As concerns mount, heres what the us president had to say. Reporter mr president , what is your message to iran in this moment . Dont. We are devoted to the defence of israel. We will support israel, we will help defend israel and iran will not succeed. Thank you very much. Our state department correspondent, tom bateman, has this analysis. Well, i think theres two things going on here. Because what weve had is the very public messaging from the white house right up to President Biden himself, which has been around the fear of or the concern of the credible threat of an attack by the iranians onto israeli soil. And what has been said to be an ironclad commitment by The Americans to israels right to defend itself, in the case of that, but then theres been this behind the scenes messaging, which has been going on for several days now, from across the us administration, which has been far more specific about what kind of strike this might involve. Now, that is included. Our us news partne
An iranian strike on israel could come at any moment. As concerns mount, heres what the us president had to say. Reporter mr president , what is your message to iran in this moment . Dont. We are devoted to the defence of israel. We will support israel, we will help defend israel and iran will not succeed. Thank you very much. So why is the us putting out such strong warnings about a possible attack . And how are those warnings being felt in israel . Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale has this analysis, from jerusalem. President biden has said that he expects an attack against israel from iran sooner rather than later, and unnamed us officials are saying that attack could involve hundreds of drones and missiles against military targets here in israel. Now, that may be a prediction of the future based on hard intelligence, but it may also be the United States trying to deter iran to try and minimize any kind of response by talking up the threat right now. It also could be an att
On israel could come at any moment. As concerns mount, heres what the us president had to say. Reporter mr president , what is your message to iran in this moment . Dont. We are devoted to the defence of israel. We Will Support Israel, we will help defend israel and iran will not succeed. Thank you very much. So why is the us putting out such strong warnings about a possible attack . And how are those warnings being felt in israel . Our Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale has this analysis, from jerusalem President Biden has said that he expects an attack against israel from iran sooner rather than later, and unnamed us officials are saying that attack could involve hundreds of drones and missiles against military targets here in israel. Now, that may be a prediction of the future based on hard intelligence, but it may also be the United States trying to deter iran to try and minimize any kind of response by talking up the threat right now. It also could be an attempt to try and sha
To travel outside of tel aviv, jerusalem and beersheeva. The us embassy said it had made the order out of an abundance of caution, due to fears about a possible attack by iran. Earlier the Israeli Defence minister, yoav gallant, has told his us counterpart that israel will respond appropriately if it is directly attacked by iran. Washington continues to try to dissuade iran from launching a retaliatory strike following the attack on its consulate in syria last week. Lets speak to our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega, in jerusalem. Heightened sense of alert. What more can you tell us . Can you tell us . Four days we have been talking can you tell us . Four days we have been talking about can you tell us . Four days we have been talking about those can you tell us . Four days we have been talking about those warnings | been talking about those warnings that have come from american officials saying the iranian response is a matter of when and not if. Ithink response is a matter of