would take the president s advice, moving forward. i think that is still a big question tonight as to what conversations were had and whether this was in alignment with where israel told the us would they would be a lot of questions here tonight still about how this is received and how they move forward, and whether the us said does get involved. again, if there is retaliation, another time by ran after this attack by israel. so still a lot of open questions, but the white house cruelly monitoring all of this as of now though, no statement no official statement from the white house because so thank you. we re potato, relying on you for your reporting. i want to bring in cnn s nic robertson he s in jerusalem. nick, what has been the response in the region? well, what we re hearing from iranian media into the details that we ve heard already about drones being shot down it appears that media in iran, both the local media there & the semis state media a
scene and global affairs analyst kim dozer. kim, the foreign minister, you ve heard the words he s spoken that it would be immediate how does the united states, now, i ll go about managing what does obviously now been elevated to the next level one of the scary things that we ve been talking about this evening is the fact that the iranians are closing airspace and closing all those different airports because they could be doing that to keep civilian aircraft, say they could be doing that to prepare for immediate retaliation, which is why at this point, i imagine us diplomats western diplomats are reaching out to anyone who has neurons number to say, we ve got to stop this now, we re going to try to hold israel back friends iran tried to hold them back because this is something that can tumble. write down that escalation ladder as we ve been talking about& lead to something really dire, an all out back-and-forth
san and political and national security analyst davidai sanger david president biden, had told israel not to strike iran did here we are. so what position is president biden and now? well, essentially lorries in the position he s been in in gaza, which is repeatedly telling bibi netanyahu that it would be his best advice for the israelis to not strike back or not striking a certain way in the gaza. the issue and a concern has been all about humanitarian losses by dropping thousand and 2000 pound bombs and other strikes in populated areas here he was basically saying to the prime minister hey, don t let your ego get in the way here take the win that came from the fact that none of the uranian missiles actually hit any
nuclear watchdog report did suggests that iran has an enriching uranium two 60%. it s an important figure because weapons-grade uranium needs to be enriched to 90% to make a bomb. and just earlier on our own, airwaves, the iranian foreign minister was speaking to cnn. this is before the strikes, before the strikes instead in the case that israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of iran. the next response from us will be immediate. and at a maximum level, it will be decisive. that was the iranian foreign minister speaking to cnn earlier this evening. i want to bring and see it and pentagon correspondent oren liebermann, or in your reported in the region for a very long time, what is israel s message now with this strike a large part of that depends on the damage on the ground and we ll get a better sense of that in the coming hours and days. but if the initial reports coming out of iran are correct, and it is fairly minor are relatively small
going to come. we also don t know what else happened if there had been a cyber attack. i mean, we ve only seen one layer of potential warfare that s taking place right now. so there s other still courses of action that israel could have taken. we just don t know what they ve done that s it important point. there s also concern because they ve even that conversation earlier tonight, you ll be heard from the iranian foreign minister. he has set the stage to perhaps manage expectations among his own population, talking about should israel engage in certain behavior that it would be the next response would be immediate yet it wouldn t be at a maximum level. it would be decisive is it possible that these could be the words of a paper tiger anything is possible, but i would take her, rainey and threats pretty seriously. i mean, they ve they are pretty serious military capabilities and they have a whole network of terrorist proxies throughout the region. so they certainly can do more than w