around the country tonight their language has been very clear, on bolden would indicate that they re not going to shy away from responding. but but it will be and it appears to be as if the ball is shifting to their court. it was in israel s and it shifted back to there s luck. thank you for all of that. please stand by for us. we do have to continue to emphasize that at this moment there is very little information that we know about what is happening inside of iran. iran is not a place where there s a lot of information that comes out, but we do know according to some semi official news sources inside of a rhonda, some explosions have been heard near the city of isfahan that is in the central western part of iran, south of tehran, as well i want to bring in now former dni director of national intelligence, james clapper director clapper, this is a very serious moment as we wait
never hit around airspace. but in fact, least those cruise missiles. what was the ordinance on this? cruise missiles damage assessment on the ground, were there multiple engagements was this possibly massive amending ordinance penetrator, one of those deeply bombs that goes after a very deep target. the united states has those was it the mother of all bombs which we saw released a number of years ago in afghanistan. those have a very, because they re so large, about 30,000 pounds can they be released by aircraft? the israelis have currently in their inventory billie an f 15 that was equivalent appropriately, the empty wave. and if f 15 plus loaded weight underneath, you d be right it out right at the hair in terms of the distance, the tolerance, and the ability to do that. but again, i mean these are all assumptions that we re making that will be pieced together
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 alo
reported by iranian media abby. yeah, very important if you to underscore the seriousness of this particular moment and those comments from the iranian foreign minister are incredibly significant alex standby for us. i want to go now to cnn, international diplomatic editor, nic robertson. he s joining me live now from jerusalem nick, as alex pointed out, it has been at the urging of the united states that israel, take a beat and perhaps back down in this moment to cool off tensions, we don t know who is responsible or what these blasts might ve been. but this could be the moment that of expansion of this conflict that everyone has been warning us about for months yeah. as alex was saying, that the iranian for a minute, so just a few hours ago you re saying that there would be a decisive immediate response that essentially israel would regret it the skies over this city acquire there s no sirens going off here we re not aware
as we re talking now, i want to bring in political global affairs analyst barak ravid, brock. i know that you are working your sources inside of israel, inside of the us government to find out as much as you can about what s going on here tonight. what are you hearing i don t hear much from these one of the funnier aides, my spoke to just minutes ago just told me no comment. but on the other hand, you know, it s five in the morning now and israel and he was way i think he tells it tells you a lot, even if he says no comment nothing much also from the biden administration all the officials i tried to reach are in radio, silence right now, but i think it s pretty clear to everybody what s going on there is a what seems to be quite significant strike airstrike on any iran near is for khan and the air defense systems were activated. and i