Iran fires missiles at US base in Iraq
News reported : From the Pentagon that
this attack began about three hours ago.
it involved more than a dozen missiles
being fired from inside Iran targeting
those air bases in Iraq as you mentioned
that house US troops this is the exact
scenario that the US had been preparing
for and essentially that Iran had warned
that it would carry out in retaliation
for the killing of general Soleimani the.
Iranians had made it clear that they would launch direct attacks in response and wouldn't rely on their proxies and
the Americans came to believe that those direct attacks would be on US forces in the region so they were prepared for this likely hunkered down as you mentioned there are early reports of
Iraqi casualties the Pentagon says it is still carrying out a damage assessment at those bases and is still waiting to see exactly how much damage there is before determining what kind of response
there will be as we understand it there have been at least two waves of ballistic missile attacks from Iran tonight but again the details still unfolding at this hour it's going to be
a very tricky and delicate situation for the White House at this hour we understand that .
President Trump is monitoring the situation from the White
House Situation Room the ball is
effectively now in his court he has to decide if or how he responds to this attack obviously that will depend on the
magnitude of the damage and the attack itself earlier today though he issued a
stern warning from the Oval Office that
any Iranian retaliation would be met
with a full-throated American response
perhaps there is some room to
things back here you heard the president make reference to cultural sites today
and how he might try and avoid him that is a change in tone from earlier this week when he said he would target
Iranian cultural sites that would
violate international law so Donna
perhaps if he's willing to step back
their all-out war can be avoided it's
all going to unfold very rapidly .
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