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airport. —— isfahan. iran reports that flights to tehran, isfahan and shiraz and airports in the west, northwest and southwest have been suspended. an iranian source tells reuters that its air defence system has been activated in the region. it was activated against, quote, "an object suspected to be a drone". in newsagency telling officials there had been three explosions heard near an army base in the city's north—west so we are getting more details coming in and we will continue to update the story as we get it. joining me live is mark kimmitt, former us assistant secretary of state for political—military affairs. it's great to have you on tonight with us as we get these details about a potential what we believe to be an israeli missile strike on iran. as you are hearing these reports coming in, what details stand
suspicious object. so is this deliberately done by israel to give iran that ability to deny that any successful attack was carried out? >> good to be with you jonathan. i think what is interesting about this and i agree with jennifer, we will have to wait until tomorrow to get... the maps that you are showing, if you look between israel and iran as a whole bunch of airspace that whatever this one or multiple mystery object that went to isfahan, the space they travelled over, that would've had to have gone over jordan, over saudi arabia, overall rock, over countries that previously would not have granted israel that kind of airspace flexibility. what you are seeing here is a remarkable shift in the region toward supporting israel against
i'm allowed explosion could be heard near the city of isfahan& central part of the country. they say it was caused by quote, air defense firing at a suspicious object is unclear at this point what that object was, but and iranian military official reportedly said there was no damage from the strike now earlier, iran's fars news agency said the explosions were heard near an army base and it's for province, where fighter jets are located that caused flights to be suspended at several iranian airports. >> but we're hearing tehran's two major airports have since reopen let's go now to beirut, where cnn's paula hancocks is and paula there's been enormous concern in the region about an expansion of the war that's already been going on for for some months. >> in gaza. we've had these strikes traded between israel and iran. now, what is the level of fear there now that this is apparent, israeli strike retaliation once again
>> joe petrino, former centcom spokesman, a pleasure to have you with us. thank you for being with us, sir. this early friday morning. so here's where we stand as we approach 4 a.m. on the east coast, 11 a.m. in israel, 1130 friday morning in tehran, israel has struck at iran. iran says it has defended successfully against that its air defense systems iran says took down they described as a suspicious object significantly. and a senior iranian official is now telling reuters that there are no for immediate retaliation. so we seem to have stopped the escalation for the moment. but stay with fox news for continuing coverage. "fox and friends" up next with todd and colleagues, i'm sorry went off.
of iran's air defense assets to respond and detect where they are. let's not forget, most of iran's air defense assets are old model and the third and perhaps most important, is escalation control to get the iranians to not escalate. >> right. >> ben and ben taylor, blue. great to have you with us. you're to be with us the next couple of hours. so we're going to treat this as the ben and ben blue appetizer. we'll be back for the main course when we have more time at the top of the hour. so where we stand right now is israel has attacked iran. iran says it has beaten back that attack its air defenses, effectively taking down what the iranians say was a suspicious object. so we will sort the truth and we'll tell you what we know, will admit what we're not sure of as we continue on coverage of dramatic events in the middle east. back at the top of the hour.
—— isfahan. iran reports that flights to tehran, isfahan and shiraz and airports in the west, northwest and southwest have been suspended. an iranian source tells reuters that its air defence system has been activated in the region. it was activated against, quote, "an object suspected to be a drone". in newsagency telling officials there had been three explosions heard near an army base in the city's north—west so we are getting more details coming in and we will continue to update the story as we get it. joining me live is mark kimmitt, former us assistant secretary of state for political—military affairs. it's great to have you on tonight with us as we get these details about a potential what we believe to be an israeli missile strike on iran. as you are hearing these reports coming in, what details stand
agency in iran. they're saying that three explosions were heard near an army base where fighter jets are located. that is to the northwest of that city of s font. you can see right there on the map in the western central part of iran air defenses were activated, and that is important to note because that does indicate that there was something coming at iran from the sky, perhaps an obvious point, but we could but have also been talking tonight about a cyber attack a special forces more covert attack. but what appears to have happened is israel firing at iran. it could have been drones, it could be missiles, it could be with israeli fighter jets, but those defenses were activated in response and this again, this is according to this iranian news agency to an object that is likely to be a drone. so it is believed that one of the targets may have been an army radar and that several office buildings lost their windows in that area, but
escalating this into something quite foreboding? aaron david miller talking _ quite foreboding? aaron david miller talking there. _ quite foreboding? aaron david miller talking there. to - quite foreboding? aaron david miller talking there. to bring l miller talking there. to bring you news are dropping on the wires here from reuters, they are quoting the running state media saying iran's senior commander says noise was heard in isfahan mark overnight and it was caused by a defence targeting one suspicious object. it also reported that there was no damage caused by there was no damage caused by the same in senior commander. we do know from two us officials that were talking to cbs that satan is really missile struck you run and that was in the past few hours. —— and is really missile. talk to editor—in—chief of the independent persian. i hope i got your pronunciation of your name correct. what is your reaction to the evidence overnight?— reaction to the evidence overnight? reaction to the evidence overniuht? ,., ., ., ., reaction to the evidence overniuht? ., ., i. overnight? good morning to you and our overnight? good morning to you and your viewers. _ overnight? good morning to you and your viewers. still _ overnight? good morning to you and your viewers. still we - overnight? good morning to you and your viewers. still we are i and your viewers. still we are hearing from the iranian side
and war. i guess both of them hit each other back in the same kind of delivery and they are not equal, they don't have anything to want to get to another type of war engagement. camelia, thank you for your reaction to what just camelia, thank you for your reaction to whatjust happened. we appreciate it. i want to bring mohmed taha back. we have reports that no damage was caused in the overnight attack. that's according to a senior commander of the iranian army. he said on friday according to state tv, adding the noise overnight in isfahan was due to air defence systems targeting a suspicious object so that in mind the narrative you've been hearing on iranian state tv in the past few hours.— hearing on iranian state tv in the past few hours. indeed, the iranians are _ the past few hours. indeed, the iranians are saying _ the past few hours. indeed, the iranians are saying that - the past few hours. indeed, the iranians are saying that there i iranians are saying that there are objects that came to the airspace to isfahan, the iranian air defences managed to deal with these objects and the
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