tomorrow at 11 eastern on cnn welcome. back case the latest on our breaking news, a us official confirms israel s khader strike on iran readying officials say three drawings to his shot down. and state media reporting explosions is ferhat running state media report the situation in the city is normal and nuclear facilities are completely secure. i mean, espace has now reopened. i d flight to and from major cities were suspended the attacks hollows, iran s unprecedented missile and drone barrage on israel less than a week ago just a few hours before we started hearing reportedly explosion in around the country s top diplomat warned of a decisive military response to any israeli action, iran s foreign minister delivered that message to the united nations security council. and also during an interview with cnn s erin burnett parcel her mob our response to the israeli regime was limited in data.
the hour. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m john vause, you watching cnn newsroom a quick recap now, or the israeli strike on iran s the international atomic energy agency is confirming there s no damage to iran s nuclear sites or any of media report. three explosions in the istvan province. hours ago, a us official told cnn, israel launched attacks on iran. but israel s military still, no official word to iran s to airports. now, back up and running flight suspensions across a ran have been lifted so lifetimes to jerusalem and you have cat senior columnist and editor with the jerusalem post. it s good to see you hi john. what s your assessment? first of the strike by israel and what about the rounds decision they seems not to respond i think is real. it s been trying to balance everything at once which is not always easy on the one hand, it
calculation. there that they don t want to get into a wider conflict with israel right now because the strike or the weekend was a failure the one hand there was a failure because most of it was just an intercept and on the other hand, they could say, we struck israel s air force base. we know that some of those missiles landed at this base where the f35 is. this shows most advanced fifth generation fighter jets are based and they can claim that they actually penetrated and were able to strike inside that base. and even though most of it was intercepted, it did get israeli air sirens going. it got israelis in a week of massive stereo, john, israelis were in fear of their lives. i would say in a way that we haven t been at a long time. we ve unfortunately, and this is not a good thing, but we ve got to use to rockets from gaza. we ve gotten used to rockets from lebanon, getting fired from iran after all these years of hearing of how strong and powerful and dangerous they are, did no
still waiting to hear more from the israelis and the iranians and to get more detail on precisely what happened. but we have just gotten what seems to be the first or one of the first diplomatic reactions to what happened. and this is from the ministry of foreign affairs of oman it s the statement said that it condemns the israeli tank today condemns more broadly, israeli attacks in the region and really appeals to the international community to get to the heart or get to the source of the conflict in the first place and try to solve it through diplomatic means and also what to try to get some kind of a lasting ceasefire and peace agreement in place in gaza, which of course continues to inflame things there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity over the past few weeks, especially john, in the wake of israel s strike on april the 1st against that iranian diplomatic facility bility in damascus and to try to send