Israel Launches Attack on Iran
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The IDF says Iran has launched about 100 drones towards its territory and says it killed Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami in overnight strikes.
Israel's overnight missile strike was the largest attack on the Islamic Republic since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
Our main focus today we'll be on the major overnight air strikes launched by Israel against a large number of targets in Iran.
Hossein Salami, along with some of the country's top nuclear scientists, were killed in the strike. The United States has denied any role in the strikes, but U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration is in close contact with Israel and its allies.
Shapiro served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East until January—charged with, among other things, considering scenarios in which tensions between Israel and Iran escalated into all-out war and preparing U.
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The military strikes jolted investors, raising concerns that a broader Mideast conflict would disrupt the world’s energy supplies.
Ben Rhodes, former deputy national security advisor, talks with Jen Psaki about the awkwardness of the Trump administration trying to distance itself from Israel's attack on Iran, and what it means about Donald Trump's status that Israel's attack came while Trump was attempting to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran.