After israel promised to respond to a drone and Missile Attack conducted by iran on Saturday Night against israel. With me is mohamed taha from bbc arabic. Mohammed, obviously the news is developing as we sit here. From what we know at the moment, we have only heard that this is an israeli strike from two us officials, not on the record, speaking to our partner station, cbs news, and the target was isfahan. Tell us why Thatis Target was isfahan. Tell us why that is significant. That is significant. Isfahan has a nuclear that is significant. Isfahan has a Nuclear Facility, that is significant. Isfahan has a Nuclear Facility, so l that is significant. Isfahan | has a Nuclear Facility, so if has a nuclearfacility, so if this news is right, this is in retaliation from israel to the earlier attack from aranha against israel, that massive attack. From what we see of that news there is an attack on syria, an attack on iraq at the same time, so we are facing, like, a complicated attack, if tha
way and tonight certainly isn t to make way and tonight certainly isn t to make that conversation any easier to make that conversation any easier. . ., easier. christina ruffini, thank you let s get the latest from our north america correspondent will vernon. will, it s early morning where you are. what are you hearing in relation to these reported explosions in iran? it is late here, it is midnight. what we know so far, mark, is that two us officials have confirmed to the bbc s partner in the us, cbs news, that an israeli missile hit iran. that s about the extent of it so far. we don t have any more details, we don t know the scale of the scope of this response, but we have heard from several iranian sources, local media, several government agencies who say that the air defences have been activated in the country, there have been some sort of explosions in isfahan region and that the airspace is closed over tehran and several other cities.