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
significant that iran seems to be downplaying this straight, which be downplaying this straight, which makes the argument that we could which makes the argument that we could be moving towards de escalation and that israel common de escalation and that israel common sense, shows not to hit population common sense, shows not to hit population centres, joe zee had military population centres, joe zee had military bases, there could be a possibility this could be one and done a possibility this could be one and done. obviously we will have and done. obviously we will have to and done. obviously we will have to see what the rhetoric is coming have to see what the rhetoric is coming out of tehran in the morning is coming out of tehran in the morning. what we are seeing so far is morning. what we are seeing so far is there morning. what we are seeing so far is there are reports of fussy, far is there are reports of fussy, i m am relying on others to analyse fussy, i m
at the moment, they don t want to add to any more rhetoric. they don t. and, you know, the us likes they don t. and, you know, the us likes to they don t. and, you know, the us likes to wait until the full scope us likes to wait until the full scope of us likes to wait until the full scope of this strike has been found scope of this strike has been found out scope of this strike has been found out weight. they want to see found out weight. they want to see with found out weight. they want to see with the damage was, what to see with the damage was, what the to see with the damage was, what the toll was before they are going to react. obviously this wasn t a us carried out straight this wasn t a us carried out straight. pentagon sources have said that straight. pentagon sources have said that they want to make it very said that they want to make it very clear said that they want to make it very clear that the us did not assist very clear that the us did
massive escalation in this tit for tat conflict? in massive escalation in this tit-for-tat conflict? in the e es tit-for-tat conflict? in the eyes of tit-for-tat conflict? in the eyes of the tit-for-tat conflict? in the eyes of the israelis - tit-for-tat conflict? in the eyes of the israelis and i tit-for-tat conflict? in the - eyes of the israelis and minds of israelis, yes, that s an escalation, but how are they going to respond? it s clear that last week iran shot enough of its long range missiles that they do not effectively have a second strike capability anymore. so if there is a response that comes out of iran with the capabilities that we are aware of, it would have to be done by proxies, they don t have the drones nor do they have the drones nor do they have the drones nor do they have the missiles to make a significant second strike on israel. ~ ., significant second strike on israel. ~ . , ., significant second strike on israel. ~ ., .,~ significant second strike on isra
but i want to wait until we see more and hear more before i make that determination. irate more and hear more before i make that determination. we are heaļ¬na make that determination. we are hearing now make that determination. we are hearing now from make that determination. we are hearing now from the make that determination. we are hearing now from the afp - hearing now from the afp newsagency, i want to bring you this line reaching up to the israeli military and officials there saying, quote, we do not have comment at this time. now we know that when iran washed attacks on israel, these are very much telegraphed in advance, we had maybe hours ahead of time that iran planned on launching some sort of strike on israel. it is noteworthy at all to you that we haven t really had any confirmation yet from israel one way or the other about what s been taking place? yes but for different what s been taking place? yes but for different reasons. many people say that one of the reaso