Experts Feared a Wider War. It's Finally Here
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
With Israel sending airstrikes on Lebanon and deflecting missiles from Iran, the war has become what experts feared: a regional conflict. How much more will the fighting spread?
Guest: Shane Harris, intelligence and national security reporter for the Washington Post.
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| 0:55.2 | Around 730 Tuesday night, Israelis were sitting down to dinner when the sirens went off. After days of escalating conflict between Israel and Lebanon, Iran had entered the fray, |
| 1:07.0 | launching nearly 200 missiles directly at Israel. |
| 1:10.0 | We're getting our first look, Anderson, right now, and some of the damage. |
| 1:13.5 | Video posted on social media shows an object crashing down just north of Tel Aviv. |
| 1:21.1 | Well, the first question I had was, how big is this going to be? |
| 1:25.0 | Shane Harris covers intelligence and national security for the Washington Post. |
| 1:30.0 | We heard in around mid-morning Washington time from sources in the Biden administration |
| 1:36.0 | that officials had detected and what they called an imminent ballistic missile |
| 1:40.5 | attack from Iran. So we were bracing for this and when it came it actually |
| 1:44.4 | came quite quickly and you could see on television images of these |
| 1:49.4 | interceptors from Israel's air defense systems, these missiles going up and intercepting the other Iranian |
| 1:54.9 | missiles and then kind of crashing down in areas of Tel Aviv. |
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