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This is one thing that I find to be very surprising is that while Iran is getting hits off on Israel, it seems that Israel is still making surgical basically executions of Iranian officials. Like they're straight up killing the people running the show. So we go to what Fox News Alert, Israel says it has eliminated four senior intel officials, including the IRGC's head of intelligence. This is the Quds Force headquarters, we believe. It comes as Iranian missile strikes kill at least eight and injured hundreds more as rockets, as rocket fire rained down on central and northern Israel overnight. Trey Yinks is live in Israel with the latest. Good morning, Trey.

Yeah, hey guys, good morning. Overnight missiles rained down across Israel, killing at least eight people. Some of them slipping past missile defense systems at five different locations, destroying both apartment buildings and residential blocks. We got to one scene in the heart of Tel Aviv just blocks away from the U.S. Embassy branch here that was also damaged in that strike. And when we got there, first responders were... It's been really surprising for me to see how many missiles go through and actually pierce the Iron Dome. I was really surprised to see it because like all last year when this was happening, this almost never happened. Rushing into the flames trying to look for survivors in the rubble. We spoke with one man named Gal.

what he had to say. When the missile arrived, we were in the staircase in the building. And the shock was like so huge. I never saw it in a piece of a rocket and to see an explosion right in front of my face and the butter face. Holy shit. A ballistic missile has just slammed into a building in the center of Tel Aviv. Right now first responders are trying to put out the flames in the distance.

see right now there are a variety of paramedics on the scene police officers and soldiers shit's still on fire here you'll see part of a collapsed building they don't know if anyone is currently inside but they are checking right now the iranians continue to launch waves and waves of ballistic missiles in this country overnight we understand there were 65 missiles and they were targeting a variety of locations we could hear the explosions in tel aviv as somewhere intercepted overhead by Israel's advanced missile defense systems. The Israelis are striking back, taking out top intelligence officials from the Iranian regime, including the country's chief intelligence officer and his deputy.

They also took out what they say are one. So this is one thing that I find to be very surprising is that while Iran is getting hits off on Israel, it seems that Israel is still making surgical, basically executions of Iranian officials. Like, they're straight up killing the people running the show. Yeah, they're cherry picking them out. Absolutely. Iron Dome is built more to stop rocket attacks. ICVMs are a lot more difficult for the Iron Dome to intercept. That's why we're seeing a lot more strikes to get through. You could be right. I don't know a lot about it. So maybe I should look that up and see it for myself. But either way, I mean, from a layman's perspective, you know, like, and I'm not an expert on this,

right? I'm not. But like, from a layman's perspective, it was shocking for me to see that. It was. Like, you know, better for worse. I was like, wow, holy shit. Third of the ballistic missile launching positions, despite the fact that the Israelis say they now have air superiority over the Iranian capital of Tehran. This is expected to continue for a number of days, if not weeks, as Israeli forces are trying to weaken the Iranian regime and target the country's nuclear facilities. I'm expecting a lot more booms. Hey, Trey, would you say the number of ballistic missiles, rockets and drones are leveling off from night after night after night? night because that's what Israel is banking on.

It seems like they're ramping up. I feel like every day, like in the evening, whenever this happens, I'm like, damn, there's more and more of it. Locate the launchers. They're going to run out of rockets. They can't replenish. And they have no air defense. So is that happening?

Look, the Iranians appear to be preserving what missiles they have left. We spoke with a senior Israeli intelligence official over the weekend. who indicated the assessment is that Iran has around 2,000 ballistic missiles. And the Israelis have been able to take out some of the stockpile. They've been able to target, like I said, a third of the launching positions. But this still gives Iran the capability to fire hundreds of ballistic missiles into this country. And that is why Israel is still in a state of emergency. The airport is closed.

