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sir. they'll only be compensated if white star and its employees are found negligent. you did not respond, "we are sinking. and our passengers and our crew are in danger. what agreement with the military? war, miss ricard, war. rated pg >> check it out at shine.com. >> i'm paula reid in washington and this is cnn >> according to cnn newsroom, i'm jim sciutto in washington. we begin tonight with breaking news and fears of a wider war is israel considers its next move following an on president, that attack on israel by iran late saturday night around launched a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones against israel, calling it a response to a deadly israeli strike on
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the iranian consulate in damascus earlier this month, israel's military says with the help of its partners, including the us and the uk, it intercepted some 99% of more than 300 missiles and drones and other projectiles launched by iran israeli war cabinet, ended a meeting today without reaching a decision, but determined to act. one member saying, israel will quote, exact a price at the time of its choosing, president biden met virtually with g7 leaders today to discuss what he calls quote, an urgent diplomatic response and late lab as night biden spoke with israeli prime minister netanyahu over the phone reaffirming the us is ironclad commitment to its ally, but making it clear, the us will not i participate in any israeli attack against iranian territory right now, un security council is holding an emergency meeting. un secretary general rule called for restraint now is the time to
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diffuse and the escalates now is the time for maximum restraint >> we have a team of reporters here in washington and around the world tracking all of the latest developments we begin with cnn's international diplomatic edited, nic robertson. robertson in jerusalem nick, know the range of responses that israel is considering right now and if they'll abide by biden's pressure not to strike inside iranian territory yeah, it's a very difficult question for the israeli war cabinet at the moment because it gets to the heart of >> how israel has handled all threats in the region until now, which is to deter the opponent from, from trying again. and this is precisely what the white house is guiding against, which is an
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escalation, which around us said it will respond to the war cabinet. what it meant today, a very small war cabinet that it is benny gantz along with the prime minister. and you go and the defense minister their head of mossad, david barnea, was there as well. we also saw that the army chief of staff general herzi halevi, was present. i think this is a slight broadening of what we normally see in the war cabinet. and then of course three others were there as well. the sort of observers thetas. but what the resolve is at the moment appears to be two bide time a little bit and consider the move and i think this indicates that any impetuous sense that there was a need to respond immediately. that's been set to one side to consider how allies and parks might be bought on board. and that was something we heard separately from your i've gone the defense minister speaking
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separately after his conversation with us secretary of defense, lloyd austin talking about building a broader coalition of partners in the region. so it does seem to be that whatever the next move is going to be on the war cabinet is determined that there will be a move against iran, but the scope and scale of it should it be the maximalist? a deterrence style that israel is used in the past, which is to show absolutely sort of break all the crockery if you will or will there be something that's more defined and definitive that will perhaps try to, as we've heard from israeli officials today, to encourage allies and pi but knows to designate the irgc as a terrorist organization and trying to build a coalition around iran's bigger threat to the region >> of course one man's deterrents can be another's
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offensive attack. it all is and how each side reads each of these moves. i want to ask you, nick, about your sense of if there is disagreement within the israeli war cabinet, we know there is no love lost between, between some of the partners in that very cabinet itself. is there a sense there, there is unity on this response, or perhaps disunity disagreement, debate the fact that there's no >> definitive outcome tends to speak to a level of disunity and we know that the divisions exist over how to handle how to handle the conflict in gaza at the moment, how to handle the humanitarian support for the palestinians in gaza, how to handle the release of the hostages and their situation seems to be no different at the moment. there are those that want wanted a very immediate response, but the clear pressure coming from the white house and president biden's
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conversation where prime minister netanyahu does seem to have sort of bought in a level of pores and consider the next move. but precisely the breakdown within that cabinet. it's very hard to know, but the fact that they still need more time to to make a determination that i think is indicative of the lack of unity of opinion. jim robertson. thanks so much. we'll come back to you regularly this evening. i'm going to turn now to the white house, priscilla alvarez, their priscilla, that there was some reporting earlier in the day that it at least biden administration officials have the sense israel not want to expand the war in the region. is there a read that you're hearing from the white house as to where israel stands on next steps well, that's certainly the case. >> james senior administration official telling >> reporters that israel doesn't want to escalate. that is what they have told us officials and the focus at the white house for months now, but especially in this moment, is
