giving us, do you want me to treat expertise on the developing story? hey, other ron's retaliatory attack against israel. so to our view is now just joining us here on, i'll just say it's just coming up to a $100.00 gmc, we continue with special ed coverage of that will tell you what your top 5 ron against is. right? let's go to gabriel is on the now with you and a headquarters in new york and gabe. so we were talking to you already about these ladies asking for a security council meeting. what more can you tell us? yeah, just within the last few minutes we have been able to confirm that the un security council will be holding an emergency meeting at 4 pm new york time on sunday. that's 20 g m t is information is confirmed by uh malta who holds the presidency of the security council for the month of april. they are confirming that they did receive this letter that was sent to the secretary general and to the security council. this letter from the is rarely m. bassett or the lot or damn these really

ambassador to the un. israel's a formal request for an emergency security council meeting, but because is real is not a member of the security council. i took another member of that counsel to also uh, you know, sort of put forth this request. malta has accepted it and there will be an emergency un security council meeting on sunday. again, that's 4 pm new york time. that's 20 g m t here at un headquarters in security council chambers. yeah, gabriel and the just the final thoughts you, i mean we, we were talking to you earlier that israel is not a big fan of a you and it seems quite ironic that they're asking for you and interventions that yeah, that's right to israel has been very critical of the un uh for a long time, quite frankly, but particularly in the last 6 months. but it's been personal critiques as well.

it's a lot of that, and that is really ambassador to the un is actually called for secretary general antonio gutierrez to resign. and shame because of the way that is real think she is miss handling the way the u. n. is dealing with israel's war on guys. i mean it's been very personal attacks against the secretary general by israel. israel's clearly no fan of the secretary general, obviously no fan of under the un relief and works agency that deals with the humanitarian issues in guys that uh so very critical of you and officials top to bottom. and so the fact that now when it suits this real, now they are calling on the un security council with this letter that we confirmed, is legitimate here, calling on the un security council to have a meeting. so israel can voice its displeasure with uh, erie rance, strikes against israel. retaliatory strikes, clearly shows how is real uh, at least when it comes to diplomacy. it,

the un sort of tries to use this body when it needs to. but then dismiss the un when it's not in their benefit or when it's when the u. n is being perhaps critical of israel. so that's a situation i should say in this letter from me is rarely ambassador to the security council. and i will read the whole thing, but i'll just re part of it. it says the gravity in volume of the attacks by you rad are unprecedented and are a flagrant violation of israel sovereignty of international law and of security council resolution related resolutions. e ran poses a direct threat to international peace and brazenly violates the un charter and security council resolutions. i should also point out though, that you run and posted a message on the social platform xt, and any rents post uh from over an hour ago. it said that it conducted, uh, this stride color strikes, i should say,

on the strength of article $51.00 of the un charter, pertaining to legitimate defense year ends. military's back email transaction was in response to zion is present regimes aggression on our diplomatic presence in damascus. so that was your end stance on this pointing to article 51 of the charter, which does say any member state which is a victim of military aggression does have a right and the un charter to respond. so that is clearly you rams, rams. response. and why they said they carried out to this retaliatory strike as he ran, puts it in accordance with international law and the un charter. all right, i'll just, there was gabriel is under reporting that from human headquarters in new york. gabe? thank you. i'm so we're bringing you continuing coverage of veronica. we're telling you had to attack against israel. israel says more than $200.00 drums and miss oswell launched from the wrong the majority of which was intercepted,

the whatever it simon sounded in more than $720.00 locations and rockets were intercepted across the country to around says the strikes are in response to israel plumbing, i'll be right in consulate in syria. there are reports to people were injured in the attacks. to hear that we thought a lives in boston is across the region. we are operating at this very moment to defend these real familiar arms with tech. the sofa, we have intercepted the vast majority of incoming. these signs by ease, rarely, systems, sofa. we have intercepted and i'll continue doing so the to intercept dozens of tech drones as well as crews, mit signs and bodies degree sized outside of these words. both the and number of for any and me says friend inside is really territory cold is causing minor damage

to a military base with no casualties. only one little girl has been hurt and we hope she will be when well, i'll just say it was really tell him to join us live now from occupied east jerusalem. the road. so you've taken off your flight jacket and your helmet because these right, these security officers of lifted at the low level, meaning residents no longer need to take shelter. what can i tell us where we yeah, absolutely. yeah. its been just over an hour since diner hook, already made that so the pop date. uh we were just listening to that and stating the update. he said it's not a the yes and set to these ready planes and the finds it is, is uh, was still shooting down drones outside. it was already had space. but since then they has, as you say, being a downgrading of uh, the home front. come on,

that level for is right around the country is basically telling them that they no longer have to be near shelters. essentially say that the immediate danger has cost for the documents has these i had to supply. i've taken off my, my flak jacket in my home, and that's so much of the night hopping say that this attack, the israel was on the, was a test, a test because it's a defense capabilities. and it seems to pass that test proceed conclusively with the help of the united states with help with the u. k. from san jordan. it has shut down from what we understand is the vast majority of more than $200.00 drones and miss silas that were launched against it. now, down, you have been speaking to a panelists for the last couple of hours,

