Deescalation. That is the message from the us Secretary Of State, tony blinken just now, after israel launched the retaliatory strike against iran, overnight. Now blinken was just speaking from a g7 summit in italy, telling reporters pointedly that the United States was not involved in any Offensive Operations. As he also said, the focus for the United States and g7 remains deescalation you saw israel on the Receiving End of an unprecedented attack. But our focus has been on, of course, making sure that israel can effectively defend itself, but also so deescalating tensions avoiding conflict. And that remains our focus so israels strikes were in response to the missile and drone attack that iran launched last weekend. The early read this morning seems to be the israel in its response overnight was trying to avoid further escalation. A source in the region saying that the strikes are over around so far downplaying the hit coming at them. John. All right. Us officials confirm that israel
regain his lunch break. try now for free visit otter.ai. ai or download the app on jeremy diamond in tel aviv. and this is cnn we ve been situation unfolding in paris that were following this is just into cnn we re told a police operation is underway at the iranian consulate in paris after a man who was seen carrying a grenade or an explosive vest into the building. cnn s melissa bell is pulling together the details for us. she s joining us right now. melissa, what is happening right now well, pretty big police operation underway in the western rents, areou talking about ,000 small he the search well-heel areasf paris, a that s where th uranium sponr located. teve entirely barricaded off th wholeart of paris.