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for the conflict not to escalate in the region for there not to be a broader regional conflict. and that is the risk that they are trying to contain. it was part of the discussion on president biden had with g7 liters earlier this morning when they discuss a united diplomatic response. in other words, trying to find non-military actions here let me read you part of the statement that was released by the g7 liters and said, quote, with its actions, i ran has further step toward the destabilization of the region and risks provoking and uncontrollable regional escalation. this must be avoided. we will continue to work to stabilize the situation and avoid further escalation part of that, of course, is that the us will not participate in any offensive action that is taken by israel. that is what president biden told is prime minister benjamin netanyahu in his call with him last night. it is also what senior national security members have relayed to their israeli counterparts because the assessment from the us up until this point is that israel
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was largely successful year there was no major damage on their infrastructure and so they are essentially saying, take the win here and let's not escalate the situation any further. especially when tensions are already so heightened in the middle east. but the big question is whether these really prime minister decides to take president biden's guidance. there's an acknowledgment that he is also facing political pressure back at home. and as we have seen with the war in gaza, there have often been rips between president biden and the israeli prime minister on next steps. so the big question at this hour here at the white house is what israel decides to move forward. but the message that the white house has been sending out at least today, is that they certainly do not want to see this escalate and the us will not participate in any offensive action here priscilla alvarez. thanks so so much for joining me now someone who led bucks over the coverage of this last night as the attack unfolded, brock ravid, his cnn analyst, also political reported for axios baraka,
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davion hi jim so that is the us position. no offensive action against iran and the us will not take part in such action. has that pressure landed? in other words, is israel's war cabinet prepared to abide by that pressure yes and no, meaning you see that for now, they didn't take a decision on a retaliation, >> but this doesn't mean that this won't happen. maybe even relatively soon. in the next few days, there are more things to consider cidr when you decide on a timing for such an attack other than what the biden administration says, you things like the weather, other operational issues. so i think the jury's still out on when and how an if such retaliation, will take place in the cabinet
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meeting, the war cabinet meeting today, they discuss several options this thing could look like on the one hand, as a overt kinetic action like airstrikes with f 35s, but it can also look like things that israel did before like covert operation that israel never took responsibility for. so i think it is still unclear exactly which path you're going to choose. >> that's good point when you look at attacks, for instance, on iran nuclear facilities, much debate over that through the years, pressure from the us. then you had these series of targeted assassinations of nuclear engineers as opposed to a kinetic strike. >> i wonder when you >> look inside that war cabinet same question i asked of nic robertson just a few minutes ago. is there a unity i mean, there's some reporting that at least one member of the cabinet won't meet with netanyahu alone because he doesn't trust him. i mean, is there open conflict within the cabinet about how to proceed from here
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>> well, there's an open conflict within the cabinet are almost everything i have to remember that almost all the members of this cabinet are also political rivals. but i'll give you an anecdote. but what happened last night as israel received the initial information that the iranians launched, the drones ministers benny gantz and gadi eisenkot, both of them from the same party, both of them former idf chiefs of staff came and told netanyahu and minister of defense gallant and the other war cabinet ministers. >> let's >> conduct are retaliation now, even before the iranian drones arrive at israeli airspace, why first, because as time passes, we'll it'd be under more and more international pressure not to do anything. and more importantly, if we do it now,
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it will combine with the iranian attack so that the iranians will not have to retaliate again for our counter-offensive. and then we can try and like sort of conclude this incident all in one piece and prevent escalation. what happened then is that biden spoke on the formula tania, and this discussion will sort of put on hold. and after the call, the decision was, let's wait another day and decision then as you know, benjamin netanyahu is under competing pressures. much of those political pressures, including from his further right flank national security minister ben gvir. here's what he had to say earlier today. >> israel's response must not be weak in the style of the dune bombings, we start in previous years in gaza. the concepts of containment and proportionality are concepts that passed away on 7 october. >> in >> order to create deterrence in the middle east. the landlord must go crazy the
