Overnight, a us official told cnn, israel carried out a Military Strike deep inside iran good, this escalate the already tense situation in the middle east Jury Selection in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial could wrap up today. Opening statements in this store, a case are on track to begin monday, plus on the house floor, a critical test for a longstalled foreign aid bill for israel and ukraine hello, im wolf blitzer in washington and urine the cnn newsroom happening now a decadeslong shadow war between israel and iran spills out in the open. Us officials dow say israel launched and overnight strike on iran, appearing to target a Military Facility some 200 miles from the Capital Tehran in the hours since the attack, there has been a nearly unified Global Response arounds allies like china and russia echoing calls from israels western supporters to show restraint. And avoid a wider regional conflict. Cnn is covering the story from around the globe our chief International Security correspo
attached her step by. i want to bring in nick paton walsh right now. nick, you re monitoring the reaction from iran. what are you hearing? yeah. look, it s been comparatively muted this morning from iranian officials or lack of transparency, frankly on the damage done. some military official suggesting we re talking about three drones potentially intercepted another suggesting that the noise is heard over is for a city that has some key military and nuclear facilities are rounded, but that was essentially related to air defenses are targeting a suspicious objects. so we don t really know exactly whether the iranians are going to admit what was hit here. and that may play very well into their hands what are the key advantages of being an autocracy is you get to control the information within your own society. and so iran looks like for now it is essentially trying to say that israel didn t really manage to hit anything and what happened in the skies over iswaran last night was a bit