STRIKE. HE SPOKE TO TOM LLAMAS.
>> Reporter: ISRAEL
AND IRAN TONIGHT
PLAYING DOWN THE
APPARENT ISRAELI
RETALIATORY STRIKE
INSIDE IRANIAN
TERRITORY.
VIDEO SHOWING ONLY
GLIMPSES THIS MORNING
OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT
SYSTEMS FIRING AROUND
THE CITY OF ISFAHAN.
ISRAEL FIRED THREE
AIR-LAUNCHED BALLISTIC
MISSILES INTO IRAN
LAST NIGHT TARGETING
AN IRANIAN AIR BASE
ACCORDING TO OFFICIALS
FAMILIAR WITH THE
OPERATION.
IRAN DID NOT STRIKE
BACK AS THREATENED,
INSTEAD LOCAL MEDIA
CONTROLLED BY THE
STATE DOWNPLAYED THE
ATTACK AND SHOWED LIFE
IN ISFAHAN AS NORMAL.
THE NUCLEAR FACILITY
NEARBY UNAFFECTED.
TONIGHT, IRAN TELLING
NBC NEWS THEY WILL NOT
ESCALATE THEIR
CONFLICT WITH ISRAEL
DESCRIBING LAST
NIGHT’S ATTACK AS
CHILD’S PLAY.
>> IS IRAN DONE FOR
RIGHT NOW SENDING ANY
MORE MISSILES OR
ATTACKING ISRAEL?
>> Translator: IF
ISRAEL RETALIATES AND
COMES OVER TO NEW
ADVENTURISM, WE WILL
RESPOND.
IF NOT, THEN WE ARE
DONE.
WE ARE CONCLUDED.
>> Reporter: IRAN’S
FOREIGN MINISTER,
HOSSEIN
AMIRABDOLLAHIAN, WOULD
NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE
AN ATTACK BY ISRAEL.
SPEAKING THROUGH AN
IRANIAN GOVERNMENT
INTERPRETER, HE SAID
THEY QUICKLY DOWNED
THE DRONES FLYING OVER
ISFAHAN.
>> Translator: THEY
TOOK OFF FROM INSIDE
IRAN, AND THEY FLEW
FOR, LIKE, A FEW
HUNDRED METERS, AND
THEN THEY WERE DOWNED
AND STRUCK
BY OUR AIR DEFENSE,
AND IT HASN’T BEEN
PROVEN THERE IS A
CONNECTION BETWEEN
THIS AND ISRAEL.
>> WHEN YOU ATTACKED
ISRAEL, YOU
TELEGRAPHED THAT
ATTACK AND LET OTHER
ARAB NATIONS KNOW THIS
WAS HAPPENING.
DID ANYONE, ANY OTHER
COUNTRY TELL IRAN LAST
NIGHT, THIS ATTACK WAS
COMING?
>> Translator: WHAT
HAPPENED LAST NIGHT
WAS NOT A STRIKE.
>> BUT DID ANY OTHER
COUNTRY TELL YOU
SOMETHING WAS
HAPPENING, AND THEY
WOULD INVADE YOUR
AIRSPACE AND ATTACK
POSSIBLY ONE OF YOUR
BASES?
>> Translator: TWO OR
THREE.
THEY’RE MORE LIKE TOYS
THAT OUR CHILDREN PLAY
WITH, NOT DRONES.
IT WAS NOT WORTH
TELLING US BEFORE IT
HAPPENED.
>> IN YOUR OPINION,
THAT WAS NOT AN ATTACK
BY ISRAEL LAST NIGHT
EVEN THOUGH WE’VE SEEN
EXPLOSIONS ON VIDEO?
>> Translator: WE ARE
INVESTIGATING THIS,
THE MATTER, THE CLAIM
THAT IS MADE IN THE
MEDIA ACCORDING TO OUR
INFORMATION IS NOT
ACCURATE, AND ISRAEL
IS TRYING TO
AFTER PROPAGANDA.
>> Reporter: THE
FOREIGN MINISTER
WARNED IF THEY STRUCK
AGAIN, IRAN WOULD
RESPOND WITH FORCE.
>> Translator: IF
ISRAEL WANTS TO DO
ANOTHER ADVENTURISM
AND ACTS AGAINST THE
INTERESTS OF IRAN AND
OUR NEXT RESPONSE WILL
BE IMMEDIATE AND WILL
BE AT MAXIMUM LEVEL.
>> Reporter: A SOURCE
FAMILIAR WITH THE
MATTER TELLS NBC NEWS,
ISRAEL TOLD THE U.S.
AHEAD OF TIME ABOUT
THE STRIKE.
ISRAEL ATTACKED IRAN’S
EMBASSY COMPOUND IN
SYRIA EARLIER THIS
MONTH, AND IRAN
RESPONDED FIRING MORE
THAN 300 DRONES AND
MISSILES, NEARLY ALL
OF THEM SHOT DOWN BY
ISRAEL WITH
CONSIDERABLE HELP FROM
THE UNITED STATES AND
OTHER ALLIES.
ISRAEL, IT SEEMS,
DOESN’T WANT TO
ESCALATE THE SHOOTING
WAR WITH IRAN EITHER
MAKING NO PUBLIC
COMMENTS ABOUT IT, NO
PUBLIC REACTION FROM
PRESIDENT BIDEN
EITHER, ONLY THIS FROM
SECRETARY OF STATE.
>> I’M NOT GOING TO
SPEAK TO ANYTHING
OTHER THAN TO SAY WE