In military conflicts. Lets speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale whos injerusalem. Talk is through the events so far, and what the reaction tells us about how this is viewed in the region . Remember, we are still in that stage where the full facts are not known, and that those people who are commenting and talking about what has happened, and many of them have agendas to try and talk up or play down what has happened, but in terms of the basic facts, we know that Iranian State media are reporting there have been explosions near a Military Base in isfahan in central iran. Basically if you find tehran on a map and go due south it is there. Essentially there have been reports of air defence explosions taking off, a Senior Iranian commanders have said they have shut down some drones. Again, we still dont know exactly what was part of this air strike. The iranians at the moment are saying there has been no damage. The israelis are officially not saying anything, so there has
Confirm the details togetherwithout allies. We have condemned irans reckless and dangerous barrage of missiles against israel on saturday and israel absolutely has the right to self defence but as i said to Prime Minister netanyahu last week, significant escalation is not in any ones interest, we want calm heads to prevail across the region. The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed there is no damage to irans nuclearfacilities. In a social media post, the agencys director general, Rafael Mariano grossi, continued to call for extreme restraint from everybody and said Nuclear Facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. Lets speak to our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale whos injerusalem. James, give us a flavour of the reaction that there has been so far to this attack . To this attack . Well, internationally, to this attack . Well, internationally, there has to this attack . Well, internationally, there has been actually a fairly muted response of various
Nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. Irans semi official tasnim news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps, posted a video with a caption saying. Isfahan s nuclear site is completely safe. In the video, a man near the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Centre is seen showing his watch to the camera to indicate the time and date. We can then see several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. Reuters newsagency is reporting that an unnamed iranian source has said there is no immediate plan for retaliation. As well as these explosions in iran, they were reported, too, in Southern Syria apparently from missiles targeting radar sites. And there were also blasts in iraq in the capital baghdad. And babil province to the south. Israel had promised to respond to irans drone and Missile Attack on saturday night. Both nbc and cnn have reported unnamed Officials Saying that israel warned washington, but that washington did not
conventionally, israel vastly over matches iran. and this is a demonstration of that. i suspect your correspondent frank gardner, said earlier on today, iran is far more likely to fight in the shadows using its terror groups and proxies, rather than go toe to toe with israel conventionally, where it knows it would get a real hammering. what reaction do think we expect from iran s clearly the mood music appears to be downplaying the scale of this. but earlier in the week they had said they would react. what is your expectation for what we can look for from iran? is your expectation for what we can look forfrom iran? i is your expectation for what we can look for from iran? look for from iran? i think the initial reaction look for from iran? i think the initial reaction is, look for from iran? i think the initial reaction is, as - look for from iran? i think the initial reaction is, as you - look for from iran? i think the initial reaction is, as you say, | look for from iran? i thi
and as you say, they appear to have hit a military base, whether it s the iranian revolutionary guard corps, who knows? i wouldn t be at all surprised. and fairly near to where we believe iran is trying to build nuclear weapons, so i expect a nod to them. i think this attack is very much a demonstration of capability and perhaps intent. iran fires 300 plus missiles and drones at israel. they virtually all get knocked down. israel fires one, perhaps two missiles in iran at a target, it appears to have got through and damaged. and i think people might be surprised to know that, conventionally, israel, militarily vastly overmatches iran. and this is a demonstration of that fact. and i expect. i think your correspondent frank gardner said earlier on today iran would be far more like to fight in the shadows, using its terror groups and proxies, rather than go toe to toe with israel conventionally, where it knows it would get a real hammering. and what reaction do you think