who would be saying that iran is attack was likely casserly kind of braces to make it points, but not to cause so much damage that it escalated the situation into a why the conflict in this part of the well. so what we have seen in israel is that the damage is being rented. it'd be minus sofa, so far as being reported with damage to an advice and this house at only a couple of a casualties. i know you can find fatalities, but what that means is that there is now another test for its route. the test is what is the scope response going to be? the war cabinet has been authorized to risk heavy rights in some way against the israel, but sorry against the wrong. but is that retaliation going to be carefully kind of breaks it to what the united states got to be saying to is about isn't going to be

trying to dial down that response and basically say, so everyone involved. that's enough. let's go, let's calm things down. now, all right, well you've been talking to us throughout the evening about the ministry and ad defense preparations of israel's been making over the last week or so. because let's remind off here is israel is extremely, technologically advanced, and it's a defense and gps jumping capabilities. a yes, i mean for, for a long time now for the, for 10 days, at least a israel has been on a heightened states of a lot because it knew that something was going to be coming. the c radiance. it said that somebody was coming to, you know, if they had said that they were going to strike kids routes in some form or another . so of course, israel has passed a multiple different possibilities. that was the possibility of some sort of browning cash and most likely from hezbollah in the know, from lebanon. so they cancels who leave for combat units of soldiers.

they will sycold up a defense reservate. so they could mind the defense, the batteries that we soul with, all right, and i is the of the, the sky line of to reach them just a few hours ago. launching into effect as up into the sky to take down the drawings and themselves. the coming in, they also put on a, let's coincidence and embassies around the wells because there was a fear that perhaps those soft targets might be what around shows at the strikes. and that was widespread jamming, which went on so that the 10 days that was in place for and was, was definitely in place to nice for me if you're looking at your phone and you'll find matt was saying that you weren't here. you went to jerusalem. mueller, and they wrote it so here in damascus. so completely scrambled. these are the kinds of things that, that is where i was putting in place. and also this home front come on,

told me that no mass street, so people should be taking place. so angry thing over a 1000 people that was our roads and also i schools are still going to be closed for the next couple of days. so the thrice has not gone yet, but it's become down. all right, i'll really challenge live for us there and ultra bodies. joyce in that role. res, thank you. well, i'll be home tonight or on spring deed as issued a statement on cuz he says the malicious son is where he will be punished. i talking a concept is like, i'm talking a soil. the malicious regime has made a wrong move in this case that's bringing again, dosage a battery to join us live from the rainy and capital to iran, to a set. so we also have this statement on x by the uranium diplomats of human saying this is their only response and they consider the matter concluded, and they don't want a whitening of the conflict. what are the make of that response though? so because it seems fairly calibrated in terms of what actually happened is

certainly, and we've been hearing from the rain officials that their response would be precise and limited. and that is what we've seen this evening in the operation dropped to promise by the revolution regard. they issued a 2nd statement saying that they are continuing to be ready for any kind of a response from these rallies. but also the revolutionary guards had a message for countries that have been helping israel and in terms of disrupting what iran was trying to carry out at saying that the specifically the united states and they will not go, their actions will not go on, answered. i think we've seen the worst of what was to come from iran, certainly not a full on attack a and certainly a show of what iran is capable of. certainly seems that we have never seen before. and being carried out to buy uranium missiles, drones, and cruise marseilles, as well as ballistic missiles by the revolutionary guards, according to a say

t v. they hit military targets successfully. of course, that is being disputed by as rarely official saying they've sustained minor damage . now we begin to the next phase of this uh, sa god, that is what these really responsible fee. and for that reason, the revolutionary guard remains on high alerts and have now issued wards of warnings to israel. we heard from the commander of the revolutionary guard telling state tv that any kind of a response from is or will be met by a harsher response that what we've seen tonight from iran. i think there's a sense that this was certainly a message to israel, a not an act to try and engage in full on war. and this was a mission that was approved by the supreme national security council of iran, which is made up of the president's and the number of high ranking military officials. and of course, the supreme leader i to, i like harmony who's the commander in chief of the countries. all forces would have

had to have final say on the matter of for now we radians will be waiting to see what israel will do and whether or not they will be able to maintain this conflict currently where things are at without escalating it further. yeah, to essentially say this was pretty unprecedented, this direct attack by iran against israel. what's the mood amongst ordinary radians on the street as well? what we've seen, of course, is overnight, here districts are empty. there's been a sporadic gatherings of the members of the bus. each forces that is the volunteer force of the revolution regard as palestine square here earlier, and also reportedly outside of the british embassy here in tron. but generally, the general public will be waking up to this news in the coming hours. and i think most people will be certainly shocked. you have to remember for 45 years since the revolution of 1979. this rhetoric and threats against israel has been ongoing,

but never really did anyone think that it wrong with directly heads targets inside as well as this is something that was a possibility after israel carried out an air strike on the wrong console section in damascus on april 1st, killing 7 members of our owns revolutionary guard. but of course it's not that one incident that has to trigger this response from iran. it's been years of sabotage and assassinations at that. israel has carried out both inside iran and in the region in syria alone since october 7, syrian is where the air strikes have killed 18 members of our owns revolutionary guards. inside, around since 2016 iranian nuclear sciences had been assassinated. one of them survived the assassination attempt, but 5 of them had been killed. iranians pointing the finger at israel, trying to sabotage iran's nuclear program and advancement. something that has been