And they are bracing for challenging days ahead. Officials speaking with Fox News say there will be more casualties, there will be more destruction. And you see in the aftermath videos here, these are not. like the rockets that came from Gaza or from southern Lebanon. These are missiles that can take out entire blocks in major cities like Tel Aviv. And from what we saw last night, and I was being very careful as we arrived on the scene less than an hour after the explosion of describing where it was. But now we can report because U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, came out publicly and

said there was... Iran launched the first new wave of missiles right now. Okay. Well, that means by the time this video is over, it's going to be about... time for that to happen. Damage to the U.S. Embassy branch here in Tel Aviv. This is a residential area. It is packed with civilians, cafes and restaurants. And when we got there, for blocks, you could see storefronts that were completely ripped

apart, glass shards all over the street from windows that were blown out. And so to answer your question, the Iranians are preserving what supply they have left. They certainly are in a position where eventually they will run out of ballistic missiles. but Israel is certainly not out of the woods yet, and we can expect more Israeli strikes throughout the day. Well, and it's also not, I mean, this is just totally ruling out that they don't get missiles from other places. I mean, didn't China say that they were going to give Iran missiles

or like sell them missiles or something like that? I mean, I could see that happening for sure. As they tried to mitigate that risk of ballistic missile fire toward major cities like Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the northern city of Haifa. China and Pakistan? Yeah. I'm curious. That was another one.

These missiles that the Iranians are fired, do they have targets or are they just shooting them out there? So the reason is because, number one, they're hitting civilians. And number two, when it comes to that embassy area that belongs to the United States. Keep in mind that while Iran is hitting civilians, the amount of people killed, civilians killed as far as I know inside of these like rocket salvos back and forth, Iran has had way more people get killed. killed way more. It's a six to 10 to one. I know it's it's about a 10 to one. Oh, that's where that missile was going to according to them. Yes, true, according to them. Yes, good point. They have precision guided munitions and they know broadly where they are firing these and without getting into too many details about some of the targets that were hit. I can broadly tell you

that the Iranians are going after military and civilian targets. Now with that said, the Israelis are striking in a much more precise manner when they hit Iran. They go after military leadership. Certainly civilians have been killed in Iran, but the focus of Israeli strikes, it's... I think that makes sense. I mean, Iran isn't trying to win over the hearts and the minds of the Israeli people, whereas Israel still wants to maintain a good relationship with the Iranian people to the best of it that it can. And it's still trying to play this game, like, oh, we're trying to liberate you.

So, yeah, that's obviously. I mean, yeah, yeah, of course. right? I mean, yeah, I mean, that's what they've, and by the way, that's what they've said, right? I mean, I'm not like, I'm not coming up with this inventing this in my mind. They've said this themselves. Bad take? That's what they said. They said. So obviously, you are going to take more care to not kill civilians if you are afraid of alienating the other civilians there. Fucking duh, obviously. They said this themselves. You see targets and its nuclear program-linked targets, along with the country's ballistic missile program.

When the Iranians fired these barrages of missiles, they're often hitting densely populated areas. And as we saw earlier in the day yesterday, at a different location that had been hit, the entire half of an apartment building collapsed after one of these missiles struck an area and killed two children along with two adults and many other people were injured. And just to give you a sense of the scene, because we often talk about the missiles and we talk about the ability to intercept them and how many are being fired by Iran. but the people that are paying the price, it's Israeli civilians. And when we arrived at that scene earlier... And Iranian civilians, too. Like, it's both, but yeah.

The day yesterday, separately from where you saw that insert where I spoke with the wounded man. We saw a son... I just want to pull this up so you guys can see this. Obviously, this is an AI summary, so it could be a little bit inaccurate or not completely true.

But in the last week, How many Israel citizens been killed by Iran and how many Iranian citizens been killed by Israel? Reports that at least 24 Iranian deaths, at least 2004. So it is almost a 10 to 1 ratio with some sources citing up to 206. So 224 is a more conservative. So you can see this, right? Iran has more people. It does have more people.

Absolutely. But I'm just set 406. Well, no, no. Some sources citing 406, at least, this is the certain amount. I'm comparing at least with at least. Is that not fair? You said, yeah, you said 206? Yeah, it probably went up, honestly, since the last time I saw it.

So, yeah, there you go. You said, oh, oh, I said 206 is not 406. Yeah, just dyslexia, my bad. But anyway, yeah, you can clearly see this. And so there have been a lot of Iranians that have been killed in this too. And he was wearing a hospital gown because he had been taken from the rubble to a local hospital. And he demanded that the doctors and nurses release him despite the fact that he was wounded because his father was still buried under the debris. And we brought you that story yesterday.

