Polantz at the federal court in washington, and this is cnn hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me on for greek. A whitfield were following major developments on capitol oh, hell, right now, the House Of Representatives is in session for a rare saturday highstakes vote for the past several hours, lawmakers have been debating milk ill let terry aid bills for ukraine and israel and taiwan totaling 95 and at any moment now, lawmakers are expected to begin voting on the three laws. Longawaited Funding Bills to sweeten the deal for House Republicans, a fourth bill contains sanctions for iran, a seizure of Frozen Russian Assets thats plus a potential nationwide tiktok ban gop House Speaker mike johnson was able to advance the bipartisan bills through congress this week with the help of death democrats. Its a move that could cost him his job as some hardliners in his party have threatened to introduce a measure to remove him from his post and moments so go, House Minority lea
Explosions have been reported, not far from a Military Airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to irans Fars News Agency Defense Systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around Illicit Nuclear Weapons Program as well as the countrys Biggest Nuclear research facility, which operates three Small Chinese supplied Research Reactors or flights to its for Hand Tehran Entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. Ready Officials Say air Defense Systems in several regions were activated and the Explosions Heard Isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest, cnns Nic Rob
direct its territory to territory attack, employing ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones and some of the smaller acts and measures that were put into hr eight, the one that just passed at least from the house, sayyed does contain human rights sanctions, reporting requirements importantly, a strategy to counter iran s illicit oil exports so china, because for over a decade where they re listed or elicit china has been the biggest source of revenue for iranian oil. and as we saw, those are revenue is going towards the military program, the drone program, the missile program. and even yes, indeed, the nuclear program. and then critically more aid, of course, to israel now, in terms of both supporting the existing missile and air defense architecture, israel has some of the most layered air and missile defense in the region. strengthening this can deter a perspective or future iranian attack as well as by its proxies well, let me ask you your thoughts about these tensions betwee
israel, which is in keeping with what we saw from a ram, the direct territory to territory attack. so potentially, it wasn t it wasn t too destroy something. we had a us official telling cnn as well that they thought it was possible that israel would try and carry out an attack and make sure they were no casualties but just more fought for show to show that they can re-establish the sense of the text hello, thank you. pull the hancocks life for us in beirut and also nic robertson lifers in jerusalem. this out, thanks to you both could now lot to tehran and abbas has lani, a journalist and senior research fellow at the center for middle east strategic studies. as i think he s being with us thank you, john, for having me. it s a pleasure now how i just from your point of view, how s this story being reported then given the government s tight control over the media, is that indicative of where the government actually stands right now in trying to play
iran. i think we should also be aware that there will be implications around the world. there may well be implications in the united states. the bottom line, what just happened the biden administration to your point of sanctions, the biden administration initially led $36 billion worth of assets. they then added to that a release of a wait, they gave a waiver allowing iran to sell $10 billion worth of oil to a iraq next door. $16 billion worth of appeasement. appeasement does not buy you anything. what appeasement by shoe is emboldened of the party being appeased. that is why iran hit israel. what we have is a brand-new territorial hot war. i urge people to think about this for a moment. this has been a proxy war up until the attack by iran on israel. it is now territory to territory attack. i hope it doesn t escalate, but the chances are it will and people need to be aware of that.