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in a social media post, the agency's director general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extremeestraint from everybody, and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent james landale who's injerusalem. talk is through the events so far, and what the reaction tells us about how this is viewed in the region? remember, we are still in that stage where the full facts are not known, and that those people who are commenting and talking about what has happened, and many of them have agendas to try and talk up or play down what has happened, but in terms of the basic facts, we know that iranian state media are reporting there have been explosions near a military base in isfahan in central iran. basically if you find tehran on a map and go due south it is there. essentially there have been reports of air defence explosions taking off, a senior iranian commanders have said they have shut down some drones. again, we still don't know exactly what was part of this air strike. the iranians at the moment are saying there ha
in a social media post, the agency's director general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extremeestraint from everybody, and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent james landale who's injerusalem. talk is through the events so far, and what the reaction tells us about how this is viewed in the region? remember, we are still in that stage where the full facts are not known, and that those people who are...
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in a social media post, the agency's director general rafael mariano grossi continued to call for extremetraint from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. our security correspondent frank gardner has provided his assessment of the situation. my assessment, for what it is worth, is this crisis is over, it has been averted for now. it does not end the middle east's problems, but the real fear of the tit—for—tat escalating exchange of fire between israel and iran for now at least appears to be over. why? let's take it back to april the 1st. there was a devastating air strike on iran's consulate in damascus. it flattened it. it was a targeted, precision strike which israel did not say it did, but everyone knows it was israel. it killed 13 people, including two top iranian generals. iran vowed a strong response. the region held its breath, the middle east held its breath for 13 days, and then we got the answer. last weekend, over saturday night into sunday morning, there was a barrage, a swarm attack by iran against israel with 330 drones, cruise
in a social media post, the agency's director general rafael mariano grossi continued to call for extremetraint from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. our security correspondent frank gardner has provided his assessment of the situation. my assessment, for what it is worth, is this crisis is over, it has been averted for now. it does not end the middle east's problems, but the real fear of the tit—for—tat escalating exchange of fire...
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in a social media post, the agency's director—general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extremetraint from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. there has been no official comment from israel, but itamar ben—gvir, the far—right national security minister, has tweeted a single word after friday's strikes, "scarecrow!", meaning feeble in hebrew slang, suggesting that israel was behind the blasts in iran, but the action was insufficient. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent james lansdale who's injerusalem. just bring it up on what you are hearing where you are? at just bring it up on what you are hearing where you are?- just bring it up on what you are hearing where you are? at the moment there is still no _ hearing where you are? at the moment there is still no official _ there is still no official confirmation from israel, where i am, for any responsibility, but as you say, israeli politicians are beginning to comment on it, notjust itamar ben—gvir, whose tweet you just read out, but that has provoked a furious response from
in a social media post, the agency's director—general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extremetraint from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. there has been no official comment from israel, but itamar ben—gvir, the far—right national security minister, has tweeted a single word after friday's strikes, "scarecrow!", meaning feeble in hebrew slang, suggesting that israel was behind the blasts in iran, but the action...
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in a social media post the agency's director general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extremeestraint from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. iran's semi—official tasnim news agency, which is close to the islamic revolutionary guard corps, posted a video with a caption saying... "isfahan�*s nuclear site is completely safe". in the video, a man near the isfahan nuclear technology centre is seen showing his watch to the camera to indicate the time and date. we can then see several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. reuters newsagency is reporting that an unnamed iranian source has said there is no immediate plan for retaliation. as well as these explosions in iran, they were reported, too, in southern syria — apparently from missiles targeting radar sites. and there were also blasts in iraq in the capital baghdad. and babil province to the south. israel had promised to respond to iran's drone and missile attack on saturday night. both nbc and cnn have reported unnamed officials saying that israel warn
in a social media post the agency's director general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extremeestraint from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. iran's semi—official tasnim news agency, which is close to the islamic revolutionary guard corps, posted a video with a caption saying... "isfahan�*s nuclear site is completely safe". in the video, a man near the isfahan nuclear technology centre is seen showing his watch to the...
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in a social media post, the agency's director—general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extreme from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent james landale who's injerusalem. james, give us a flavour of the reaction that there has been so far to this attack?— to this attack? well, internationally, - to this attack? well, - internationally, there has to this attack? well, _ internationally, there has been actually a fairly muted response of various countries from the chinese to the egyptians and others have merely limited themselves to generic reactions, saying that they oppose anything that escalates the situation and the conflict, they have not been overly critical of israel by name, let alone attributing any responsibility. the only country that has actually been critical was oh, man, who have actually condemned the attack. —— oman. interestingly, internally, within israel, still a place where the israeli government has not admitted any responsibility for what has happened, there was an ex
in a social media post, the agency's director—general, rafael mariano grossi, continued to call for extreme from everybody and said nuclear facilities should never be a target in military conflicts. let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent james landale who's injerusalem. james, give us a flavour of the reaction that there has been so far to this attack?— to this attack? well, internationally, - to this attack? well, - internationally, there has to this attack? well, _ internationally,...
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rafael mariano grossi, director general of the agency, said on social media he "continues to call forcentre is seen showing his watch to the camera to show the time and date. we can then see several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. explosions have also been reported in southern syria, from missiles apparently targeting radar sites. and in iraq in the capital baghdad and babil province to the south. israel promised to respond to a drone and missile attack conducted by iran on saturday night against israel. both nbc and cnn have reported unnamed officials saying that israel gave washington advance warning but that washington did not endorse the action. the us has restricted travel for its embassy staff in israel "out of an abundance of caution". the us embassy issued this statement... with me is majid afshar, senior reporter with bbc persian. thank you forjoining us. just bring us up—to—date on the information we are getting from iran, but also other countries who are watching developments on the ground. what other countries who are watching developments on
rafael mariano grossi, director general of the agency, said on social media he "continues to call forcentre is seen showing his watch to the camera to show the time and date. we can then see several troops standing around what looks like an air defence battery. explosions have also been reported in southern syria, from missiles apparently targeting radar sites. and in iraq in the capital baghdad and babil province to the south. israel promised to respond to a drone and missile attack...