phase. in other words, the israelis had to respond they had to show technical mastery by darkening this attack and it s fani did not presumably go after a nuclear clear facility or a research facility. some radar cedric said or military installations or, or drone installations unclear and we really don t know right now what the nature of the iranian response is going to be? i think within the next 24 hours, we re going to have a pretty good sense of whether or not we are climbing up the escalatory ladder to something the middle east has never experienced before. which is a regional confrontation involving lebanon, iraq, syria, an exchange of ballistic missiles sustained strikes on the part of these rallies against iranian conventional maybe unconventional sites. his vallow opening up with its hundred and 50,000 repository
and also have the knowledge you can t take the knowledge out of iran. they have that capability now, different versus when israel attacked also 1981 for example, or the syrian military when they had a nuclear facility, they brought brought in people from north korea and other places to build that for them. well, in this case, the intellectual capital sits inside of iran. so to say that militarily you re going to take out that capabilities just does not make sense. it s important point and also just for people to know about the nuclear facilities in iran, they were built with tiniest assistance. they open back in 1984 the isp behind nuclear technology center, as we re talking about, is iran is largest nuclear research complex. it employs about 3,000 scientists the point about the institutional knowledge we re talking about. and it s also as a multi-purpose research center that has long been suspected of being the center of a secret iranian nuclear weapons program. so i want to bring i
through syria, then threw a rock and either firing from a rocky airspace or ben crossing into iranian airspace and carrying out those strikes. one more thing in terms of that limited scope, laura i was also told that it was not expected that civilian targets or nuclear targets would be among the strikes that israel was carrying out. and that is very, very important to note because of course, for years israel has said that iran has every intention of building a nuclear weapon and it has targeted indeed and other ways and more covert ways around nuclear program isfahan, this city where we are now seeing explosions reported by iranian news media that does have a significant nuclear facility. but i m told well by two different american officials that it is not expected that israel has gone after nuclear facilities inside iran. now this laura is from ron s fars news agency, a semi official
the proximity of this attack to that facility mean to iran tonight? well, there s two major facilities. one is actually an isfahan, which is a uranium conversion facility. that s where iran has a essential process of converting yellowcake to uranium fluoride oxide. and it s very important because that is then enriched they also the highly enriched stockpiles are actually contained. it is this is farhan fabrication plants, so around is highly enriched material which is used to be converted into weapons-grade uranium, is in isfahan and then 120 kilometers away is then a times enrichment facility where the next essential stage towards weapons-grade uranium takes place. so this is a symbolic message to the iranians. we can hit your nuclear facilities, but also we can penetrate your air defenses and you are defenseless that s striking notion and i wonder based on what the foreign minister said, we certainly, if the symbolism
dominance. they ve gone and presumably done whatever they ve done here and we don t know the extent of it yet as you heard earlier, could have included cyber, could have included attacks elsewhere it s going to take us a day or two to sort all of that out. maybe even longer if they re hard to see attacks like cyber attacks. but the chance that the signal you intend to say to send is not the one that s received, is pretty high in situations like this. important point, including the idea that we heard earlier today, this notion of being in a informational bermuda triangle as we wait to have all the information i want to bring in, mark dubow, its chief executive of foundation for defense of democracies, and an expert on iran, nuclear program. thank you for being here. cnn is learning that that target was not nuclear, but it is certainly close to a major nuclear facility. so what is