00:00Well, let's cross then to Jerusalem, talk to our correspondent, Nogha Tanopolsky.
00:04Nogha, the US then seemingly trying to still try and find a way out of this and negotiate.
00:11What about Benjamin Netanyahu? I mean, is he trying to, having to adapt his strategy because of it?
00:20Excuse me, Stuart. I think that Prime Minister Netanyahu surprisingly finds himself in a situation
00:28not that different from our own. In other words, hearing on the one hand of American plans,
00:36at least the Israeli government has been leaking, that they have heard American plans to declare
00:41a ceasefire in Iran as early as Saturday, so two days from today. That's something that
00:47the Israeli government was telling diplomatic correspondents here last night. And at the same
00:53time, we hear that the United States is sending several thousand Marines to the region and preparing
01:00for what appears to be a possible invasion of Harg Island, this tiny but crucial piece of Iranian land
01:09in the Straits of Hormuz. So it is very difficult to know. And my impression is that it is as
01:15difficult
01:16for the Israeli authorities to know. So for now, what we're seeing is that coordination between the
01:22American and the Israeli militaries continues unaffected. The bombings in Iran are continuing
01:29in what appears to be almost perfect coordination between the US pilots and the Israeli pilots.
01:36And yet the Israeli government seems to be kind of scrambling to prepare for any possibility,
01:44even in the immediate future.
01:47Meanwhile, at the same time, Nogar, it's being reported, isn't it, that Israel has taken
01:51some key Iranian leaders off its hit list at the request of Pakistan. Pakistan, of course,
01:58said to be negotiating or being an intermediary, at least, between Iran and the US.
02:05That's right. So I heard a slightly different version of that. But the fact that it's in the air is
02:10interesting. What I was able to gather from here is that the United States and Israel removed from the
02:19list of possible targets, both Pashakh Kyan, the president of Iran, and the speaker of its parliament,
02:30who are seen kind of as the last men standing, as those who still could possibly negotiate.
02:36Although both have been extremely explicit in saying that they will not negotiate and that
02:43there are no negotiations. So let's take a step back. Pakistan did offer its services
02:48as a mediator. They were supposed to be, you remember that just a few days ago, Stuart,
02:54we were speaking about a possible meeting on Thursday, today, in Islamabad, between Vice President
03:00J.D. Vance and a top Iranian official. Now, none of this is happening. And we have to ask ourselves
03:08the question whether there were any talks underway. For now, there's no evidence, except for Donald
03:14Trump's insistence that talks had started. There's no evidence. And we've seen no site for these talks
03:22and no interlocutor.
03:24Noga, thanks very much. Noga Tana Palski, our correspondent, joining us with the latest there
03:28from Jerusalem.
03:29Noga Tana Palski, our correspondent, joining us with the latest there from Jerusalem.
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