a point of contention for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for nearly 2 decades. so the events of tonight are a combination of years of a, this hostile relationship between iran and israel, that began in 1979. all right, so how does it was still such a body that live for us from the rain in capital to around to a set? thank you for years president joe biden has come to a weekend trip shoals and has returned to washington, d. c. a short time ago, the white house posted his response on x saying, i just met with my national security team for an update on the ron's attacks against israel commitment to as well as security against the threats and iran just proxies. is i am glad that's bringing back to our white house correspondent. kimberly how get kimberly. so 5 and rushed back. and you had this security meeting at the white house and just took us through the meeting. who wasn't it? what was said, and what's the message, more importantly, from the bottom of ministration, given this it range in retaliation us yeah.

what we know is that that meeting was link fee and it was full of the high profile members of the, by the ministration and use present jo biden's cabinet. it was the joint chiefs and staff from the pentagon. it was the defense secretary, lloyd austin, the secretary of state, and to be blinking. the ca, director bill burns, the end of the vice president campbell of harrison joined from video link as well as the us presidents of the among others. but what we should tell you is, well, there was that meeting that took place that has wrapped up in the situation room. there are unconfirmed reports coming from these really media as well as the u. s. media that the u. s. president has held a phone call with the uh is really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. now we have reached out to the white house to get confirmation of this add on. 2 waiting a read out, but what we are hearing is that the us president has held this phone call,

which has reportedly wrapped up in, in this phone call. what we are learning is that reportedly, and again, this is coming from both as really media as well as us media that the us president signaled to be is really prime minister to try and contain the conflict. and to persuade israel not to retaliate on ronnie and soil. now again, this is unconfirmed, but it is coming from both is rarely side as well as the us side. he is attempting apparently, to try and ask is real not to attack. what we can also tell you is that right now darren, what is happening here in washington as well as in new york city, is a bit of an, an easy com, if you will, just to give you kind of a sense of what it's like here in washington, there is this awareness that the us president has cut short. as you mentioned, his own vacation from delaware, he's come back to the white house and in fact,

you can't make it out behind. we of the moraine that stands outside the west wing is or has been there all evening and that indicates the view as far as it is still in the oval office. so that has left a sort of a sense of an ease it as a result. the police department, the new york city, as well as what is known as the metro police department here. washington dc or m p . d, has issued a statement saying we're closely monitoring the events in the middle east. there are no credible steps. threats at this time in d. c. still the police departments paying special attention to religious institutions, houses of worship, to maintain safety and security. so you could say there's a bit of a heightened alert or awareness is going on right now. given the events that are taking place in the middle east and you've been telling us all night. kimberly, there was some speculation that wasn't there that president bite knew about this

attack. what sort of behind the scenes, diplomatic warnings or intelligence lead biden's to believe the responsible sooner rather than later? i so that's right, so. 7 what we know is that we got a couple of indications. first of all, we heard friday morning from the national security council spoke 1st and john kirby who held a call with reporters in energy. he discussed that there were reports of an imminent attack and that there was a real and viable threat. but what the white house was not telling us was the intelligence not sharing the scale, the size and the scope of the attack. only saying that there were. c was intelligence, but there was no indication of the timing. but what the national security council was saying is that there was already movement in place that the united states had positioned is assets already in the region in order to assist israel and to

respond to these attacks that were evident from iran. in other words, retaliation for the attacks that took place on april 1st audit consulate inside damascus. now what we know is that the us president has been briefed and was brief multiple times on friday. so yesterday of here on friday, multiple times with his national security team in anticipation of what has happened to the last few hours. so what we know is that these were forced pastor changes, and we should point out that since october 7th, when from us did attack is real and take hold of, of a number of kept us, some of whom are still unaccounted for is when the united states started to position is carrier straight groups and fighter jets, etc, in the region in order to assist israel. and so these are the assets,

but the pets of god says we're. a sort of re calibrated if you will, in the region in order to prepare for what has occurred today. we should point out the pentagon did issue a statement in just the last few hours saying us forces in the region have been shooting down or ron lodge drones. targeting israel, our forces remain fostered to for dr. defense and support ad protect us forces operating in the region. and we can confirm very quickly that us and u. k. fighter jets were spotted over rocks in syria along the border there. kimberly, how could live for us the outside, the white house? kimberly many, thanks for that and loves that come back to you a little bit later in the night. that's bringing mach communities a full my system. seconds of state for political with military affairs. he served under george w bush if you want, just live from washington dc. don't commit always good to have you with us. so i think it's the 1st time we're talking to you tonight. so what do you make then? of the rang and response, how many radians now say the matter was concluded, these ladies say no, it's not the threat to still hold. well, that's

a lot of the for the uranium regime, i'm always admired. you're calculated in strategic thinking. you saw that on the costs and sort of money. you saw that out of a ron after the targeting of costs you sort of money. so clear to me that they did not they the machine did not just run till now into this decision. but they thought a true, it is strategic. it is in their mind, synchronized in their mind, it's proportional. so i think at this point, it is very clear what the ratings have done and what they've put on the chessboard . and now it's going to be very interesting to see if the on israel is respond to that. yeah, that's an interesting point. you make a mock because we're, we're just talking to kimberly, how get the correspondence of the whites out. she was saying that they've just had the bite and has spoken to mentioned yahoo! there was a sense perhaps that they are trying to roll this back and calibrate the response.

