looking normal. more reports from iran saying that the explosions that people heard in the city that were explosions this morning that the population could both see and hear were air defenses, but that they were not the major air defense systems, the s 300 or significant military systems that they were of a smaller scale. so so far at this stage, iran is not even attributing blame to that attack and is barely acknowledging it. so it could be that both israel and iran are trying to limit this israel had said that it would respond, israel has been hinting at this for days. there has been a lot of pressure on israel to either not do it at all, to try and contain this crisis because this has been a -for-tat already with two weeks ago now pick israel carrying out a
attack obviously in an iranian attack on israel we do not enjoy diplomatic relations with iran so they aren t calling us to tell us stuff but in this particular case, america s influence over and support of the israeli military would suggest to me that it would be automatic that america would know these things. please it is so interesting to see how this past week has played out. we have, of course, a direct conversation over the weekend between president biden and prime minister netanyahu, two men who have known each other for decades, know a lot about how one another thinks and knows how to potentially push one another s buttons but also lead one to a place at the other one to get to pick and so that was an important conversation to start the week, one in which we know from reporting that the message was made by president biden to take the win, not to take any escalatory steps at this point. obviously as the week has gone on there have been a series of conversations in informal means
iran vowed to respond last week and we saw them lunch about 300 projectiles toward israel. most of which were intercepted but not all of them and of course, israel vowed to respond to that. according to a number of u.s. officials, israel did brief the u.s. on some of their potential response options to this iranian attack over the weekend and one of the things one of the options that they did brief them on was a possibility of going after iranian proxies in the region or iranian officials, not inside iran but neighboring areas, and that brings me to some more reports that we are trying to run down here tonight. that is of some explosions pl inside syria. now one of the most complicated factors in what is a very complicated situation is the fact that israel rarely acknowledges when they carry out these sorts of strikes and attacks, whether it be in syria or even in iraq or other areas
that is not necessarily happening in israel at the moment. so, good morning, i am actually in jerusalem and we are hearing similar reports to what roman was just talking about a moment ago that sources confirming to nbc news that israel did carry out what is describing as a limited strike, there has been no official is really confirmation on a, what seems to be a military base just outside of isfahan. but iran is downplaying it. if you look at iranian state television there have been some reports denying that an attack took place, there are pictures coming out of iran, on iranian television, showing the main square and is a honk, a traffic circle there was traffic flowing as normally as normally as pictures coming out, showing the nuclear facilities which are embedded into a mountainside in east on, also
israel vowed that it would respond to iran s attack on saturday after iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at israel, which was retaliation for an israeli strike on and iranian consular building in damascus, syria, earlier this month. at this hour, prime minister benjamin netanyahu s office has declined to comment. joining us now is nbc news pentagon and national security correspondent, courtney kube the pick you had this news very early, courtney, in terms of what was happening. it is less clear than what happened on th saturday where we knew that there were waves and waves of drones followed by missiles in e the air, directed at iran. what has happened tonight as far as we know? as it is interesting, we actually had a much better sense of what was happening with the iranian italian tory strikes against israel over the weekend and we have really gotten the sense of what is happening here tonight. but what we know so far, allie, is that israel did carry out an operation in iran