But unfortunately, his father was killed. His body was pulled from the rubble later in the day after we left that area. We saw that yesterday. And it speaks to the people who are affected here. They are civilians. They're family members. So you're literally contradicting yourself early. You talk about how bad the Iron Dome is.

Now you talk about how few civilians in Israel die, which isn't? Well, it's both, right? So it's actually really simple. You think that I'm contradicting myself because you're coming into this looking for a way. You're trying to misunderstand. You're not trying to understand what I'm saying. you're not taking a good faith effort in trying to figure out what's being discussed. You're coming at this from a perspective of accusing me of being a liar or a bad person.

So let's get that out of the way. Next, I don't know, probably should be on that guy. But the difference is that number one, people just said the Iron Dome is much better at shooting these solar missiles than these super fast hypersonic ones. So that's one. So I didn't know that. Obviously, it makes the iron dome look worse when that happens. Then on top of that, Israel having the iron dome that works some of the time is better than Iran having the fucking paper dome that works none of the time. And so, yes, obviously more missiles are probably getting through in Iran.

And if they're attacking scientists and these are people that are in residential areas, there's going to be a higher degree of civilian casualty. So, I mean, these are not conflicting things. This is just multiple perspectives. It's not completely one-dimensional. Like, I don't know. I think that a lot of people have a really, they have a really hard time processing or discussing anything that isn't completely one-dimensional, black and white.

And I think that's the reason why you get so much pushback in animosity from people like that. Who Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Iranian response. That's okay. have been lightly wounded, largely we're talking about civilians. According to the Israelis, 24 of them have been killed since Friday night when the Israelis launched this campaign targeting the Iranian regime. And so as we move forward here, this is really important to talk about the distinction between the target list here for the Iranians and the Israelis. But we expect very difficult days ahead, given the fact that the missile defense system here is not perfect.

And while they're able to shoot down a lot of the incoming fire, that also includes attack drones, these suicide chahedrons that the Russians also use in their war against Ukraine. Their goal here is to overwhelm Israel's missile defense system. And we've been out here on this balcony reporting live as these missile defense systems are active over Tel Aviv. And we have watched as these missiles slam. Well, yesterday I thought you were rather one-sided pro-Israel, but I realize you're pretty skeptical towards both sides now, which is great. I am one-sided towards Israel and the responses that they've made towards Hamas, because I think that Hamas is a disgusting terrorist organization that is full of people that are awful. They are religious

extremists. They are oppressive and they kill their own people. Iran is a different organ. Iran is a totality of people, whereas Hamas is a terrorist organization specifically. So in terms of Israel versus Hamas, I think that very clearly Hamas are the bad guys. Israel isn't the good guys, but Hamas or worse. That being compared to Iran, I don't think that's the case. I think it's more nuanced than that. So that's the reason why is that yesterday I was defending it because of that. I'm into this city and the destruction that they cause is oftentimes catastrophic.

And people saying Iran is worse, you could be, you're probably right. I mean, Iran is helping the groups like Hamas. But the difference is that people that are in Hamas, these are people that have willingly signed up to be part of a terrorist organization that kills people for disagreeing with them. Iranian citizens did not sign up to be Iranian citizens. That's spawn RNG. That's the difference. That's like saying all of the Palestinians are responsible for what Hamas says.

That's not fair. In the same way, all Iranians are not responding. Most Iranians don't even fucking support the government. That's the difference. If you're standing outside, you don't even need to be hit by the missile. You could just be a few blocks away and be killed by the blast wave. All right. So, Trey, I have two questions for you.

What's the feel there in Israel? What are the people who live there, the residents saying about this attack on Iran and vice versa? And also, what's the biggest fear? What is left? What should Israel and even America be scared of that is left in Iran? Is it more leaders? Is it the Ayatollah, the Supreme Leader? Is it Fordo, the nuclear site?