how do you see the response planning out there as well? i think you're right. i think this entire evening has been an opportunity to roll back 5 hours ago. we thought that the entire middle east was going to be a flight, said not only where they're going to be drones, but they were going to be followed by a cruise missiles going ballistic missiles and get some population centers inside of israel. what do we see now? we see a very carefully scripted a response by the reins to the killing of the eyes, your iron g c, cruise for its officers and damascus. so i think both united states is doing what they need to do. i think ron has done what it is done and quickly put out a statement of the un, but this is in their mind one and done the 1st part of this equation. israel is you have to be seen, but i certainly hope that the work being done by the national security council and

the president in his office right now is uh, they're all talking to their counterparts in israel and say, alright, announces enough what's, what's called the day tomorrow just give us a sense of some of the ministry assets that we saw at play here tonight because we saw a number of ad defense systems in use focused. so as well as a defense capabilities, we have so much about the on done system. let's not forget israel as many more air defense systems and a multitude of electronic jumping measures as well. yeah, they really do. they've got a 3 tiered system. they've got chords aren't down jacob slain, and they've got other capabilities can sort of 3 tiered for different levels. i really don't believe that it has been stretched that much in this operation over the last 5 hours. we didn't see ballistic missiles. we didn't see cruise missiles, so we didn't truly see the capabilities of israel on the spray. of course,

they were back stop. not only with their own capabilities, but the wrong air force. the united states capabilities are brought into the finance, i understanding the georgia hands and the bridge we're knocking down some of these drones as well. so is the radius. think that they have had a full test of the is really capabilities. i don't think they got that category. i don't think they wanted it. this was a demonstration in military parlance and you know that captain jordan, it wasn't meant to be an attack. it was meant to be a demonstration. yeah, a mock. i'm sorry, i'm just laughing because you know my military background, but not let me ask you it's it's, it's so easy to focus on the events of tonight's that the, the strike it. so be assets, use the damage, done the strategy behind it. what are the regional implications for things like for the production oil prices? i mean, it's not just the red sea,

this is also the persian gulf. what does this mean then for global shipping on the old market, which as we know, it was extremely difficult. a yeah, and that's the right question. we really want know that until the market is truly opened up on monday morning. i think there will be many that are called by what they saw. i take because there has been and have been a lot of jitters in the market, sort of the last few days about what the radians could in fact bring and what they could in fact respond. and this has actually been a fairly modest response. so i would hope to see perhaps some early volatility in the markets, early volatility in the insurance companies. some want to keep their oil tankers outside of the red sea. but if we don't see it for the response, i think it about a week from now, defense will be calm down to normal. mock. let me get a final thoughts on you before you die. i mean the u. s. a settled along, but it doesn't want to get dragged into why the original war and the middle east, and that a wanted an escalation open above gaza. but events currently have overtaken the us

. how involved and is the us now in terms of a whitening or the confliction of this conflict as well. let's be very clear. as i said, i did for the rainy energy, but the rainy regime, it's made it very clear that this, this is one and done us the out of this, the wild card and all this at this point is benjamin not young. and we have a president in the united states that for long standing his strong reasons that of candidly upcoming election reasons is saying that he is standing behind benjamin netanyahu and his real 100 percent. i think that's a dangerous precedent. i think his words are not helping the situation. it actually gives benjamin not yahoo at the, the, the ability to do more than if the president had said what to you with conditions. so i think the ball right now is in been, you may not know who's court,

not in the united states, not in a ranch. can it always good to get your thoughts and you want me to, to analysis here on out, is there a mock? thank you very much indeed for talking to us. frankie cam jordan. well, the right admission to the you and is issued another statement that's go to gabriel is on the now if you and a headquarters in new york, what can you tell us? good or? yeah, that's right, this is the 2nd statement that the or any emission to the un has issued this evening. the 1st one was posted on the social media site text. this is a form of a letter that we have just gotten our hands on here within the last couple of minutes or so. this is from the iranian ambassador to the u. n. a mirror site era. bonnie: this letter is sent to secretary general antonio gutierrez and ambassador vanessa frasier, who is the president of the security council for the month of april. she's the motors ambassador to the us. this is who the letter is

a sent to. i'm just going to read it because this really lays out iran's justification for what has just transpired over the last couple hours. the letter starts by just saying that uh, that uh, you ran is acknowledging a series of military strikes on is, on, is really military objectives. but then the letter goes on and these are the words verbatim. here, this action was in the exercise of the rand, inherent right to self defense, as outlined in article 51 of the charter of the united nations. and is in response to these really recurring military aggression, particularly its armed attack on 1st of april, 2024 against iranian diplomatic premises. in defiance of article 24 of the charter of united nations. the letter goes on to say, regret at believe the united nations security council has failed and its duty to

