result? knowing that both nations now? have been able to reach the others actual territory but there s a distinction here. the iron dome was able to intercept at least 99%. this has now reached iran, although we don t yet know the damage well, first of all, there was no allies on the side of iran, or at protecting them as was in the side of israel, was part of that miraculous solution, frankly, i mean, two the shoot nine, 9% of those rockets, 300 rockets coming towards your country is nothing short of a miracle. it was a tremendous military accomplishment. what iran does not have the same air defense capabilities and they likely were on high alert. they would they would probably give it their best shot, but they just don t have the same capability. so where this is escalating now is iran gets, gets violated. the israelis hit actually their targets like with the why behind the target s still remains, was it to get close to nuclear facilities? was it to destroy
region and perhaps the international community like some sort of damocles. it s not a good day, but i m not predicting and i don t think we should rush to the conclusion that we re really now on the cost of a major, major conformation really important. thank you so much i have new reporting in as well. from our own barak ravid, and he said this, that he, that israel notified the united states in advance. the official telling him that we weren t not surprised. i want to bring in san and political and national security analysts, david sanger, davidai, what is your reaction to that new reporting from our own animals? okay. ravine and reporting this that the united states had been notified in advance wouldn t surprise me because earlier today there was a meeting between jake sullivan and some sr visiting israelis. it dealt with both this retaliatory
specifically, what was hit. you know, a lot of the iranian attack apparently hit an israeli airbase. so it looks like what the israelis may have done is hit an iranian army and airbase. and that s it we re not hearing reports of any explosions in the rest of the country. so this might actually be a return to the covert war that israel has waged against iran since about 20:10, with assassinations suicide odd captors, taking out different parts of the nuclear program so let s see if israel decides to fess up in the next 24 hours because when it comes to the israeli public, they don t need a public declaration. their shore it was their team striking back. let s see what iran feels the need to do. i want to bring back seat and chief national security correspondent, alex marquardt. alex, this is not something to
very thing tonight? what you re on the precipice is people misreading signals. i mean, we ve seen that happen a lot. laura, in different military activity and then on paper, you work this out for sort of escalate what, what? in the term of art is escalation dominance each each country trying to figure out how they go up the escalation ladder and make it they re the dominant player. but what seems to work for the israeli s may not work for the iranians and vice versa in the israelis were ready, made one miscalculation here when they did the initial strike against the seven irgc officers, they thought that the iranians would take this the way they ve taken others and didn t really anticipate that they would see the kind of response they saw less saturday night. so somewhat embarrassed by that. and also determined to show their escalation
was able, able to intercept the missiles, the drones that was suggesting why some were suggesting two prime minister benjamin and yahoo to quote unquote, take the win. what does it say that iran could not defend against this attack? well, for one thing, iran does not have anything similar to the iron dome. so it s clear defenses are fairly antiquated in comparison to the israeli earned offenses. they re not an effective, but they are not as effective as the israeli air defense system, which is a highly sophisticated, one of the best it s in the world. so that is really why you see this difference. and of course, we will have to wait for the battle damage assessments to come out and to get some idea of exactly what was here too, and how effective the israeli strikes work. but it seems like they were able to do this pretty much with impunity. and it tells us that there are basically holes in the iranian air defense system. and that the israelis can take advantage of them if they feel t