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forces in iraq, yemen, and lebanon launched some 350 rockets, drones, missiles into its territory overnight turron says the attack is a response to a deadly strike on its consulate in damascus, which it's blamed on israel to rod is warning any new aggression from israel will be met with a quote, heavier and regrettable response the idf says, it quotes successfully thwarted about 99% of those missiles and drones with the help of allies in the region, including the us and the uk. tonight, the un security council is holding an emergency meeting amid fears of a broader regional conflict. us deputy ambassador to the un just moments ago, sent this warning >> if iran or its proxies take actions against the united states are further action against israel iran will be held responsible
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>> because really war cabinet says it has not reached a decision on its response, but is determined to act in some way with me. now cnn's nic robertson and jerusalem priscilla alvarez at the white house, nick first with you. we don't know what options the israeli cabinet might choose, but do we have any sense of the timeline on its decision >> we don't either because despite the fact that the war cabinet mad for almost five hours, the conclusion was they want more time to figure out the scale eylon scope1 timing of their follow-on response. what we do know as well as that they've asked the idf to come up with more options. we know that the prime minister is under pressure from members of his right-wing cabinet. of course, they don't sit around the table in the war cabinet, but it may ben gvir bezel, smotrich, her both called on
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the prime minister to take a tougher line reinforced to terrence be the aggressive landlord in the words of itamar ben gvir smashed the crockery, if you will and send a very strong signal to two ron that israel won't won't take a strike on its territory like this without a response that signifies deterrence to iran not to do it again, but from iran's perspective around believes that it has now sort of turn the tables on the fact that it hasn't responded directly to braille in the past for the killing of a number of its senior irgc commander has over the past few months and other other attacks going back way before that iran feels it now has the deterrence in its hands. the deter israel from striking it. this interests in the region. so this is a moment for the, for the government
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here. and the war cabinet in particular, to figure out how they retake the initiative and the impression we get is that israel does want to respond somehow. but very clearly hasn't decided quite yet. how big that response should be, or when there's consideration going into it, jim if if iranian officials are strikes me, if iranian officials are saying they have now reset the bar to the point at which where if israel attacks any iranian asset anywhere it will now strike or at least retain the option of striking israeli territory directly. i wonder how israeli officials read that apparent new bar. and do they then feel pressure? and this is the trouble of course, with escalation. do they feel pressure to reset the bar from their own perspective? >> i think when you look at it from israel's perspective, the
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bar has always been set that israel is the one that keeps its footing in a region that it believes is hostile to it by showing end, by showing anyone that attack said it will deter them from doing that again, it has a maximalist responses the way it's dealing with hamas inside of gaza, it's the way it deals with multiple threats. so this is, if you will, a conundrum for israel to cross. now, is it going to forego deterrence that seems hugely unlikely, but prison safely, how to respond, and what targets to choose. and what capacity to expand to do that, and how that could damage relations with key allies like the united states, because it could tip into a broader escalation. but we're on the path of escalation, jimmy, you called it i think last night a ladder of escalation and we're on that ladder. we've been on
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it for awhile. and this is another part of it. and i don't see israel at the moment backing away from wanting to retake and reset the bar of deterrence, whatever iran is saying at the moment we have, of course, the trouble that out right? is that then each sayyed ends up climbing. that escalation ladder. nic robertson, thanks so much. priscilla, to the white house. now, what is the white house level of concern that this could escalate? it, it seems there's a deliberate effort by white house officials to accentuate the positive to some degree to say, listen, israel call this a win 99% of these things were struck down. there was great regional cooperation in defending israel. i suppose the question is, does the white house believed that message is landing with israeli officials? >> well, and it is those public statements that goes to show how concern the white house is about this escalating for months now, the white house has tried to avoid this regional conflict, widening any further. and so in this moment, they are still focused on trying to
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contain that risk by telling israel that they should consider for this largely a success and for them to take the win and also reiterating that the us will not participate in an offensive against iran again, because of the concern in an already a tense situation. now, the president did speak to the g7 liters earlier today. and in that conversation he tried to find a diplomatic response. in other words, trying to move forward with non-military actions. and in a statement which i'll read to you, they said the following quote, with its actions, i ran has further step forward toward the destabilization of the region and risks provoking an uncontrollable regional escalation this must be avoided. we will continue to work to stabilize the situation and avoid further escalations. you can see just through this joint statement from the g7 liters, how top of mind it is for this not to escalate in the region. and again, the