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landlord must go crazy. is that the kind of pressure netanyahu feels compelled to listen to at this point >> well, i have to tell you that some members of the war cabinet, when they heard this comment, asked is this landlord not crazy already you know, it's i think a lot of what has happened in over the last year happened because of things that mr. ben-gvir and his i'm calling from the same party minister of finance, but sell a small teach. did and i think this is the reason that last night when the security cabinet convened, it passed a vote that basically authorizes netanyahu garland and gantz to take all the decisions alone about the retaliation, which means that
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the more radical right-wing ministers like ben-gvir and smart bridge. were sidelined and have zero influence on where distinct we'll go from now on on the military side before we go 99% of hundreds of missiles and drones that were fired were shot down in this both a victory for israeli defenses, but also for the help that it received from the us, the uk, which shot down a great number as well. >> did this. >> and i wonder if there's a view and >> israel did this exposed weaknesses in iran's both offensive and defensive capabilities i think what a lot of people in israel saw is and by the way, it's not only the us and the uk, it was also >> jordan, who's also saudi arabia so a lot of people see that a netanyahu's claim for years that israel will defend itself by itself i think it was, it's been revealed that
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it's null and void this is not the case, especially when it comes to israel's dependence on the united states and on the us military that's first and second what we saw yesterday in a way, if there's some silver lining here is that this regional security architecture really worked yesterday and managed to counter this uranium attack. and this shows you how things can look like not only when it comes to regional security, but a lot, but on a lot of other things because there are a lot of countries in the region that want to work together with israel this is how we got to the abraham accords this is how we got to this regional security architecture that started at last for the last year of the trump administration, continued and strengthen doing the biden administration and i think you can see the opportunity here
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and the question is if the current israeli government is capable of doing the steps needed to take this opportunity its notable, as you said, that it wasn't just a us, uk, and of course israel, but, but era partners, they're not advertising it right now. but error partners such as jordan that took part in this this as well. barack ravid, good, heavy on. thanks so much >> thank you so much >> just the head we're taking a closer look at israel's defensive capabilities and how well they are expected to hold up against any possible. future attacks plus israel was not alone. as we shed in fending off israel's massive barrage, the role of the us, other western allies, other arab allies played in protecting israel. and we'll congress now act and pass a new round of aid, not just for israel, but ukraine and title he won following this a cat tak, it's been waiting for months just for a vote will have an update, will be back in just a moment
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response and defense against these strikes. israel says, with the help of the us, britain, and france, as well as other partners, nearly all the missiles and drones fired at israel were shot down. seed and national security correspondent natasha bertrand joins me now from the pentagon a tasha we just learned that us defense secretary lloyd austin spoke with an idf official today about this joint response, but but i'm curious about this advance warning in effect, is the reporting here that iran in effects telegraphed that these strikes were coming >> will senior administration officials on a call earlier today with reporters, they pushed back very strongly on the notion that iran issued any kind of warning to the region about just what it was going to do. because according to us officials, are ron intended for its missile and drone attack on israel to cause significant get damage and injuries on the ground. and so officials are saying that israel or that ron did not intend to send any kind of warning to allies or two
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partners in the region or anyone in the region that could then allow them to move out of the way, for example. but of course, our new reporting suggests that iran did tell turki what some of the options might be before a retaliatory strike. and then in turn, turkey and formed the united states. >> now, we >> know that leading up to this attack, the us had a really good picture, intelligence picture of what iran might be planning to do. that picture shifted a little bit as last week war on, earlier in the week, us officials predicted that it was likely that iranian proxies were going to play a very large role in some kind of retaliatory strike on israel. but that it was unlikely that iran itself would get directly involved. however, as the week more on, it became clear, as the us began seeing missiles and drones being moved around inside iran that iran was clearly planning for something, whether that was going to be a first strike, are planning for some kind of retaliation by the us and israel in response to its strike. and so the us became convinced later on in the week that iran was planning
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something that included perhaps an attack from its territory. so the timing of this, the scope parties involved the weaponry involved, including the drones and missiles the us had a pretty good idea of well in advance, and that is why they were able to position some pretty key assets in the region, including us navy destroyers, including additional fighter aircraft to help take down whatever came israel's way yes, certainly allowed time for preparation. natasha bertrand the pentagon. thanks so much for joining me now, military a-list, us-centric leighton first to that question there. what does that sound like to you if iran communicated to turki about options, it was considering it would know turkey's n80 ally that turki might pick up the phone and call washington and say here what we're hearing is that deliberate? >> i think it is driven by the way i look at it after i heard that reported was like, yeah, the uranium is we're clearly sending us signal to the us through the turks. like you
