protesting for hamas, for hezbollah, america. so i don't think we have any authority to dictate to israel. we should thank israel and i will end with this. i'm so that you mentioned before how targeted israel's attack was with three missiles. israel has no interestl ha in targeting civilians, has no interest in igniting int a regil war, and every interest in peace, the middle east and deep arming the greatest threat to stability, whicho is the mullahs and the islamic regimeis the of iran. >> yeah, and you make a greatt n point, aaron. got me go to you. i was watching along with tracy last night. i thoughs hingt you did a greato had amazing analysis. let me go back to the the military accomplishment as israel sadly forced to go ite alone. i think it's an embarrassing moment for our country i. israel did stand with america after 911. we should have stood with them
any enemy with malicious intentions against islamic iran's land or sky. >> reporter: the situation with iran is de-escalating, the war in gaza continues, nearing its seventh month. hospital authorities in gaza say an israeli airstrike in a house in the southernmost city of raf ah killed nine people. an estimated 1.4 million palestinians seeking shelter there. the majority displaced from other parts of gaza. a city israel said it intends to enter in its next phase of the war. the us has been adamant they don't support any military operation by israeli forces as us officials in the biden administration stress they want to see not only more humanitarian aid being tricked into gaza but they want israel to come up with a plan to shelter innocent civilians during the war. griff: there's more action on
long, the fact that today's political leadership, the regional ones, truly it appears just don't care. this little girl, her father announced that she is breathing on her own and she will make it in the last hour, and heed added, no member of the ezraley government has reached out to us, no minister, no aide. israelis and palestinians, each in their own way feel they are on their own right now. >> yeah. >> you also her increasingly reports of anger at hamas which is ruthless, islamic militia that has ruled gaza and the first victims of them were the gazans. and you hear more and more daring critiques of hamas by gazans who have just about had it. >> we have talked the last fou years, because israelis stood up against things that they thought the government was doing that were unfair, is there some
of the islamic republic is staffed not just with ideologues, but many, many octogenarians like the supreme leader himself. but all of that aside, the messaging is likely to be in these friday prayer sermons, the same defiant tone that you had, the same harping on the themes of the israel-gaza war, the same kind of chest thumping post april 13, april 14, military operation. and given that the iranian media, in the lead up to the friday prayer time, has been trying to spin things as all is normal, all is well, you're likely going to see the islamic public try to, at least in the short term, rhetorically, pocket and move on. but in terms of attacks, well, who knows? >> the irgc may be advocating for behind closed doors because lest we forget, there were also reports that when there was this strike in esfahan that there were explosions in iraq and there were explosions in syria, and that irgc change in doctrine was all about responding threats both inside and outside iranian territory with direct attacks from iran.
i mean i've always said that islamic poppy garan is not ten feet tall. this is not a superpower this is not the united states facing off against the soviet union. we did that with thousands of nuclear missiles aimed at our cities. thank god, right now, ron doesn't have nuclear weapons though they're close. i mean, 60% highly enriched uranium is 97% of what they need to get to 90% enriched uranium. so they're very close and one must take note of that. they are stone's throw from having nuclear weapons. but i think the israelis are now demonstrating that they are willing to go after iran's nuclear weapons program. and they have capabilities that may surprise the range indians and surprise all of us. they've certainly been working on this for many, many years. and i think it's always been said to me by senior israeli officials, if we don't surprise you when we go after those nuclear facilities, then we will fail. so this may be an early demonstration of some new capabilities that israel has. & that the iranians were not aware of. >> thank you so much for your insight. i want to bring back
our missile systems? now they're going around saying, oh, we shut them all down and they're going they're going to play to the people on the street. >> i get it. but in israel made it a fantastic job of just sending a message. a message. i know you shot a lot at us, but we not retaliate close to your home and things that you care about. >> yeah. rabbi, i wonder what you think the reaction on the streets of tehran will be. it's friday in iran, the islamic day of prayer, the day that we have traditionally seen from religious leaders in iran. some very fiery speeches, not just in iran, but all over the region. do you expect we will see that over the next few hours and that we will see thousands of people called out on the streets of iran to say death to israel, death to america, the rent. the crowd of iran will. you must understand everybody,
will find it more about exactly what happened. but i really do actually want to emphasize something that i think has not been discussed enough. and that is how vulnerable iran may be if it's air defenses don't work because it's not just the nuclear sites. it's leadership assets as the headquarters of the islamic revolutionary guard-core. the refineries pipelines, and ports. and so what iran has done is it's ring, they're valuable assets with air defenses if they've just discovered today that they're air defenses don't work that is certainly a degree of vulnerability. they must be given pause to the supreme leader, varanasi khamenei, and he's revolutionary guards, if that's the case, their retaliatory decisions must be informed by that vulnerability and they may, they may be careful, they may, they may decide to downplay it and stand down does that mean that the world would now perhaps view iran as less of a formidable threat in the region if they truly are that vulnerable look
israel point had israel, at that point, gone into those places and taken out that infrastructure and removed those terrorist organizations is not the best example, but that is where we kind of are right now with the iranians. t if we allow this to happen without a response, we are basically saying to them, you got the carte blanche to go ahead and do whatever you want and that is something that th israel cannot afford pixel actually think that the response has a greater chance se of minimizing the scope of in future war. >> but how? what would that look like? if israel had to make this move , what truly happens next in terms of de-escalation to quiet this? >> that is going to be up to the iranians. again, they started this. people tend to keep on going back in time, just at the beginning of april what israel took out an iranian general who was part of the islamic resolution or guard who was the main coordinator of terrorist activities in support of hezbollah and hamas in gaza and