maintain international peace and security. allowing these rarely regime to transgress red lines and violate the fundamental principles of international law. such violations have have exacerbated tensions in the region and threatened regional and international peace and security as a responsible member of the united nations. the latter goes on islamic republic, as he ran is committed to the purpose and principles in finding the net charter of the un and international law and reiterates it's consistent position that it does not seek escalation or conflict in the region. i want to go on with one more paragraph of this because this is very important. the letter goes on for me, ran saying, well, warning about any further military per box provocations by these rarely regime. these womic republic, every ran, reaffirms its unwavering determination to defend its people national security and interest sovereignty and territorial integrity against any threat or acts of

aggression and to respond to any such threat or aggressions vigorously and in accordance with international law, these womic republicans, we let you rad will not hesitate to exercise its inherent right of self defense. when required, should these rarely regime commit any military aggression? again, your ends response will assuredly, and decisively be stronger and more resolute. so there was a lot to take in there, but i think it was important you heard exactly what are in news this letter, the dear indian mission has sent to the secretary general just in the last few minutes and to the security council. important to hear exactly what you ran is saying this comes in the context of also within the last half hour or so. uh, how does your able to confirm that the security council will hold an emergency meeting sunday at 4 pm new york time?

that's 20 g m t, an emergency meeting that we are told will not only be attended by of course, all 15 members of the security council. but we are also hearing from diplomatic sources that both israel and e ran will attend this sunday emergency meeting here at the security council expected to take place and the security council chambers on sunday here at un headquarters in new york. all right, gabe, that is on the line for us. they had you in headquarters, gabe. thank you. wanna keep alabama as a political analyst and contribute to these riley daily paper. hot as he says, the israel, i'm the us. we have to respond to it, runs a tax. it is. well, it is very clear that nathaniel was thinking for many years about this time of escalations. he was planning with edward barrack at the time who was a minister of defense to strike one in

a different context. the context was to stop the nuclear program. now he has even greater interest to do this because after he convinced former president trump to pull out of the nuclear agreement, no one is few weeks, maybe miles away from and your clear ball. so uh, the other thing is this one has been hiding behind. it's foxes since october 7th, and even before the behind is bala come us and the whole this and was hoping is where and funded. anyhow, this is an opportunity to go inside to go deeper into the sauce of the uh, is there any strategic issue inside the wizard? right. this is uh not the end of the game tonight. 2 and uh,

in this case, i think um is right and we would have to pay back and then uh, the superpowers will have to take, assess and be clear about how do they stop discoloration. and the, these very response has to do with as last time. if i was the townhouse public relations, he has got now the support of these ready public, which he lost in october service. nobody that he's talking now about the duck dease. nobody's talking about defense in, in gaza. it's all about you want dfcs on out find united states is willing to go. 2 what is the american leverage on iran, and how will the members of the error code, who has

a clear interest to stop you on from getting the heads your money over the me, the lease, and the how this all these literally x well jordan, iraq, 11 on an israel have old temporarily close the space and this is what the space of of the region looks like right now. and you can clearly see the areas that planes are avoiding. so there's big blank areas in the middle of your screen. all the areas where companies have closed down their space for now. so that's what it's looking like up in the sky is but back on the ground, mama jump june joins us live now from the rocky capital bank that mom, it's a rock, a full. so one of the countries announcing its close excess base, what more is being said that by officials in baghdad, the to their and the only statement that we've gotten from government officials since all the events that have transpired over the course of last night into early this morning is that statement from the civil aviation authority and the ministry of transportation stating that off the

aerospace would be closed until 5 30 am local time, which is in just about an hour from now. and they also said that that could be extended depending upon the security situation going forward. what's interesting here is the fact that there is only been this one statement from any rocky government entities. since all of this started really speaks to the fact that right off is in a bit of a bind right now, right off, of course for the last 2 decades has been really stuck between iran, which holds great influence in at off, as well as the united states and this is a particularly fraught time, not just because of what's going on between iran and israel, but also because just yesterday i adopt the prime minister and how much. yes. so

danny, left it on the left. but dad, going to washington dc where he is scheduled to meet with us president joe biden on monday to discuss not only improving bilateral relations, but also to discuss, trying to finalize a timeline for the withdrawal of us forces in or it off. that's something that more and more people in groups inside of adults have wanted to see for quite a while now, especially now when there's rising anti us sentiment. now the reason that there is rising and taught us sense of it and that it off is because, minute off, you have these groups that are under an umbrella group called the islamic resistance. and they're at off. these are paramilitary groups, armed groups that are either linked to eat on or back twice. randi is current military proxy groups that operate within 8 ok. and for the last several years, they have consistently targeted us military assets and personnel inside it up and

