Shifting our focus now to late breaking news from the Middle East, Israel is striking Iran tonight.

It's in retaliation for Iran's attack earlier this month when Tehran launched 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.

Nick Schifrin is following this breaking news.

Nick, what are you hearing from your sources?

Jeff, tonight the Israeli defense forces have made a statement confirming that,

yes, they are attacking Iran, and I'm just going to read part of that

statement right now in response to months of continuous attacks from the

regime in Iran against the state of Israel right now the Israel Defense

Forces conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran.

The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since

October the 7th on seven fronts, including direct attacks from Iran in soil.

Now to keep that up for one second,

I want to focus on one word, military targets in Iran.

That has been the source of the debate,

of the discussion, negotiations, perhaps,

between the Israeli government and the US

government. Israeli officials told me when I was there during this Iranian

attack that they wanted to have a very very large response to reestablish deterrence in their words. The US

wanted to prevent another round of ballistic missile strikes. Those ballistic

missile strikes that we saw on

October the 1st were the second round. So US officials argued that in order to

prevent a third round, Israel couldn't attack two things, nuclear sites or energy sites, and that apparently is what the US has convinced Israel to do to attack military sites, not anything else.

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