Israel striking Iran after earlier additional airstrikes

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Israel striking Iran after earlier additional airstrikes   Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reports on the latest wave of Israeli airstrikes on Iran as the IDF continues strikes of Tehran. #foxnews #news #usa #us #world #donaldtrump #trump #iran #israel #middleeast #war #nuclear #weapon #ayatollah #khamenei #netanyahu #breakingnews #live #media #telaviv #pakistan #primetime #military #army #navy #washington   Fox News is the ultimate source of Top Stories, News Updates, Breaking news, Top headlines, Investigative reports, Human interest stories, Weather updates, Natural disaster coverage, Crime reports, Editorial opinions, Fact-checking articles, Global events, global news, global news, global news updates, latest news, latest updates, news updates, and world news updates.   Stay informed with the latest headlines and in-depth coverage from around the world — follow Global News Updates for real-time news you can trust. Don’t miss a story — hit follow now!   GLOBAL NEWS   #IranIsraelConflict #MiddleEastTensions #IranIsraelWar #BreakingNews #Geopolitics #foxnews #skynews #cnn #MiddleEastCrisis #WarInIranIsrael #InternationalNews #MiddleEastConflict #GlobalSecurity #BreakingNewsUpdate #ConflictAnalysis #IranNews #IsraelNews #WarUpdates #MiddleEastPolitics #SecuritySituation #IranIsraelRelations #WarNews #RegionalTensions #globalnews #newschannel #insights #updates

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00:00I'm Trey Yinkst right now on Israel striking Iran right now, Trey.

00:08Yeah, John, Sandra, Fox News has learned Israel is currently striking targets in Iran.

00:14This is a wave of strikes.

00:15We don't know what exactly they're trying to hit, but it follows additional airstrikes

00:19that took place earlier today, going after a variety of targets in and around the capital

00:25of Tehran.

00:25Smoke could be seen rising from the Iranian capital, and the IDF saying those earlier

00:30strikes went after underground military infrastructure, missile storage sites, and UAV storage sites.

00:36We do expect these Israeli strikes to continue.

00:39Again, at this hour, we can report there are jets over Iranian territory striking different

00:44targets at this moment, but these will likely continue as the Israelis come under more ballistic

00:50missile fire from Iran.

00:51Early this morning, two different waves of missile strikes targeted this country, going

00:56after infrastructure in the south and residential areas in the north.

01:00Israeli officials say they'd like this war to be over in a matter of days, but they are

01:04preparing for the possibility that this drags out for weeks.

01:07John, Sandra?

01:08So, Trey, let's go to the politics of Iran itself.

01:11Via the sources that you've talked to in the region, I'm wondering what you're picking up

01:16that's going on inside the country because, you know, when a regime is at the tipping

01:21point, you usually get some pretty good indications that that's about to happen.

01:25Syria, for example, there were pretty obvious signs that things were not going well for Assad,

01:30and then suddenly it tipped over into a regime change.

01:34We saw the same thing in Afghanistan when the Taliban swept out the Afghanistan government.

01:39Do you get a sense that Iran is anywhere near a tipping point here, or do the authorities

01:45in charge now, led, I guess, by the IRGC, still have a pretty good handle on all the levers

01:52of power there?

01:55Look, Israeli officials say they still have a pretty good handle on the situation in Tehran,

02:00but it's important to note the Israelis have gone after much of the military leadership,

02:05trying to decimate top commanders from the IRGC. And the strike today on the American base

02:11outside of Doha, Al-Odou Daid, is a significant development, but it's also a coordinated development.

02:18The Americans knew there would be some response from the Iranians following these strikes that

02:22were ordered by President Trump over the weekend against Iran's key nuclear facilities.

02:27And this is in part because the Iranians are looking to save face domestically.

02:31They're under immense domestic political pressure. We have seen the images of Iranian civilians,

02:36millions of them evacuating the capital of Tehran, lines of traffic as people try to get out of

02:41the way. Earlier today, the Israelis released an infographic showing an IRGC command center in the

02:47heart of Tehran, urging Iranian civilians to stay away from these facilities. It's hard to get a real

02:53sense of the feelings from the civilian population, given the fact that the regime has cracked down

02:58on Internet access there, and people have very limited ability to speak to the outside world.

03:04But as this moves forward, there is still a political chain of command that exists. You have

03:08the Ayatollah Khamenei, who has reportedly appointed successors if needed, but you also have President

03:15Masoud Pazeskian and his deputies, who have not been killed in the Israeli strikes. The Israeli strikes

03:21have gone after military leadership so far, and they've been precise in a way that they have used

03:26their intelligence apparatus here in Tel Aviv to track down these military commanders in an effort

03:31to weaken Iran's ability to fire back at Israel. And while we certainly have seen that, there are

03:36fewer missiles flying through the skies of Israel in recent days, they still have the ability to

03:41coordinate these counterattacks. And so we saw the ballistic missile attack this morning that

03:46targeted those installations in the south of Israel and also residential areas in the north.

03:50And then just last hour, this attack against a U.S. base in Qatar. The key here is the missile supply

03:57and the ability to launch these missiles. It is not surprising that they used short and medium

04:02range missiles in the attack today on the U.S. base in Qatar, because the Israelis have been going

04:07after their long range missile supply. They have tried to take out as many of the launching positions

04:12as possible. And the Iranians have had to systematically start moving where they're firing the missiles

04:17from because the Israelis have control over the skies of Tehran and the surrounding areas.

04:22And again, as we can report at this hour, Israel is currently striking targets in and around Tehran,

04:29an indication that they will keep up this air campaign in the hours and days ahead. And I'm

04:34checking with sources here in the region to try to get an understanding about the current security

04:39alert in the Gulf right now, because there is concern that this event retaliating against the United

04:44States directly targeting a U.S. base that normally houses around 10,000 American soldiers may not

04:50be over. And so everyone here is in a high state of alert. The Israelis as well, certainly coordinating

04:56intelligence behind the scenes with the Americans as this operation continues. But remember, we learned

05:01from Israeli sources over the past two days that ahead of the American strikes that took out in part

05:07these nuclear facilities in Iran, there was an effort by the Israelis to take out the air defense

05:13systems of the Iranian regime, not only to clear the path for American bombers, but also to make

05:19it easier to put this pressure on the regime, the political leadership that's left in Tehran,

05:24understanding that once you take out the majority of their nuclear program, and once their ballistic

05:29missile program is decimated, all they have left is turning to their proxies in the region.

05:34And over the past year and a half amid the Israeli campaign against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon,

05:38the American and Israeli campaign against the Houthis in Yemen, Israeli strikes against Hamas

05:43and Islamic Jihad inside Gaza, and ongoing limited attacks against Iranian proxies,

05:48these Shia militias in Iraq and Syria, their proxy ability has also been decimated. And so Iran is,

05:54they're running out of buttons to push. And so they can still launch these counterattacks as they

05:59have done today, but they don't have an unlimited supply of missiles, and both the Israelis and the

06:04Americans know that. Okay, Trey Yanks, as our reporters stand by with us and the news breaks,

06:10let's get back.

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