Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

The wider Middle East war is officially underway and we get every angle. First, how will the Netanyahu government respond to Iran's salvo?

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barag, joins us.

Then, military pressure can at times enable diplomacy.

Of course, military pressure can also lead to miscalculation.

How will the US try to calm this conflict?

Can it?

I ask Andrew P. Miller, former State Department official and Biden policy critic.

And did Iran get checkmated? I asked Iran expert and senior fellow for the Carnegie Endowment Karim Sajapur about its ballistic missile volley. Plus, on another front, Israel's ground offensive against Hezbollah. We get the view from the Lebanese foreign minister welcome to Welcome to the program, everyone.

I'm Christiana Wannpour in London.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning that Iran, quote, will pay after

firing around 200 ballistic missiles and military targets last night.

Iran said it was in response to a raft of assassinations by Israel against its proxies and members of its own armed forces.

Israel says, along with its allies,

it intercepted almost all the incoming,

and three military bases that were struck are already up and running again.

When it comes to retaliation, the U.S. President Joe Biden says he does not support an attack on

Iran's nuclear sites. Meantime, on its northern front, Israel is sending in more forces to

fight against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The IDF says at least eight of its troops have been killed since their

ground offensive began, while Lebanon says a thousand people have been killed in the past two weeks,

with a million displaced. Now, almost swept from the headlines is Gaza, very little mention of the

remaining Israeli hostages there, or the nearly 90 Palestinians killed in the enclave just last night alone.

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