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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