inside of syria and iraq, you still have around $2500.00 us military personnel in syria. you have around 900 now just to get some context as to why things have been so tense. recently since october 7th, you had around a 170 attacks by these groups that are affiliated with your stomach resistance and they're up against us assets in the region, all culminating and an attack that happened in late january like it that has been the group under the framework of the islamic resistance and they're at off targeted us based in jordan and killed 3 us military personnel after that you had retaliatory strikes by the us on these groups, killing some of their commanders. and since early february you had a sort of unofficial ceasefire. this taken place because it was pressure that was put on these groups not to try to expand the hostilities they wanted to try to deescalate tensions. and there haven't been attacks against us military assets. so one of the questions going into yesterday evening when it became clear and clear

that you're on was going to launch these retaliatory strikes towards israel, is would these parent military proxy groups inside of it off be participating in any of these attacks? now there is no official confirmation that that was the case. none of these groups have claimed responsibility that they part took in any of the attacks against israel. there was only one is that you and by one leader of one of those groups who posted on social media that he was expressing support for the attacks against it on . but the question has remained. will these groups get involved going forward? had they been involved in preparations of the attacks, these are all very big questions here at off at a very fraud time. and at a time really that couldn't be worse for the prime minister as he's heading into this meeting with joe biden. the so it's all right read showing you how tens the situation remains. how much of a bind it off because in right now and the fact again that we haven't heard anything official from at oxy officials up until this point, really speaks to the fact that they do feel caught between those 2 countries.

darren, all right, so i'm on a junction life as the in the rocky capital bank. that mohammed thank you. and it's bringing again, david ross, she's an associate professor at the national defense university, joins us live from washington, dc. a david. so events have been happening sick and fast overnight, but let's just wrap things also up and give us your response to ron's retaliation. how surprised on you 1st that iran use this unprecedented direct attack robin? it's proxies and do you think you run calibrate to this attack? so it's not to generate a huge response from his ro, as uh, well, i am surprised that they do it. uh, what they did was they gave up a significant amount of strategic benefit by, by doing this. because quite frankly, people are more afraid of your ron when it looked like they had the potential because of serious damage. now uranium narrative, when people talk about the effectiveness of the mail, so it's going to be, well, we held back and i think there's going to be an element of doubt. did you really hold back? we won't know if they held back or not for a few days,

we're gonna have to look at what was targeted and what damage was actually inflicted. my 2nd point on this is that it appears as though you know you're on did the telegraph. it's punches considerably that this is more of a demonstration than a, an attempt to, you know, launch of a fatal attack. because, you know, as they're un and bass are pointed out, you know, they want to basically let this be the end of it. i don't know if that's possible. the enemy gets a vote. we say in the army and you did to captain. but i think that what we find is that, you know, we'll look at it tomorrow. we'll see what's going on. i think the biggest loser here is that and i'm not sure if you're wrong, really counter dis. they took the focus now want garza and so i think that the narrative is going to shift. and i think that the pressure that had been building

on the israel to restrain from further actions in gaza that may have been lifted as a result of this attack. yeah, i'm gonna stay with gauze up for a 2nd then david. mean, what do you think's going to happen now as a focus shifted from gaza to iran? israel, what does that mean for the prosecution of the war and does and does that because the pressure is off nothing. yahoo does not then give them the green light to do whatever they want in gaza as well. i said, i think they can do. i think they will be able to do what they want, but not in the way they want to do it. so i think that their freedom, an actual be somewhat limited, but i've come to that conclusion. i could be wrong that you know who cannot survive unless he completely destroys the military infrastructure of casa, in order to do that, he has to occupy russell. so. ready i think that they will do that now and i think that, you know, perhaps the price will be not, you know, who will say, ok, we'll, we'll take this as the end of it rather than respond in kinds to iran. and then,

you know, finishes. i think what he views this is strategic imperative to militarily destroy moss and gaza. we know from a white house correspondent to who we just spoke to just before you came to the present invite and spoke to apartments in at yahoo, i guess to try and de conflict this crisis. but i wanted to spot out of control, i guess remedies out of control already. but i mean, how do you see these randy responds playing out as well? depends on what the damage is. um, i think i think that there, there is a strong possibility that the us release will seal, that they have to respond in some symbolic way that they can't allow a mass of attack like this to go unanswered. however, uh, you know, when you look at what israel has on its plate, it's quite possible that you know, the negotiations will go. ready you know, with the united states, which doesn't want to see an expanded regional conflict. ok,

we're going to let this be that there hasn't been serious damage, but we do have to achieve our strategic goals and gaza. so i think that the um, you know, if, if it plays out like that then the, the cerini and attack will ultimately have some really backfired on their efforts to keep the israel restrain from its actions and rasa. yeah, that's interesting. just a final thoughts you did before you go with it is easy, is it not to, to focus on the events of tonight's iran's retaliation against israel? can we just ask and i'll just talk to a final kind of g, a political consideration here. what are the originally but nations, but things like all the productions or the prices? i mean, it's not just the red sea, there's also the persian gulf. what does this mean that the globe of shipping the oil market, which is by sticklers unit? yeah. well, the, the, the quote i always say is, capital is a coward. so i think that we're likely to see uh, you know, short term hiking oil prices. i think that we're likely to see short term increases