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said, they're turkey as data, ella, and the big thing here is that we have so many different different elements. this is, this is turkey right here. bordering iran. and the main thing that the turks do, of course, is they have an integrated defense system with us and they've had a relationship with us as well, even though that relationship is it's been rocky of late. but the uranium knew that they were going to talk to the us. and i think clearly when did you telegraph this? >> as i as i understand it, this defense was multi-pronged, multi-part multiple partners coming from several directions. you have israel here, of course you had us assets in the eastern mediterranean us assets down here in the red sea. i'm not sure in the persian gulf as well? yes. the involved there were certainly assets and it's pretty clear to me that is specifically at led to airbase in qatar. they would probably have been involved possibly out of kuwait as well. >> and we believe jordan fired as well. so that that gives you a sense of the net of defenses that were able to shoot down
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these missiles and drones as they were coming from iran? >> absolutely. and they had, this is about 1,000 miles from here to here. i they had that whole area in which to actually see what was going on and actually take a look at the different, different types of projectiles here, you had 170 drones, over 120 ballistic missiles, 30 cruise missiles. in fact, 70 of those drones, i, as we've reported, i were shot down by the us assets so that really does make a big difference. >> drones don't fly particularly fast. >> no, they do >> they give you time and by the way, cruise missiles there faster, but you could see them when i was a ukraine, i could see them in the sky. you could pick them out that gave time to target and defend. >> absolutely gave time because that 1,000 mile distance right here, jim, that gives you time to do this now one key thing though, is when you look at for example, i, what is happening here. this is gun camera footage from the idf as they are blowing a drone out of the sky from and by the way, we know that fighter jets were involved, not just israelibut us five ghter jets. d i
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believe british fighter jets as well. that's coect. and there were other assets that were out there then of course, they have that capability than with the iron dome. of course, you have the capability to shoot things it's down from the ground, so you've got air assets that are engaged in this and you've got ground assets as part of this air defense network that the israelis have. the iron dome being the short range version. they have to other systems that do medium and long-range. and those systems of course, provided an entire picture for everybody. and the arrow which, which shoots down ballistic >> missiles that's the highest altitude defense as well. i mean, that involves shooting down a missile that went into space. that's right. and what's interesting about this is that there were so many ballistic missiles. these are the quickest ones. these are the ones that can basically cover this distance within a few minutes. write the drones take up too. nine hours to reach this particular distance, depending on the specific drone. and then of course you have cruise missiles. they take about two hours or so depending. >> but let me ask you this because there's been talk for
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for years about iran's missile capabilities, not just fired from iran, but also fired from, say, an iranian proxy here in lebanon. where were they had many thousands of them and the concern had been so many whether it's from lebanon here, of course, as ryleigh, hamas has its own rocket capability then from iran, so many that they would be able to ovwhelm raeli defens th shoyou a shortcoming? does >>es, i think oes show a shortcoming on the part of the iranians because ty did try too what amounted to a swarm attack when you look at the quantity that w're dealing with here, you can see that there are so many different things that the iranians could have done it they thought they could overwhelm the system. but because of these kinds of things happening, we were able to actually intercept this are the israelis were able to intercept this in this particular case, and they were able to take out a really, really large proportion of both the drones and the message. >> and what strikes me throughout this is that this is
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exactly the kind of attack that ukraine is enduring every day from russia, a mix of drones and missiles and cruise missiles with far more limited defenses by the way shortages. now, some of these air defense missiles, absolutely. and one of >> the key things to think about here, everybody talks about ukraine going it alone and doing those kinds of things that the israeli, remember the israelis had a very sophisticated air defense system, a three-layered defense system, as we talked about and they had a lot of help in doing it. so if you want the ukrainians to be as successful as the israelis are several factors involved here. they have a lot more space to deal with. but if you want them to be accessible, you need to help them. and that's the difference here. >> you certainly don't have us or uk assets directly shooting down russian missiles and drones coming in even as they devastate that ukrainian cities. cedric leighton, thanks so much as always the gym the white house is using iran's attack to try and light a fire under congress to keep sending aid not just to israel, but also ukraine and taiwan is a
