All right, we are live with Alexander Mercurice in London.

Alexander, how are you doing?

I'm doing very well, just to say, strange background.

There is a complete internet blackout where I live, so I am having to do this at somebody else's place.

And obviously that explains why we have only a limited amount of time but the news is huge

and that's why we're here in all other respects yeah let's okay good so since we have a limited

amount of time let's let's just get into it alexander the uh the united states has uh has hit

iran the nuclear facilities, and your thoughts on what exactly

they accomplished.

Well, of course, we don't exactly know because we're not there.

And we're probably not going to be able to find out in any time soon.

Even satellite photos can only tell us so much about facilities that are buried deep underground.

The Iranians are saying that no fundamental damage was done.

The Russians are saying the same.

I mean, the IAEA and the IAEA. So it is looking as if this attack,

which the Iranians, by the way, seemed to have made no attempt to counter. I mean, there's no

sign of any Iranian air defences operating, but they clearly anticipated the strike because they evacuated apparently all their people.

But it looks as if the strike was made

and the best assessment we can make at the moment

is that it failed on its own terms.

It did not destroy the enrichment facilities buried deep inside the mountain in Fordow.

So a tremendous amount of noise, preparation, argument, all of that, the United States once again

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