near the city of isfahan, which protects the natanz nuclear facility. it follows weeks of tensions between the rivals, during which israel attacked an iranian compound in syria, and iran launched an unprecedented assault against israel. i have been speaking about the situation in the region with jasmine el gamal, a political analyst and former middle east adviser at the us department of defence. so the iranian response was basically to play down the attack. there was a clear signal from iran after the attack that they did not want to escalate further. you will remember that before the israeli strike, the iranians were warning that if there was an israeli strike that was significant enough that the iranians would not hesitate to counterattack once again. and so the fact that they are downplaying this strike, there are a lot of messaging, there was a lot of messaging on social media from iran linked accounts that were almost kind of making fun of the types of weapons that had made their
many weeks and before october the 7th, attacks by hamas for many months indeed, protesting against him and his policies. iran s foreign minister has questioned whether israel was involved in friday s attack on iran, saying the weapons used were like toys our children play with . but in an interview with nbc news, hossein amir abdollahian said if israel did take decisive action against iran, the response would be immediate and to the maximum . us officials said an israeli missile hit iran on friday. israel reportedly targeted an air defence radar system near the city of isfahan, which protects the natanz nuclear facility. it follows weeks of tensions between the rivals, during which israel attacked an iranian compound in syria, and iran launched an unprecedented assault against israel. meanwhile, in iraq, a base used by pro iranian militias has been damaged by a large explosion, a day after israel s presumed strike on iran. one person was killed and eight others injured in the bla
have also been wounded. violence in the west bank has intensified since the war between israel and hamas erupted last october. let s bring you some live pictures from tel aviv, iran s foreign minister has questioned whether israel was involved in friday s attack on iran, saying the weapons used were like toys our children play with . but in an interview with nbc news, hossein amir abdollahian said if israel did take decisive action against iran, the response would be immediate and to the maximum . us officials said an israeli missile hit iran on friday israel reportedly targeted an air defence radar system near the city of isfahan, which protects the natanz nuclear facility. it follows weeks of tensions between the rivals, during which israel attacked an iranian compound in syria, and iran launched an unprecedented assault against israel. let s bring you some live
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
old antiquated, or they ve since been upgraded in some ways using iranian capabilities and other capabilities but they probably pose a very limited threat to the israelis the only thing to keep in mind, laura, is that when it comes to the nuclear facilities in and around s5 on the one that s really important is the natano nuclear facility. and that is 120 kilometers or about 70 miles away from his behind. so if you strike the area around is fine. you are not going to be striking the city of isfahan. that is, you re not going to be striking not tons. and what you are telling them. as we ve talked about how do we you are telling everybody that you could reach this area and you can in fact eliminate that threat, or at least attack that threat. if you need, need to do so. carnal leighton, just singly compared to the signal that he ran sand by being able to reach israel issued a warning beforehand. and the iron dome