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president in his conversation with these really prime minister benjamin netanyahu last it's night told him to think carefully and strategically about next steps that according to a senior administration official, of course, the question is whether the israeli prime minister takes the president's advice as we have seen with the war in gaza there have been ribs between president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu so the question is, what are the next steps? and can the white house successfully contain this risk of escalation? >> yeah. can any of the parties contain the risk of escalation? nick, in israel, priscilla alvarez there at the white house. thanks so much for both of you. let's turn now to a broader analysis joining me now, president and founder of eurasia group and g zero media. ian bremmer, good to have you on even thanks so much for making the time tonight so iran is saying now it's response to the israeli attack, presumed israeli attack on the consulate damascus is over. we've set our
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missiles were done for now and it cnn's reporting that iran actually communicated to turkey prior to this attack what its retaliatory options were, and then turki pass that information onto the us. i wonder if you see those two things as a deliberate effort by iran to it, whether it's successful or not. here's another question, but a deliberate effort at least by iran to put some guardrails around this are sets some limits here. so it doesn't escalate further. >> absolutely. gym or they did that with the iraqi government as well. >> so >> multiple avenues intended to get the united states to help the us ensure that they could defend against this attack, defend israel. this reminds me so much when the americans were telegraphing through to the iranians through third parties that they were going to get hit after the three american service men and women were killed in jordan on the syria border, the us waited for about a week
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>> they >> didn't want to get involved in a direct war with iran but they wanted to let everyone know they were very serious. so major strikes against the houthis, as well as against proxies in iranian proxies in syria and iraq, but gave the iranians time to get out, gave the iranians time to make this not have to precipitate into further escalation. i think it's very clear that that was the iranian intention, but iran wanted to do two things at the same time. they wanted this to be a maximal show of force, to show the world that they took very seriously the fact that their leader on the ground in syria had been killed by the israelis, but they also wanted to minimize the likelihood that there was further escalation that could bring iran into a direct war either with israel and/or with the united states. now, they may have wanted to do both of those two things, but pulling that off is a pretty big trick especially because the us and israel do not see eye to eye right now on the
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kind of response that should be elicited from on the iranian attack. >> no question. it seems like there might even be some disagreement within the israeli war cabinet as well but barack review of axios on this broadcast last hour, said that in the midst of the attack there was an argument made in the israeli war cabinet to strike back at or-awn. do the retaliation in effect while the iranian attack was still underway, strike iranian targets. why those missed while those missiles and drones, we're still on their way to israel, didn't happen. you have the conversation between biden and netanyahu. i wonder what you think the significance of that is and whether that might have escalated this thing quite quickly in the very midst of it. >> well, of course it would have, but as, as you've heard and on your own show, there's a very big difference between not yahoo and his far-right coalition. people like smoke trich jim ben gvir, who very
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much want to use this iranian attack to give israel and excuse to go after iran's nuclear program, go after the military capabilities of show israeli military strength, not just defensive capabilities and preventing an attack, but also go on offense it's against iran, but it's clearly not supported by benny gantz in the war cabinet. and the very fact of the bear hug from the united states, the uk and other allies. this ironclad support that the united states was providing against any strike from iran on israel. the fact that that was there, it was immediate, it was success testable, constrains, not in yahoo from acting against the rest of his war cabinet and a peep persists. benny gantz might decide that he's out. eisenkot might decide that he's out and that would make it right now, not know who looks a lot stronger than he did 48 hours ago because he's leading a country that just was able to rebuff this unprecedented scented strike
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from iran. there's more focus on that, less focus on gaza. that's great for non yeah, if he then persistent saying, i want to strike israel hard, but he doesn't have support for the war cabinet. he suddenly could be pressed and his government could collapse, right? and they could lose that support. so i think that the united states does have levers here, not just internationally, not just with the media, but also internally inside that war cabinet >> understood. i wonder if you could broaden this out a bit because you said you believe the us and china would stand to lose the most from an expansion of this war. can you explain why >> well, i mean, the united states loses a lot because they would be directly involved with israel in a war against iran. biden would probably lose the election if that would happen. but just also more broadly, it's another war that the americans are fighting with all of the consequent impact, implications for oil prices
