speaker to pack it up. that's coming up. and in the meantime, to tel aviv and how they're responding to this. and that's in iran and might have escalated, and jeff with more in tel aviv. >> so far the period of calm between iran and israel appears to be holding for now, but tensions throughout the middle east region are very much still elevated and what happened just last night underscores that perfectly. this was in iraq. it was being described as an explosion on a base in central iraq utilized by a coalition of iran-allied militias. one person was killed and another eight were injured. u.s. military official tells fox news it had no involvement, the coalition of militias, saying the explosion was an attack and didn't blame any particular source. the blast happened a day after israel hit iran with a