BREAKING NEWS REGIONAL WAR LOOMING AFTER ISRAEL STRIKES BACK AT IRAN
April 19, 2024Explosions echoed over the Iranian city of Isfahan today after Israel launched a new strike against Iran elevating fears that a wider, regional conflict is looming.
However, Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation – a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.
Iranian media and officials described a small number of explosions, which they said resulted from Iran’s air defences hitting three drones over the city of Isfahan. Notably, they referred to the incident as an attack by “infiltrators”, rather than by Israel, obviating the need for retaliation.
CNN’s chief National Security correspondent, Alex Marquardt, confirmed that US officials had warned Israel against a retaliatory strike but Israel ignored the warning.
US National Security Analyst, James Clapper said “the escalation ladder is going to get harder and harder to control”.
“I don’t think they (Iran) is going to respond in kind. They are going to respond with a larger attack…than the first one.”
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Alex Marquardt: Abby, I’ve just gotten confirmation from a U.S. official that Israel has indeed struck Iran tonight. That what we are seeing, this explosion or explosions around the city of Esfahan is indeed an Israeli attack against Iran. This is the retaliation that we have thought may be coming for several days now, ever since Iran carried out that strike last weekend against Israel, with those more than 300 drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. There are not too many details about the dimensions, the breadth of the Israeli strike tonight. But a U.S. official confirming to me just moments ago that what we are seeing is indeed Israel carrying out a strike against Iran. What we’ve been seeing from local reports now, multiple Iranian reports, official and semiofficial, is explosions near the city of Esfahan, which is in western central Iran. One more thing that the U.S. official told me is that it is not believed to be against a nuclear facility. We’ve been talking about the city of Esfahan. It is one of Iran’s most important. There is a significant nuclear facility there. My understanding from speaking with now multiple U.S. officials is that the targets that Israel had indicated that they would be going after in a counter strike would not be nuclear. One senior U.S. official also telling me that the targets would not be civilian. I was told very firmly by a U.S. official not too long ago that the U.S. certainly did not give the green light to this Israeli operation. What we have heard all week long from senior administration officials is that they did not want Israel to carry out this counterattack.
James Clapper: I think we’re rapidly based on the information that Alex just discussed, that it looks like there was an attack. I think we’re rapidly growing out of that phase and that the escalation ladder is going to get harder and harder to control. And that the messaging phase is perhaps over. I take the Iranian officials, notably the foreign minister at their word, and I don’t think they’re going to respond in kind, but they’re going to respond with a larger attack that in their minds would be more effective than the first one.
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