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going up >> and the rest. now, china, china's not russia, china's not iran. it's not north korea, it's not part of this axis of resistance in the region. china benefits from stability and their economy it's doing really badly right now. so even though the united states hasn't taken any of the trump terrorists off. in fact, export controls against china are considerably higher today than they were a couple of years ago. china has been looking not to escalate the temperature because any further instability is just hurting their economy, their us this is big energy exporter. china's a massive energy importer and particularly from the middle east. they do not want the straits of hormuz to be impassable and i'm sure they were deeply concerned when they saw that iran itself. and you remember china's pretty good relations with iran, just like they do audi re-bin the uae, iran itself both actually went and boarded. this israeli linked ship just outside of the straits of hormuz. china wants
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no part of that whatsoever. >> yeah >> and it's one of those cases we're trying to benefits from this stability, but russia seems to see some personal benefit just from stoking the flames. ian bremmer, always good to talk to you still ahead. so what does israel do next? the israeli war cabinet met for sometime today. still no decision on a response. we're going to break down what the options are with our national security experts, you are in the cnn newsroom degree in this guy, parents, husbands and wives, sky, i wish i could've >> done something differently. you can just make it better for those that follow up, space shuttle columbia the final flight, two part finale tonight at nine on cnn you know, i spent a lot of time thinking about dirt at three in the morning. and you're what people don't know is that not all dirt is the same. you need dirt with the right kind of nutrients. look at this new
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can't >> i'm dr. sanjay gupta. >> and this is cnn >> these war cabinet now appears divided on exactly how to respond after iran fired hundreds of drones and missiles at israel israel's defense minister says the confrontation with iran is not over yet. white house is trying to turn down the temperature, saying it will not participate in any israeli retaliation against iranian territory directly i'm joined now by cnn military analysts, lieutenant general mark hertling and cnn global affairs analyst kimberly dozer. so general, the idf says that nearly all the missiles and drones were intercepted. i wonder how remarkable you find that. i mean, this, this was, it took a village here, right? because it wasn't just israel, it was the united states, the uk, there were arid partners
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involved in this. but was there a remarkable defense to watch come together >> jim, it was most incredible in my view, this this attack was first of all, great because it relied on the training and the exercises of various forces this is the combination and a multinational approach. some great planning and coordination with liaison officers. i got to tell you the defensive system within israel is good. it's been there for 20 years. this integrated air defense system, but it was only notched up to another level last night when you're talking about the kinds of partners some of whom don't even want to be mentioned because they're part of the arab world actually contributing to this. and it stopped an attack. and jim, let me just put it in perspective. the first day of operation iraqi freedom and 2003, the so-called shock and awe campaign had 500 precision weapons on the first day, this
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one had 320 in about five hours. so that gives you a comparison of scope and scale for these two kinds of attack. >> well, that's a remarkable comparison, shocking or at least attempted, right? but, but thwarted largely kimberly, israel and iran, they've been engaged to some degree in the shadow war for a number of years now. but iran has now targeted israel directly. and enlarge form here. by the way, you have iranian official saying quite publicly right now that listen, you strike any of our assets and we reserve the right to strike israeli territory for you again, is this a new normal, well knew, more dangerous normal dangerous new normal in that look iran lobbed more than 300 munitions at israel. and what price is it paying on the world stage? a stiff g7 statement. sure. >> but it's >> already been sanctioned to the hilt. i don't know what else the international community can do to signal that
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it shouldn't do this again. and russia and china don't seem to be helping. meanwhile, israel has been told try anything against any of our officials again and we'll d this again surely more deadly a seco time, becse, you know, the, the drones, the slost moving part of this barrage ey cld have timed the other munitis to arre when the drones arrhey chosto do waves if they timed it so that everything arrived together. i think we would have been looking at more destruction so now israel's in this situation where yes, they can try to rally the west and say, look, we've been telling you they plan to do something like this to us and now they've done it. we need your support but iran is going to keep pushing it. israel, through his villa, through the yemeni fighters the next time it does something.