in maritime shipping when we've, you know, the story of the is really seizure of a cargo ship going. india is incomplete. ready loss, i'm sorry, the iranian seizure has been completely lost in this you know, what they're comfortable there, but so you know, in the person's office of safe place and countries of the persian gulf i think are going to see that. ready is harder and more expensive to get goods in and out of there, at least in the short term. all right, david, are russia associate professor at the national defense university live there from washington, dc. david, good to have you with us with that. talk to you throughout the morning. thank you. now is really honest. folks went down, know how guy he says more than 200 rooms and missiles were launched from there on the majority of what your interest. after tonight, ron launched a large scale of coordinated attack on israel. the regime in iran fired a massive swarm over $200.00 killer drones, cruise missiles and bodies. take me sides towards the state of israel. together we

thought allies and partners across the region. we're operating at this very moment to defend israel from your arms with tech sofa. we have intercepted the vast majority of incoming me sides by eas, rarely, systems, sofa. we have intercepted and i'll continue to insist that to intercept dozens of a tech drones as well as cruise me, science and body sticking me says outside of these was boulder and i'm the for any . and me says, fin inside is really territory called causing minor damage to a military base with no casualties. only one little girl has been hurt and we hope she will be when on the run in a tech is ongoing. our plans are in the 2 nights white scale

attack by iran is a major escalation together. we thought it lies in partners. we are operating if it were operating at full force to defend the state of israel and the people of these red. and we will continue to fulfill this mission. so let's bring in a house, i'm but all right, who is a professor of international affairs at the castle university? has him go daddy back with us. okay, so as things stand at the moment pass on, let's just talk about where we are now. and events have been moving sick and fast, and very quickly. these ratings have already downgraded their lot levels. it seems that the threat for now at least, is gone. we were thinking of it, it could have been a multi layered attack, a multi faceted attack. it seems like it could be a one and done as a, as i guess have been saying, what did you make of tonight's events or you think it is very important point that we have to remember all the time that they read. it does have made their point, they sent the message to these radius to the international community that they have

the capability to strike in his room. and they did that. and that's it for them simply because they don't want to do the want to is guess could i have this and probably the things that snowboard and to region the war and there's nothing to interest over the area and for the time being. uh, so this one thing a 2nd thing is that the iranians are cutting civility around the world here, especially and in then in this region that everyone would pay price if there's writers target. and they say that, you know, next time, if there's a way to do anything with this would be even the tech would be ready to shop. and this would then implicate probably everyone in this part of the, of these 22 points are very important from the reading perspective. from of these really one i think they're really maybe happy that the attack came of the way they did simply because it doesn't cause any damage that would embarrass the it right either ship. but at the same time, they want to capitalize and they want to take advantage of that either by putting

a lot of pressure to your on a and, and this entails a lot of also coordination with united states. but at the same time, they want to have a trade off for the americans. if you don't want us to, to tell you we need to have a free hand and guess how some so. so how do you think to, how do you see it? is there any response playing out then? i mean, this attack has happened with this thing to downtown, the garbage is ready spokesperson, as saying that the threat to still that even though they're low at the lower level, we know that president biden spoken at yahoo at a short time ago to try and d, conflict to tip tip to calibrate the response to how do you see this way, the response playing out. you know, it to me is to be seen. i can do different this with these readers are going to probably the do something. are they gonna talk to some iranian interest in, in syria and lebanon, and maybe inside the run. but it would be also calculated then by just simply put it onto the approval korean or. but at the same time, these rate would be looking for 2 things. a, the one in the americans to give them the free hand or the green light to go into,

into a farm. but secondly, they went to international committee to lower and, and then probably turned down there to take of this lady conductors of war. so they want to be seen as the victim is the oldest. so then his reading level was the um, then ended up being attacked by a country that is probably 2000 to get them. it goes away for nothing, you know, for them is and provoked and the fact that the condemnation that came from western capitals like london and america, and also the secretary general with united states united nation, it gives, there's really the feeling that for the 1st time, you know the city is seen as a victim, and then by, by this they want to capitalize and try to realize that objectives in probably a way that would be to see the list. cookies and even with infinity. yeah. and that's an important point you're making, and it breaks the question i've been asking, i guess all night. so what, what does it leave the world in a gospel?

because in, in dramatic fashion, the focus now has shifted away from gaza. what happens now in terms of how the boys prosecuted and how these ladies will then continue mendoza. and given the response, we seem to know there's something about the mindset of, there's a resent, there's a collective mindset. so when are they attacked? they see that they have the right to do whatever they want to do. and now the focus now on your right. and there's the probably this will give them as a way to inflict more damage on now and guidance. and they feel that now they are, i have more liquid fight to control the door that the way they want it to continue with. this could be a cause in from anyone. i think we're going to see probably more efficient guys and, and pass on that with just the final thoughts you before you go. i mean, there was serious strains in that relationship between president biden and yahoo, over the war and gaza. do you think now those differences, to some extent,

