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00:00 For the very latest, we can cross to Jerusalem and speak to our correspondent Iris Mackler.
00:04 Iris, clearly concern is growing over a reprisal attack from Iran. What's the mood like there?
00:10 Are people worried about it? People are very worried. I've been away,
00:15 and when I've come back, I really feel the difference, because before there was concern
00:21 over Gaza, there was concern over the escalation with Lebanon in the north, over the escalation in
00:27 the West Bank. But now the talk is all over this Iranian attack, which you are hearing from various
00:34 sources. American intel, Israeli intel is really imminent. Israelis see these warnings from France,
00:42 from the US to its staff here, and that adds to their concerns. And they're concerned about two
00:48 things. One is obviously, you know, could the attack harm them? But the second is what kind
00:54 of escalation would this be? Because we haven't seen this in this conflict or really at all.
00:59 I just want to remind people of the geography. Israel and Iran are not neighbouring states.
01:04 Iran would have to send its missiles across Iraq and Jordan to reach Israel. But we have seen during
01:12 this war, Yemen was doing that from where its region in the Red Sea. So it is possible. It is
01:18 frightening. And if Israel retaliates inside Iran, as they are threatening to do if they're attacked,
01:25 then this takes this whole, it's a conflagration and it's a different order from everything that
01:31 we've seen so far. Terrible as that has been. Yeah, so Iris, as you're saying, a lot of worry,
01:36 a lot of uncertainty also. How likely is an attack really, given the consequences that it would have?
01:44 That is the question everyone is asking, because we've just seen an American Intel report today
01:49 saying that an attack is imminent within the next 24 to 48 hours. We were reporting yesterday on
01:56 France 24, that the US has asked its Middle Eastern allies, Saudi, Iraq, the UAE to send
02:03 messages to Iran and to ask them to reduce the pressure and lessen the tension, because there
02:09 could be a response both from Israel and the US. Today, we're seeing reports in some papers
02:14 suggesting that what Iran is saying is that it will respond to that attack on its consulate on
02:20 April 1st, but it may not respond from its own territory. So on some reports, we're seeing
02:25 that it's imminent. On other reports, we're seeing that it's winding back. The truth is that we don't
02:31 know. But because of the severity of this, we are hearing from Israel's defence minister a warning
02:37 to the people of Israel not to panic, just to be prepared. But what does that mean in case of this
02:44 kind of conflagration? So I think it's safe to say that this next 48 hours is critical. This whole
02:51 week to come is a time of great tension here. All right. Well, we will be following that
02:57 situation closely. Iris, thank you so much for that update. That's our correspondent there,
03:01 Iris Mackler, reporting from Jerusalem.