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what's israel gonna do? nothing i can't see that >> happen, but they do have multiple levers >> general hurtling. you heard cnn reporting earlier? in the broadcast that iran communicated to turkey prior to this assaults that it was going to retaliate, give them a sense of what the options were. turki, nato ally, then communicate, communicated that to the us was that deliberate? was that a deliberate iranian attempt to say, hey, here's what we're gonna do. so, you know, in advance to put a lid on potential responses and chances of escalation yeah. >> i think it absolutely was. gm, but first, if you don't mind out comment on what kim just said because she is exactly right. if this had been a synchronized attack, which i was concerned about last night as we saw different waves coming in, i thought they were all going to hit at the same time instead of sequential, which is somewhat ham handed on the part of the iranian forces, it would have made all the
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difference in the world. but going back to your question, yeah, i would bet that they also around also told other allies and i'm talking specifically russia that they were going to do this. so a combination of turkey and russia, that this was about to happen it that's normal operation. you can never keep things secret. you have to tell your allies so they know how to react when it does happen and they're not surprised >> to that point that that attempt to overwhelm defenses is exactly what russia does to ukraine every day, right? so in them send a multiple speeds in great volumes to overwhelm those defenses kimberly dosha now looking at options, going forward what are the most basic options for israel short of striking israeli territory, sorry, iranian territory directly which the us president is saying we won't be involved in. if you want. and the reads and that's >> really important is that if israel is going to launch some
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sort of attack like that over those distances it would likely want to include jets, jets require refueling. that's usually something that the us or other allies would do for it. plus all of the intelligence that it would need to make that journey >> but >> the other thing that they're facing though, is with that iranian threat, that if you do anything israel's pushback against its adversaries, its deterrence policy has always been if you hit us will hit you three and four times as hard so that you'll never try it again. and israeli officials have talked of their fear that the hamas attacks on october 7 have punctured this idea that israel has this amazing defense. and now that now anyone might try to do this again. so there's going to be pressure on netanyahu and his work cabinet and his conservative government. writ large to do something to letter
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on no, they can't do this. >> although the us argument seems to be listened you in this case, your defenses worked, call it a win we'll see if that >> passage i'm not saying if they're doing it right now. i here. you can't kimberly those, your thanks so much. of course. lieutenant general mark hertling as well. we do have news into cnn and that is that israel, we're just learning is now lifting in effect shelter in place orders that we saw in the midst of this attack yesterday, which will allow schools to open tomorrow, a sign of perhaps some increased com, in israel about the level of the threat now, at least for now, will continue to provide details on that news till ahead. congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have been quick to condemn iran's strikes on israel. now, the pressure is on to pass additional aid for israel thing is there's already a senate passed supplemental that has that aid, as well as aid for you brain, which is still under attack and taiwan under threat from china so does that mandu is going to bring it to the floor for a vote will be asking
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coates live week nights at 11 eastern on cnn >> today, a promise at least to try again, house speaker mike johnson says, he wants to put an israeli aid package on the floor this week, but he's already facing warnings from his right flank about doing that in any way in conjunction with the thing that's already passed the senate, which is a supplemental with that aid for israel, but also for ukraine and for taiwan. cnn's melanie zanona is with me now. so melanie here we are. speaker johnson again, you and i've talked about this 850 million times in the last several weeks and wants and here we are again
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johnson went to mar-a-lago to speak to trump on friday in part about this package? >> yeah. that's exactly right. so speaker mike johnson had already been wrestling with this question of how to address both israel and ukraine. obviously that question has taken on renewed significance and urgency now that iran has a talked attacked israel and he did go on fox business this morning and said he was going to put some type of israel aid package on the floor this upcoming week. sorry, excuse me, an israel what he said, those details have still not been finalized. let's play a clip. >> the house republicans and the republican party understand the necessity of standing with israel. we are going to try again this week and the details of that package are being put together right now, we're looking at the options and all these supplemental issues and jim, part of the reason for that indecision that you heard there is that johnson is facing competing pressures and one corner there's these bipartisan calls, >> including from gop leader mitch mcconnell, including from
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some of his own house republican committee chairman to just put that senate aid package on the floor because that would be the fastest way to get aid to israel. but in the other corner, you have hardly line conservatives like marjorie taylor greene saying that these issues should be separate and mercutio green has actually threatened johnson over his speakership if he proceeds with ukraine. so that is why johnson went down to mar-a-lago on friday to see what trump's position of course, we walked in the room for that. do we have any indication as to what his message was and what trump's reception? >> well, i am told by sources that going into the meeting which they met beforehand before they did this press conference, johnson was determined to not only just try to feel trump out, but to try to get his buy-in for whatever they're potentially going to do on ukrainian. interestingly, trump did say two questions to reporters during the press conference that he was open to this idea of structuring the aid to ukraine as well. so perhaps there is a path on ukraine, but the issue here is that whatever they do in the house then has to go back to the senate and there's no guarantee that would pass. so that is the complicated calculus for jobs unless the choice of, well, putting
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what's already passed the senate on the floor, right? we'll see. okay. so you'll have work to do this week again. thanks so much joining me now to discuss that and many of the other topics before the august body that you serve in congress, democratic congressman from california, ro khanna. he sits on the house armed services many thanks for taking time on a sunday evening >> thank you, jim, i think that's the first time i've heard it described as an august body that these >> it's sunday. right. we've got to use terms of respect you been briefed first, i want to just talk about the israeli attack and then get to the broader issues back here. you've been briefed on this attack. can you can you tell us what you've learned? >> well, it was a horrific attack that violated international law. i stand with president biden and strongly unequivocally condemning the attack. i'm grateful to our military that they were able to intercept many of the missiles. and i'm glad that israel hello, was able to intercept a
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lot of the missiles. and so far the only report is if a young girl who has been hurt and i'm glad that there was not worth loss of life >> as you know, president biden has said, the us has an ironclad commitment to israel's security, but he's also delivered a message quite publicly as well, given that a number of his aides have described it this way to say that if israel were to attack iranian territory, the us would not be involved. is that a message you believe that israel will heed? >> leave that the president's handling this exactly correctly he positioned our military to be able to help intercept those missiles. and he did come to the aid of israel i have voted for and supported iron dome funding and the united states is provided a lot of offensive weapons to israel that helped again, against these missiles. but the president is clear, we can't have an escalation of the conflict as you know, jim
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iran is supporting hezbollah and hamas in the region. and while that conflict exists, if israel now engages in retaliation and you can see the entire middle east continue to flare up and the president is trying to save lives to get to peace and to deescalate the conflict >> let me ask you this. are you concerned that there are military responses by israel? to this attack? military responses, it can choose to carry out that would bring the us in whether it wants to or not >> no because the united states is not getting into a war in the middle east. i mean, i, i don't think the american people want that. i don't think there's any appetite in congress to do that. i certainly would not vote for an authorization of force unless the american troops were directly attacked on america as homeland as attack, and i just don't think that there's an appetite for us getting into
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another war in the middle east. i think what some of the most irresponsible rhetoric has been, some of my republican colleagues who have been saying, let's retaliate and hit iran. i think they've forgotten the disaster that the iraq war was no question. okay, so here we are again with a, not just to israel, but to ukraine and to taiwan as you know, supplemental, it's already passed the senate with bipartisan support. the republican house speaker johnson has not brought it to the floor for a vote. and now you have multiple directions. this could take, you, he could choose this week just let's to put and israeli aid package to the house floor and not the supplemental which i know that you support. what would you and other democrats do if republicans come to the floor and say, we're going to save ukraine for another day or maybe never do it, but we want israeli aid now, would you vote for that? >> again depends on what the package was. if it was defensive aid aid for irondale eight through some of the interceptors that israel had to use, i would vote for that and