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rafael romo, the georgia state capitol in atlanta. this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by mesobook.com her firm only represents mesothelial of victims and their families. if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call us now the night wondering from conservative hardliners to the house republican speaker, don't pair any >> israel aid with aid for ukraine or taiwan, which by the way, has broad support from members of both parties. cnn, capitol hill reporter melanie zanona joins me now. for the latest, there's new urgency to approve more aid for israel in light of this attack. but not to pass the supplemental that
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already passed the senate with large bipartisan support, which has that aid as well as aid for ukraine and taiwan. so what happens now? >> well, mike johnson is walking a very tricky tight rope right now when it comes to ukraine and israel and congress is really divided i did over how to proceed. in one corner, there are bipartisan calls, including from gop leader mitch mcconnell, including from some of johnson's own republican committee chairman in the house, to just put that senate pass foreign aid package on the floor arguing that is the fastest way to get aid to israel. as a reminder, that does include money for israel, taiwan, and ukraine brain and if the house were to pass it, it could go immediately to biden's desk for signature, but you just do it in the other corner. he is facing calls from hardline conservatives to not tie those two issues together and just pass a standalone what's their argument? >> well, with >> marjorie taylor-greene, for example, she just doesn't don't want to provide any money to ukraine. she's also been skeptical of money to israel as well, but they don't like to have these big packages, these hardline conservatives. they like to separate them. typically on principle. but there's major
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questions about whether even a standalone israel bill could pass the house and whatever they do, they would send have to send it back to the senate we're again, there's a question of whether it would pass. now, johnson did say he is going to put some type of israel aid bill on the floor this upcoming week. but he said those details are still not yet finalized. i was checking in with sources just before i came on and he said he is still not made a decision yet. we should also know that johnson did have a call with the other top four congressional leaders with president biden, two thus, the ongoing situation in the middle east. so he is facing competing pressures from all sides right now. >> so if he blinks again, which by the way, he's done multiple times by the accounts of members of the democratic and republican party is a discharge position still ally petition where whereby the house could go around him. >> so that is a very tricky procedural tool and it actually takes time. so that might not be the best option. but if johnson does fail to do anything on the subject, there have been some republicans who would warn that they would sign
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on to this democratic tool, which essentially would force a floor vote on that senate aid package. but at this moment, what these bipartisan lawmakers are saying within the senate and the house, or just put the senate bill. yeah, that's where but again, the reason why for a long time, right? the reason why johnson hasn't yet and probably won't is because his job is on the line and marjorie taylor greene has threatened to force them out of the speakership if he were to move ahead with that now, let isn't on a thanks so much for joining me now for more former state department middle east negotiator, aaron david middle miller. good to have you back we had a good chat last night. i want to ask you where things stand in in your view in terms of how israel is likely to respond to this, you have some quite public pressure from the us the president saying do not strike iranian territory directly. the us will not be involved. it will not help you through this does israel does bibi netanyahu listened to that pressure? >> he's not alone decision maker in this gym. and thanks for having to think
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>> to work cabinets divided >> i think >> probably been against is actually already made, is used clear >> there's a >> consensus on the need to respond among the five and decision-makers. the other two are observers i think there's some discrepancy or disagreement over the timing of a response escaped and the scale of the response. bet against made a statement today earlier today in which he said he wanted a regional response i think he uses the word alliance and effort isolate around what that means is unclear >> i >> think greatest sort of argument that the israelis will probably make in terms of why they would need to respond. was tied to a statement that the head of the irgc, ryan revolutionary guard made today in which he said we created a new point of departure here any israeli strike on any word, any
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iranian assets, interests citizen, or official. >> i think that's an exact quote will be met with an attack by iran on israeli territory. now, is that bluster? i think these israelis somehow feel the need to restore if it's even relevant any longer, i don't know if it is some measure of deterrence and to remind iran that just cannot become the new normal against that or all the arguments you and i know possibilities of escalation deepening of juran's efforts to their already nuclear weapons threshold state the possibility that an israeli attack, if it's large enough, could push the iranians to web actually to weaponize i suspect the wait awhile. they're riding a pretty positive diplomatic wave right now.
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>> there are some in the region who argue israel should see this attack as a strategic opportunity. explain that to us >> strategic opportunity. well, pocketing the fact that 350 missiles of varying ranges in the thalamus failed to penetrate strike israeli targets you had cooperation the middle east air defense alignment that appear to be working and a lot of unnamed partners here on the arab sayyed states role jordan you, >> the whole notion of sanctioning israel or restricting or conditioning military assistance. that's gone the way of the dodo. >> you had a g7 statement which >> was the most pro-israeli statement. i think the g7 may have ever actually announced. >> so >> in that respect, i think
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that the israelis are aaron in pretty good position the problem is that this rivalry with iran is going to continue. these palestinian hamas war in gaza house is going to continue seems to be a strategic cul-de-sac know hostages in the offing >> so i think >> there's still a lot of uncertainties and there may be a few more shoes to drop gym. >> that's issuing point because after october 7, the biden administration intention was to make it a regional response of a biden was going to go not just to israel, but to amman, bring that together, that fell apart very quickly here you had error partners participating in this defense, perhaps an opportunity. we'll have to see aaron david miller. thanks so much. >> thank you. >> we're gonna more on the breaking news when we come back with jake cadbury weekdays at four on cnn is a hot flash this
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learning that russia and around their foreign ministers discussed the situation during a phone call earlier. that is quite a close relationship. what do we know about that? did russia express support for arounds attack >> they essentially express support for the iranians and said they wanted to make the relations between the two countries better. there was very little i mentioned actually of the actual attack by the iranians against the israeli. so certainly doesn't seem as though the russian's in any way, shape, or form critical of the iranians. of course, we know that there is military cooperation apparently between russia and iran. iran supplying some things that the russians badly need in their battle against the ukrainian forces. and so they are very close allies indeed. and if you look at the readout, jim, of the call between sergey lavrov and the iranian foreign minister. then you compare that, for instance, to the readout of the call between the iranian foreign minister and the german foreign minister. the two of them spoke by phone today as well. the german
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foreign minister, actually the first opening line from that readout is that the german foreign minister absolutely condemned iran's attacks on on israel, saying that it was dangerous for the entire region. certainly, the iranians have been saying they didn't follow very closely some of the messaging that we've been getting out of terror from a gym. and i think that there's three main messages that the, that the iranians are trying to send now, they were saying that this retaliation is now over and it's up to the israelis where things go next but they're also saying that there actually has been a strategic shift on the part of the iranians. and that if there are forces or any of their personnel are attacked by israel, again, that once again, there will now always be retaliation coming from iran. i want to listen into some of what the the head of the irgc, these i'm revolutionary guard-core had to say it's listening >> him good if we decided to create a new equation, that is, if the zionist regime attacks
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our interests, assets personalities, and citizens at any point, we will attack them from the islamic republic of iran the honest promise operation is a prominent and very clear example of this new equation >> that's a pretty big >> shift coming there from the >> iranians gym. the other thing of course that we've been talking about as well as some of the threats coming from the iranians towards the united states say they don't want escalation with the us, but if the us does help israel fail, if israel retaliates against iran, the iranians are also saying that they will potentially also attack american interests in the region as well, jim. >> yeah, a lot of threats going in, a lot of directions right now in the region, a concerning time, fred pleitgen, thanks so much we are going to see some history tomorrow morning when jury selection begins in donald trump's hush money criminal trial, a first for any the former president. and us history to face such trial, what we expect to see on day one, just to head, and cnn newsroom there's debris in the
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