Victory of gloucester, 46 24. a moment for tom parton to remember, scoring the quickest hat trick in the premiership. in the united rugby championship, dragons dismal away record continues after a 36 19 defeat in treviso against benneton. the win consolidated benneton s hopes of a play off place in the urc, after their six tries secured victory and a bonus point. italy captain michele lamaro completed the benetton scoring. dragons haven t won on the road since january 2023. elsewhere, leaders leinster were beaten by lions in south africa, bringing to an end their eight match winning streak. they remain top despite that loss. all the other results on your screen at the moment, as you can see. no score between connacht and a zebra.
Either side knows how this might end director clapper continue to stand by for us. major mike lyons is with us as well. major lions. your reaction to the fact, according to alex the sources that there were non nuclear targets who that may have been the receiving end of israeli bombs here in the region well, they had to be followed up with intel and they had to be important targets. so what again, general mark said in for why they tacked them. well, what was their reasoning behind them? again, it s just too close to that facility. in order to think that they wouldn t have to send a signal that they could go and get it. but air defense platforms, there s other difference platforms i could have attacked along that border. they could have been republican garden force, they could ve been other military units that the israelis thought was high-value targets and it s an opportunity to go after them, but didn t get in most cases, they would have to take out multiple air defense platforms along the way along that axis of attack. if they re especially going to put their own pilots in harm s way in order to conduct this kind of
Hezbollah. but they have not responded to this directly at this point and to be honest, i don t think we expect them to necessarily interject themselves into this direct retaliation between israel and iran. of course, we could see more of the proxies stepping up in the days to come and taking on the fight once again against israel, jump handcuffs in beirut nic robertson in jerusalem. thanks to you both for that. we appreciate the reporting and join his our the lions, cnn s chief international anchor, christiane amanpour. christiane, thank you for being with us. just your assessment right now of whether stands john, this is pretty much what we expected vince has been telegraphed for awhile ever since april 1st when the first israeli attacks. well in this round took place on the iranian facility. and from then, we have heard from the iranians that they would respond. they have talked about being proportionate and very interestingly, in their comments to cnn, but foreign
That we have been hearing over recent days from deir on that if israel goes after its assets then the response would be more significant coming the other way, abby paula hancocks. thank you. in standby for us as well here to give us some more context about this area, the geography of what we re looking at here in iran as retired army major mike lyons, major lions tell us a little bit more about isfahan. that is both a problem happens and a major city in iran. what do we know? so if you look at the way nuclear weapons are made, their mind than they re converted and then they re rich, right? we also often khaimah, that city contains is a facility that converts, converts uranium ore into yellowcake and eventually that gets religious gets enriched and then becomes a nuclear weapon. so the why i think that could possibly be a target going back to what general mark said is because they israel wants to show iran that it has the capability to reach out and get to that facility. now, we don t know if that s specific facility was