Fox News: Air Strikes in Iran Was ‘Limited in Nature’ According to Pentagon

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Warrants I just want to read this airspace at closing in Israel not closed yet but the Associated Press just sent this one down the thing reads as follows commercial flights developing roots Friday morning today’s Friday Friday morning now in the Middle East over western Iran without explanation as one official news agency in the Islamic republic claims there had been explosions heard over the city which train was just talking about I want to bring in the chief national security correspondent live for us at the Pentagon, what are you learning about this?
>> Officially commenting on any of the reports of explosions that have taken place inside Iran as well as in Syria and Iraq tonight but a well-placed U.S. Military source tells and confirms to me that what appears to be Israeli strikes inside Iran have taken place but I am told that they are limited in nature. But we have heard so far from Iranian prices that there were three explosions which as Terry has explained is the location of that nuclear facility we have no information at that that was the target or that any of the new group studies were eight target tonight you could have situations where there are air defence systems that would be targeted what we know from past reporting on the situation in Iran and what it’s capabilities are is that Iran is a very limited in terms of, and we saw this on Saturday night, in terms of the number of ballistic missile launchers that they have these are bulbul launchers and they have between 10200 of those launchers, Israel knows that, Israel saw what Iran was capable of when they fired those ballistic missiles on Saturday night so what we can say at this point in time it is there are Iranian based reports of explosions in the area that is significant because that is the location of the nuclear facility I think it would be wildly speculative to suggest that the city itself was struck it’s a very hardened site very difficult for anyone to talk about we hear analysts talking about taking out Iran’s nuclear facilities but most of those facilities are underground and hardened and it’s not something that is taken out in one strike with the explosions that occur I think if we look back to earlier in the day I think it was significant that the leading hebrew language newspaper in Israel reported there had been some of the seven ballistic missiles that didn’t strike inside Israel, there were remnants of those found in Israel’s nuclear plant that to me suggested that Israel may be laying the groundwork for the sort of cassis belli to symbolically strike back in what we are being told by a well-placed U.S. military sources is a limited strike in Iran significant however is that Israel has never carried out an overt military strike like this and just as Iran had never done so until Saturday night so a rubicon has certainly been passed and now everybody watches and waits to see what the reaction is, one more point I think if you look at the timing of when this strike reports of the strike began we start hearing explosions just around the same time that the Iran foreign minister landed in New York and sat down for an interview on another network tonight on CNN’s in speaking to in – in bc tomorrow but he landed in New York and clearly the Iran, he issued the following threat, he said in essence that the Iran response for Israel if they were to strike inside Iran it would be immediate and maximum level it will be decisive and definitive and regretful to them that was the threat tonight from the Iran foreign minister when he landed in New York we are still trying to get do more reporting but as of right now the pin to gone is not confirming these reports of explosions inside Iran and my best place source right now U.S. Military sources say this is a limited strike inside Iran.