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Are downplaying 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. Its not specifically in response to this strike, so well 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. Theyre not trying to rub irans face in this. Theyre 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 weve been hearing all week that any iisraeli attack would be met with massive retaliation, ....
Going to be looking is is there any evidence at all we can discern. these are locations you re not going to have a lot of media and access. i think a key point is what do we know about the attack? you ll see both sides posturing trying to scale these things down. at the same time, they did have to do something. the israelis felt for their government they had to do something to respond, so really trying to parse out what was the actual damage of an attack, how severe was it, what was the scale of it. were they trying to was the israeli government trying to retaliate and hit a target important to them, that being the natanz facility, for example. a key point everyone is trying to understand is what s the level they can push for. iran was trying to push towards their own domestic audience about their retaliation even though it was not successful ....
“We’ve not been given any indication that attendance at the discussions that will proceed on Wednesday has changed,” Mrs. Psaki told reporters, stressing that “the U.S. was not involved in any manner” in the attack on Natanz. Iranian officials on Monday slammed Israel while playing down the damage caused by the attack. The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran dismissed reports that it would take nine months to fully restore operations at the Natanz facility, while diplomatic officials gave no sign that the Sunday attack killed Tehran’s desire to restore the 2015 deal. European countries that labored to hold the beleaguered agreement together during the Trump years said the cyberattack would not slow down the diplomatic track. ....
Story highlights Iran has accused arch-foe Israel of sabotaging its key Natanz nuclear site on Sunday and has vowed revenge for the attack Iran s foreign minister said Tuesday that Israel made a very bad gamble if it believed its alleged sabotage at the Natanz nuclear plant would stop efforts to lift US sanctions. If they thought that they can stop Iran from following up on lifting sanctions from the Iranian people, then they made a very bad gamble, Mohammad Javad Zarif told a joint press conference with his visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. The Israelis thought the attack will weaken our hand in the Vienna talks but in contrary it will strengthen our position, Zarif said. ....
Outside the pentagon asking whether war with iran has sort of already begun. has it? reporter: well, certainly the covert war appears to have. fox news has learned that in early november there was a meeting a high-level meeting at centcom headquarters in tampa dealing with a possible military plan, honing those plans in case the u.s. gets dragged into a military strike on iran s nuclear facilities. high-level u.s. intelligence officials were present at that meeting. but if you just look back at the series of explosions that have taken place in iran in the last year alone you have more than a dozen explosions at the homes of or outside the cars of iran s top nuclear scientists. the head of the iranian nuclear program was wounded earlier this year. you also have the net worm that was released out last year. that took out 1,000 centrifuges at natanz ....