are down-playing this. they are not at this point pointing the finger at israel. they are not at this point promising revenge. we are expecting to hear the iranians speaking fairly shortly. this is preplanned speech. it s not specifically in response to this strike, so we ll be closely monitoring that. in terms of israel, they are not officially claiming responsibility one way or another there are no plans of address from netanyahu and no official comment from the israeli government and israeli military. and that, too, is really telling. it feels like the israelis are trying to give iran space to not escalate this further. they re not trying to rub iran s face in this. they re not crowing, not claiming victory. so you have this kind of war of words playing out on top of the actual strike itself, so at this moment despite those iranian threats we ve been hearing all week that any iisraeli attack would be met with massive retaliation, it does not look like iran is trying to esc
New ways of catching up on their favorite sport. welcome back to way too early. it s 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. israel carried out a strike against iran overnight and the scope of the attack remains unclear right now. a person familiar with the situation tells nbc news
Be an itack on israel. egypt has already weighed ip. you might listen to jordan and some of the others in the region to see what their take is on it. the separate part of this is are there any iranian proxies that start to speak up this morning and talk about retaliations. i d be looking to the houthis and in yemen, any of the iranian backed militias in syria and iraq as well. those would be key voices to listen to today, to get some sort of idea would we see some sort of asymmetric attack, regional attack on a u.s. or israeli target. the last one not to be overlooked is hezbollah. there has been some back and forth exchange of air strikes and rocket fire between israel and hezbollah the last few days right after that iranian barrage last weekend. that would be a key voice to listen to. clint, not a neighbor in this region but certainly someone with ties to it. what s the role of russia here especially given the ways iran has backed them in ukraine. could we expect any role from
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I would expect to understand that this attack was going to happen. the cia director, bill burns, was in dallas at the george w. bush library. he didn t say israel should not strike. he talked about continuing on the path of de-escalation. i think that whether this is what the united states expected or intended, but that s what you re going to see the white house do, is try to keep this on a path of de-escalation. i know that the iranians have not reacted yet. i know the hope is that they also see this as a limited strike. that the banner in which their attack went down was seen as not something that was going to cause another escalation, and that that is how both sides here treat this attack. but the next few hours are very dicey, and that will determine whether or not how the iranians react to it.