spark escalation. ar thank you all very much for guiding us through this breaking news story. could the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts right now. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we are st following breaking news this evening for a person familiar g tells nbc news that israel has carried out an operation in iran this evening. today israeli officials notified u.s. officials that the response was coming, the u.s. and its allies have been pressuring israel not to retaliate after it fended off a missile attack from iran last weekend. of course we also know that it is an incredibly tense time in b one of the most volatile parts of the world. leaders around the globe have s been hoping that the israel- hamas war would not spiral into a large conflict let s begin nbc news senior white house correspondent, gabe gutierrez. what can you tell us tonight? hi there, stephanie. a person familiar telling abc news that israel has carried out an operation inside ira
Israel point had israel, at that point, gone into those places and taken out that infrastructure and removed those terrorist organizations is not the best example, but that is where we kind of are right now with the iranians. t if we allow this to happen without a response, we are basically saying to them, you got the carte blanche to go ahead and do whatever you want and that is something that th israel cannot afford pixel actually think that the response has a greater chance se of minimizing the scope of in future war. but how? what would that look like? if israel had to make this move , what truly happens next in terms of de-escalation to quiet this? that is going to be up to the iranians. again, they started this. people tend to keep on going back in time, just at the beginning of april what israel took out an iranian general who was part of the islamic resolution or guard who was the main coordinator of terrorist activities in support of hezbollah and hamas in gaza and