Explosions have been reported, not far from a Military Airbase in the province of isfahan and central around according to irans Fars News Agency Defense Systems on the base where activated in response to what may have been a drone attack targeting the basis radar, the city of this hand is believed to be home to around Illicit Nuclear Weapons Program as well as the countrys Biggest Nuclear research facility, which operates three Small Chinese supplied Research Reactors or flights to its for Hand Tehran Entrez have been, have resumed rather are doing suspended for several hours according to a spokesperson for around airports, one us official confirmed to cnn and israeli strike inside around adding the target was not nuclear and israel informed the white house on thursday and attack was just days away. Ready Officials Say air Defense Systems in several regions were activated and the Explosions Heard Isfahan were outgoing fire from those air defenses well, for the very latest, cnns Nic Rob
down this story well, john, what we ve been hearing here in iranian cities or capital is that there has not been a significant, or at least any foreign meaning is really strike against iranian targets and what has been said so far is that some an unidentified flying objects or small towns have been intercepted by iran different system and in iran, the feeling is that israel is trying to save face by exerting a media campaign pain, or psychological operation against iran in a way that to avoid an escalation. and this could be maybe a paved the way out of this escalatory situation in order to put an end to this tit-for-tat process. in recent days. so the early leaders have warned that any israeli attack would trigger a swift and severe yet response are very public about that, saying it almost every day all amping up the rhetoric almost
their connection is unreal. and we could all un-experience this whole session. okay, that s uncalled for. your business easily with freelancers, fiber 2024 stanley cup play. again, april 20 wherever you are around the world, you re watching cnn s breaking news coverage of israel s strike on iran. welcome back everyone. i m john paul s in atlanta. here s what we know at this hour senior us officials as israel has carried out a strike inside iran, where it s now 10:00 a.m. runs files. news agency says three explosions heard near an army airbase in israel hand province. the us official said the target was not nuclear, although the explosions did happen near a major nuclear facility. the nuclear watchdog has since confirmed there is no damage to iran s nuclear sites. were israel warned us on thursday that it would be retaliating
every day how do they walk that back now it doesn t seem to be worked back now because there has been no confirmation of this attacks so far. and it seems that this is somehow similar to sabotage acts in the past us that israelis have been trying to do, again, some iranian targets. and now they re saying that they have been able to intercept some flying objects on the sky. but what is important for iran is to maintain that deterrence equation because you run in terms of the scale of its retaliatory operation against israel used hundreds of missiles and drones. and this is somehow comparable to what, even if there was a limited action today with the friday mornings incident so this doesn t seem to be changing that balance and this is quite important for you on but this somehow is interpreted in
for iran to stop any, let s say significance strike against. he ran an interest in the region so by the time that this is in place, i think we might be see a way out of this relation. but we have to wait again for more updates in the coming hours or days and it s a bit early to judge that if it s over or not, but the moment that we are speaking, i think it doesn t seem to be a rich, a regional war emerging, but however, even little, the chances are there yet in the grand scheme of things, it s often difficult to gauge a public opinion but is this a conflict which is driven by the hardliners and the elites within the government who won much tougher stance on israel some of the general public opinion on all of this, it seems far more concerned about the economy and us sanctions and wanting a better life john, when it comes to external