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support that. but if it includes three billion in offensive weapons i will not vote for that. and jim, there were 50 six democrats, including me and speaker pelosi and others, wrote a letter to president biden saying we should not be giving offensive weapons to israel until the war ends. and so i think a lot depends on the details and whether there would be an amendment process the question also is though, that if a package were to come, that whether you like it or not, whether that would then do real perhaps once and >> for all us aid for ukraine that there might be an attempt because as you know, they're republican members of the house, minority, but republican members who don't, don't want any aid for ukraine, would you vote for in israel package at risk of ukraine aid effectively being dead >> well, the details matter i would of course insist that there'll be a ukraine aid package are some clean bill, even if it's what johnson
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speaker johnson is saying on loans, that's better than nothing. i mean, the situation in ukraine is dire and urgent. israel, guess they need to replenish some of the defense of weapons, but you credit if they don't get the artillery, if they don't get the weapons, putin's going to take it over. so i, many democrats are going to try to insist on getting a clean vote on the ukraine bill and we should note that ukraine is coming under missile and drone attacks every day largely on civilian targets and infrastructure. congressman ro khanna, always good to have you on thank you, jim >> still ahead. this our iran unleashed a major attack against israel and promised further action if israel is to respond, we're going to break down what is happening inside iran as the world reacts to this attack? you are in the cnn newsroom
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conflicting words from iranian officials here. they say it's concluded, but they also seem to be communicating that now they reserve the right to retaliate for any israeli attack by striking back on israeli territory. >> yeah, you're absolutely right, jim. and i think it's quite interesting to look at some of the messaging that we've been getting out of tehran. and from the iranian officials. and also some of the nuances in that as well. one of the things that i picked on which i thought was really interesting was the fact they're obviously trying to sell this as a very successful operation as they put it to the head of the irgc see general hossein salami. he came out and he said that the iranians originally had wanted a much broader attack, but then opted for something smaller and something targeting as they put it, the military base or the airbase from which the israelis, as the iranian say launched their attack on iran's embassy in a compound in damascus because on april 1st, and they're saying that they feel that they were quite successful in that. in fact,
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the iranian just saying they believed that they were more successful than they ever would have thought. >> they >> did come out very quickly last night already as some of their drones and missiles were still in the air and said that as far as they were concerned, all of this could be deemed concluded as they put it, except if the israelis retaliate. and that does seem to be a more general position of the iranians now, that same irgc commander, he came out and he said that iran is new strategy. is that if israel attacks any sort of iranian forces, iranian personnel, whether iran or outside of iran, that iran will now retaliate from its own territory. let's listen in >> him, get him >> we decided to create a new equation. that is, if the zionist regime attacks our interests, assets, personalities, and citizens at any point we will attack them from the islamic republic of iran the honest promise
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operation is a prominent and very clear example of this new equation >> it's quite a threat. they're coming from the iranians, jim, and of course, there are also threatening the united states as well, saying today, the foreign minister that they don't want any escalation patient with the us, but that if the us does come to the aid of israel in an attack against iran, that then us military bases would become iranian targets as well. jim and that would be, quite an escalation. no question for fred pleitgen in berlin. thanks so much >> still ahead. it's going to be an historic de, in new york city tomorrow. first day of donald trump's first criminal trial begins ending with jury selection, details of what we should expect to see in that courtroom you are in the cnn newsroom there's debris in this, guy, parents, husbands and wives, sky >> i wish i could have done something differently. you can just make it better. for those
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