important as we gather more information, laura, this is according to one us official the israeli retaliation for that iranian attack last weekend that the us has feared. the us has been urging israel not to carry out any kind of strike thank telling israel to quote unquote, take the win to recognize that they are able to fend off a massive iranian attack last weekend that was in response, i should say, to israel s attack on the iranian consulate in damascus. so the us is essentially been saying it s even now, guys please don t attack iran. please don t don t escalate the situation and i m told by a senior us official that earlier today, israeli officials did notify the united states that they would be attacking iran in the coming days. so the us was given a warning that this could happen soon, and that is what appears to be unfolding, right now. laura, alex, in the coming days and here it has now begun, as you mentioned, the take the
penetrated air defenses successfully and destroyed iranian fighter jets on the runway. i think there s a certain amount of symbolism and symmetry that i think people would find interesting and perhaps even in some respects i m using and through the eyes of the iranians, highly problematic. it seems to be quite a blow if they were not able to accomplish that, which was done to them. just days later. i wonder about this this informational that void that we re in right now, given that there are perhaps efforts to downplay the impact of israel s attack in the region. the idea of wondering if they re going to really back up the word they ve said is the world really at the mercy of iran to give the information that has resulted, or do we have the ability to rely on these commercial or spy satellites to assess independent of what iran tells the world yeah, i have no doubt over the coming day or days
one that we were familiar with just a few weeks ago, the one that these rarely stop when they attacked the uranium consulate in damascus and killed these iranian generals. they didn t think that iran was going to go and attack israel. now, the israelis are hoping that the iranians don t counter attack, but they very well might. so we don t know where this is going to go because this is a new middle east that were sinking. it s a more dangerous place when i go back to cnn global affairs analyst kim dozer, i mean, to max is point this is right out in the open, which is highly and usual for conflict between israel and iran, right out in the open. and yet we re having this confirmed to us by anonymous officials. i don t know that we re going to have the israeli military gives us a pentagon style briefing and tell us what they fired and where and what the point was so unless the iranian state media chooses to show us the leftovers of missiles or drones. we may not know what was fired
and also have the knowledge you can t take the knowledge out of iran. they have that capability now, different versus when israel attacked also 1981 for example, or the syrian military when they had a nuclear facility, they brought brought in people from north korea and other places to build that for them. well, in this case, the intellectual capital sits inside of iran. so to say that militarily you re going to take out that capabilities just does not make sense. it s important point and also just for people to know about the nuclear facilities in iran, they were built with tiniest assistance. they open back in 1984 the isp behind nuclear technology center, as we re talking about, is iran is largest nuclear research complex. it employs about 3,000 scientists the point about the institutional knowledge we re talking about. and it s also as a multi-purpose research center that has long been suspected of being the center of a secret iranian nuclear weapons program. so i want to bring i
can get very grim very quickly. what s the danger of now meeting this particular moment of a broader escalation. are you suggesting that? there are some point of no return that would involve others in the region well, that s that has been the fear of the biden administration throughout which has been which has been why it is it has tried very hard for weeks now and especially in the last 48 and 72 hours, it just tried very, very hard to restrain iraq. a beg your pardon. israel from responding to iran s latest attack. now that israel has sort of essentially brushed aside american concerns and gone ahead and made this attack. yes, i am concerned that we now our in an we ve now reached a stage where what comes next is very, very hard to predict the iranians are trying to play down the attack, but it s nighttime it is a little hard to know the extent