where we put aside in effect netanyahu has paid already cut because it hasn't been what he has been playing freely. and the smart way in may and one of his in interviews he was saying that 2 is the only one who would be able to many pretty the american president. and there has been doing this for a long time. and there's something person to between both of them, but in the state to state relationship. i think the american civil committed to the right of security and the american president, he's not really happy with the the way as well as conducting to the war. but he can't afford standing against nothing, you know, and is ready to government and you over the action and as 5 and then americans, right. all right, so it has some very, really good to get your thoughts on your analysis. thank you very much for staying with us all night. pretty much so. thank you. thank you for that. all right, it's got some different logic reaction now that you use for an policy cheap just at bar the least the following statement on the x, he said that e, you strongly condemned the unacceptable lorraine and attack against israel. this is unprecedented escalation and a grave threat to regional security, but

u. k. has been a firm supporter of israel. the british prime minister research to knock has reacted by saying, i condemn in the strongest terms the reigning machines attack against israel. iran has once again demonstrated that isn't it is intent on selling chaos in its own back yard and the u. k. will continue to stand up for as well, security and for all our regional partners, including jordan and iraq. long so the allies, we are urgently working to stabilize the situation and prevent further escalation. no one wants to see more legit. let's bring in one or bonnie, he's committed to of jelia. he joins us from montreal moving. i think it's the 1st we've spoken to you tonight. so then your response to this iranian retaliation. well, i think we have to go back to the beginning of the binders, ministration and 2 key decisions that made to understand what's unfolding today. the 1st is that i refuse to simply rejoined the com. i wrote the wrong nuclear agreement, which trump have to use

a lot of really renounce. and the 2nd is it the strategic neglect of, of the palestine question in favor of airbus rarely normalization agreements. the that would seek to marginalize the cost indians that set the stage for october 7th . after october 7th, the us once again had a clear choice either de, escalate or give israel a free hand. and with every passing day, the possibility of regional escalation grew and indeed happens. and it is in that context that we are now seeing for the 1st time, a state and a regular army name with the wrong get directly involved in the current more bite and has been saying don't to the wrong hands don't to has been the don't to the you one security council don't to everyone except as result, he now has a choice. he can either say don't to israel or we face the prospect of further

escalation and potentially a full scale regional war. i'm doing just remind of you as if you will, why iran responded in this way. i mean, because around so the damascus attack as a direct assault on its territory on it's a southern to do, they have no option, but to respond in this way. a well, it's not only that the wrong side is a direct attack on the southern territory. it was in fact and in law, a direct attack on sovereign iranian territory. and the ronnie ends for the 1st time in their 30 year, a so called shadow war with israel decided to respond directly from iranian territory against his really territory in order to from their perspective, deter, further such on is really attacks. and i think, you know, the rules of the game has essentially been changed that the wrong has indicated that from now on. it will respond to every israeli attack on the run with

a direct attack on israel. what about 10000000 that the, the duplicity, hey, i mean, the americans, the security council, didn't even the didn't even appeal. in fact, iran said if a security council had acknowledge and apologize, then this wouldn't have happened, but nobody apologized. well that's, that's the key point. the iranians took their case to the united nations security council in what is an unambiguous crystal clear violation of international law. and if the vienna convention and so on, the united states not only failed to condemn israel for us to talk on the around the end of the consulate in damascus. it blocked a condemnation of that attack by the united nations security council. i think in lee, what's the united kingdom and perhaps france as well. and then one out of its way to say it stands shoulder to shoulder with israel. and essentially, whatever 1 may think of what the wrong has done tonight that les to be wrong with

no choice but to respond because it couldn't point to any other measures that were taken in response to these really attacking the task is, or just a final thought to you, in terms of the united states, so set, so the us to settle along that, but it didn't want to get dragged into a wider war in the middle east that never wanted an escalation open above casa, but offense, pretty much have overtaken the us. how now then, is that us involved in any potential whitening of the conflict or any d confliction of the conflict? well that's, i think the contradiction in us policy that the united states has from the outset been very clear that it does not want for the regional escalation. but it has at the same time, essentially given as real, a green light to continue escalating regionally and only directed its message that others. and then more importantly because it's it now again, it stands before

a clear choice because this is all tied directly to israel's genocide. a long slot in the gaza strip and so long as the united states refuses to say don't to israel and, and the possibility of further regional escalation, which see us consistently says it is tough trying to prevent it becomes very real right? to move in or a body that live up from montreal mean always good to have you with us on to 0. thank you very much indeed for your analysis as well for i do is we just joining us here on out here. we're considering our special coverage of a ron's retaliate to attack on israel. it's just coming up to 200 gmc just shy of of 200 discontinued because of the days of stress. iran has launched it. switch on the i to attack on israel. he's ready say more than 200 drums ballistic and cruise missiles, while doing stuff in the country. the majority of which was intercepted,

the airbag simon sounded in more than $720.00 locations for hours of an item. the rockets were into separate across the country to around says the strikes are in response to israel's bombing of the ringing consulate in syria. as we have a minute trip to our residents, your time is now to hear that we thought a lies in boston is across the region. we are operating at this very moment to defend these red familiar arms attack. so far we've intercepted the vast majority of incoming these signs by eas, rarely, systems sofa. we have intercepted and i'll continue to insert the 2 intercept dozens of tech drones as well as crews. mit signs and bodies degree sized outside of these words, both the and number of for any and me says friend inside is really territory call

causing minor damage to a military base with no casualties.