Yeah, look, the Iranians have two pieces of leverage left, and they're not relatively strong compared to what they had when you think back two years ago, when their proxies were very active in the region like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, or the Houthis in Yemen. These groups have been largely decimated by both the Israeli campaign and then in Yemen, partially the American campaign. So they don't have the proxies to respond. So they're relying on two things.

The country's ballistic missile program. They have to respond directly with military action, which is different than what they had to do before and they could act through proxies. Limited. They can certainly cause damage, but eventually they will run out of missiles. And then they have the ability to ratchet up what's left of their nuclear program.

Now, the Israelis have targeted two key facilities, the Natanz facility and the Isfahan facility. These are locations where the Iranians were, according to Israeli officials, pursuing ballistic missiles, but they were pursuing more importantly, according to the Israelis, clear weapons. And they were enriching uranium up to 60% purity,

very close to weapons-grade material. And that is one of three reasons the Israelis. And as a frame of reference for that, the level that they were supposed to enrich it to was like 3.5%. So it's not like, oh, you were at 55 and, you know, you were supposed to be at 53. No, you're at 60% and you were supposed to be at 3%. wasn't at 20%. There's 20% for some instances, but the thing that Iran was being graded off was 3.5. And even at 20%, I mean, three times as much.

Say they launched this campaign. The big X Factor here is the Ford Dow facility. This is their main facility. It is deep underground. And according to initial reports and officials that we've talked to over the past almost decade here, they say they don't have all of the munitions needed. Now we should note overnight there was some movement of American interest in American planes to the region. There are real questions. And when you ask about Israeli civilians and officials, this is the question that everyone has. Will the Americans get more directly involved? I spoke with a very high-ranking Israeli intelligence. See, this is the important part. This is what matters for me as an American. Are we getting involved? Okay, here we go.

For the weekend, we had an extensive 30-minute conversation, and we got into the details of this. He stopped short at talking about what the American support looks like. He said, right now he can tell me the Americans are helping to shoot down these incoming ballistic missiles. Sure, which I'm fine with that. In terms of military activity, what does that look like? Are you encouraging the Americans to get involved? And he stopped. He paused.

And he said, I can tell you, the Americans are not our colleagues. They are our friends. We would not be as successful as we are if we did not have the support of the Trump administration. But he didn't want to go into the details about possible American involvement in striking the Iranian regime. It is certainly possible. And when we talk to people in the streets, they're encouraging it. They want this to be over as quickly as possible. And they know that American involvement could lead to that. And so in the days ahead, we will look out to see if there is more movement of American forces in the region. I think there's a good chance that a lot of the, like maybe Israel doesn't understand that I don't think that they, they really,

how fatigued Americans are with wars in the Middle East. And I think that like ever since October 7th and all of the counter attacks and the focus on Palestine, the, you know, like Israel stocks are at an all-time low right now.

There's not a lot of people that are big fans of Israel right now. And so I think this is like the worst time possible to ask like the average, to try to like leverage the, like, leverage the, goodwill of the American public in your favor. To prep for a possible strike.

But one thing that we should note here, the Iranians have stopped short of doing one other thing that they can do. They have not directly targeted American bases in the region and they've not targeted embassies in the region like the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. This is important because it's a tactical decision on their part. They don't want the Americans involved. But we've heard President Trump. No, of course not.

If they attack the American embassy, then yeah, The U.S. would probably, if they killed people, I think that there would be a good chance that a lot of Americans would be okay with us attacking back. But I still think even if they killed Americans, a lot of Americans would probably say, well, we shouldn't have been there in the first place. It could have been a false flag by Israel. Let's just get the fuck out of the Middle East and let them deal with it. Like I think that both of these perspectives, I don't know which one will win out. I'm not sure. But I can see both of them being very popular. It would have to be very blatant. Yeah. And I think that majority of people will see it as a false flag.

And he said just yesterday, sometimes you have to let them fight it out. And that's exactly what's happening right now. Fight it out. But Trey, for the most part, the nuclear plants, they hit full for them. But it looks like Natanz and Fordo, nobody thinks that they've been disabled yet. The IAEA weighed in and said from their monitors, they were Vienna. It's like they're in the mountain, right? They're still intact. So you could never stop this operation. if your objective is to get rid of their nuclear program. Now, it's not done. It's certainly not done if their objective is to destroy the country's nuclear program.

