Cup playoffs presented by Guy Called Begin Tomorrow On Tbs Breaking News or is this our multiple breaking stories this hour in the middle east calls for deescalation, right now. Thats after a us official so says israel launched an attack on iran. Overnight explosions were reported about 200 miles south of tehran. And your major Iranian Military airbase. World leaders are now pleading for restraint, hoping to prevent a wider war back here in the, where President Donald Trump returns to court on day four of his Criminal Hush Money Trial of full panel 12 jurors has been selected. Todays order of Business Selective remaining alternate jurors needed so that Opening Statements can begin. Lets begin with the overnight strike in iran, seen as reporters. All around the world to bring you the very latest corresponded Jeremy Diamond has in tel aviv, cnn, chief International Security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh is london and National Security correspondent at the Tasha Bertrand is at the pentag
proxies. hezbollah in lebanon to the north of israel that could be potentially exceptionally damaging for both sides. it may also be something israel doesn t really want at this stage still preoccupied in gaza, potentially talking about the invasion of rafah emily, despite the us wanting a clear humanitarian plan there for that. and on top of that all to the united states, very keen to prevent escalation here, particularly during the forthcoming election campaign, nobody needs a raging conflict expanding in the middle east that drags them in. and so while this region jim is phenomenally unpredictable and we got to this point through miscalculation by israel and iran i think it s fair to say what we saw last night was a calibrated israeli response. and iran now the great benefit of being autocracy, they get to basically dictate what people believe has occurred or put the information out there as they choose their saying, not much happened here. let s move on. israel gets say they retali