What led to Israel-Iran attacks?
The State Department connected Thursday informed aggregate U.S.-allied governments successful the Middle East successful beforehand of Israel's strikes connected Iran, 4 sources told CBS News.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally reached retired to a fig of allies, the sources said.
The main connection conveyed by the Trump medication successful its outreach to allies was that the strikes were not a U.S. cognition and did not impact American assets, and that the U.S. preferred diplomacy to subject force.
The content near with aggregate determination allied governments was that the Trump medication was trying to region itself from the subject enactment and the fallout that mightiness hap arsenic a result, including unintended consequences for allies successful the portion — peculiarly those that big U.S. forces.
CBS News has reached retired to the State Department and White House for comment.
The State Department did not travel the modular signifier of providing details of calls to overseas ministers.
Israel said its airstrikes deed Iranian atomic facilities, probe scientists and apical subject officials aboriginal Friday greeting section time, successful what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested could beryllium a multiday operation.
The Trump medication has said publically it was not militarily progressive successful Israel's strikes, though it had beforehand announcement of Israel's program to onslaught Iran. The U.S. did assistance Israel intercept Iranian missiles fired successful retaliation, a U.S. authoritative and a White House authoritative confirmed to CBS News. Israeli officials person told CBS News their authorities gave beforehand informing to the U.S. but person remained vague astir the grade of coordination.
Iran's subject retaliated against the Israeli strikes with a question of rocket and drone attacks connected Israel that injured much than 20 people, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to the strikes, Iran threatened to target U.S. bases successful the portion if it is attacked.
Rubio has warned Iran against targeting U.S. forces.
President Trump is besides seeking to onslaught a woody with Iran to bounds the size of its atomic program. In a Friday greeting Truth Social post, Mr. Trump told Iran to "make a deal, earlier determination is thing left."
The U.S. and Iran were acceptable to clasp talks Sunday, aggregate U.S. officials told CBS News. Some reports successful Iranian media outlets indicated Iran would apt nary longer enactment successful the negotiations.
Multiple sources told CBS News allied countries fearfulness a wider warfare successful the region, and unintended consequences that whitethorn travel from this onslaught connected Iran's atomic facilities.
The U.S. has aerial bases successful Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, lodging U.S. subject instrumentality on with American work members. The U.S. besides has troops successful Syria and Iraq.
Several of the United States' determination allies besides person relations with Israel via the Abraham Accords, a acceptable of normalization deals betwixt Israel and Arab states struck during Mr. Trump's archetypal term. Those deals nexus them some to Israel and its largest weapons provider, the U.S.
A fig of these aforesaid U.S.-allied governments person their ain concerns astir the Iranian atomic programme and Iran's signifier of backing militias passim the Middle East, but powerfully entity to immoderate attempts astatine outer authorities alteration efforts oregon actions that could ignite nationalist sentiment and inflame proxy forces that could enactment them astatine risk.
The proximity of Arab states similar Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Iran besides makes radiation fallout and contamination from strikes connected Iranian atomic facilities a interest for their governments. For example, the Bushehr atomic facility successful Iran is crossed the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, which has an extended U.S. subject beingness connected its shores.
Overnight Thursday, International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi claimed Iranian authorities had reported that radiation from Natanz was not astatine a worrisome point. Since that time, though, strikes person continued, and it is not wide erstwhile they volition end.
Margaret Brennan is moderator of "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" connected CBS. Based successful Washington, D.C., Brennan is besides the Network's main overseas affairs analogous and a contributing analogous to 60 Minutes. Additionally, she appears regularly connected the "CBS Evening News," starring sum from Washington erstwhile quality breaks connected the governmental and overseas affairs fronts.
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