The IAEA came out today and said they didn't have any evidence of material that was leaking. That is one thing that they monitor in the region. It's just part of their job here in the Middle East. But the other thing is that when you think about these facilities, many of them are deep underground. And again, this is the leverage that the regime still has left. They can say we're going to pull out of the current treaty that they're a part of to have oversight for their nuclear program. At this point, a lot of this conversation about leverage at the negotiating table is quite frankly irrelevant because there's a war happening between Israel and Iran right now. Now, the Trump administration, including the president, has been clear they'd like Iran to come back to the negotiating table.

But Israeli officials say they're not done. They have many targets. They still want to hit. Iran is a very large country. The regime has been preparing for this possibility. of a direct war with Israel for decades. And so the job will likely continue from an Israeli perspective. As for the country's nuclear program, the question is, as the Israelis continue to hit Iran, and if the Americans get more directly involved, will the regime say, look, we want to come back to the table and we want to have an agreement. They were supposed to have a six-

I think there's a chance that they will come back to the table eventually if you just keep killing the officials. Eventually, they will because they're going to want to stop being killed. Yeah, I mean, straight up. If you just keep killing them over and over and over, that will work. Who? The people that don't want to die. Good luck with that?

I guarantee you it works. Ron can fight for years. Yep. And then eventually they'll stop. Israel said no negotiations. Israel isn't a resource for a prolonged country-to-country conflict. So Israel doesn't want to show up like the underdog? Well, I'm talking about like, I mean, really, it's very obvious that America

is sanctioning the i think that they are at least allowing these things to happen and as i said i think it's no coincidence that this stuff happened a day after the 60 day window to negotiate with america was over seemed pretty obvious to me that's what's going on right extremely obvious yeah exactly i'm in iran and we're rising and celebrating the destruction of the destruction for tv yeah i'm sure there's a lot of people in iran that feel that way definitely nuclear talks just yesterday and of course those were canceled as a result of this conflict. Trey, great job. You just on a few hours ago. We're pointing live from a bomb. Thanks. Great information. Yeah, I just don't think there is any way we should have talks now. You had your

chance for talks. You can't, now you're going to talk to try to preserve it. You have to preserve the talks. They, no, they can't have the talks. They have to. That's the only way that you can solve this. There's two ways for this to go for this to end. The regime gets overthrown or you talk with them and you establish a trade deal and you gradually de-escalate this over the next 30 years. Those are the two outcomes. As far as I know, nothing else happens. Nuclear program? So what?

We can remove sanctions? You can't take them seriously. I think the president still wants to get a piece of chance, especially when you talk about the escalation where the Supreme Leader could be taken out. And then that starts a whole religious war because Iran wants to unite the Muslim world. and I think if you take out the Supreme Leader, that happens. So he wants to give him one more shot. Do you want peace or it can escalate that?

He wants de-escalation right now. He wants a deal. He says he does foresee that. I mean, it's, again, it's another Trump mafia tactic. This is the same thing he did with the Taliban. Or like, whoever the fuck it was, he says, okay, well, you know, if you attack any Americans, here's your house. I'm going to bomb your house and kill your family.

And then there weren't any more attacks. That's it. And so it's just, it's another Trump mafia tactic. And that's what he does. And by the way, I mean, that's not a bad thing. I mean, yeah, that's, I mean, wouldn't you want somebody doing that for you? And so if this is your leader, you'd want that. And so why Taliban win? Well, I mean, they didn't win. We just simply stop being involved. That's it. And it's effective for sure. It is. And it's a power play. It is. But like you lose that power play if you've already blown up the house. house. You see what I'm saying? And so that's the reason why they're not killing the main leader. Because if you already did that, then you have no collateral. People don't have anything to lose. Biggest attack on Israel yet incoming. Is it happening now? Deal will be done and he will help negotiate that just like he did with India and Pakistan. But we could take out their gas infrastructure if they go after American troops or they go after us.

I'm Steve Ducey. I'm bring and kill me. Yeah. I mean, like I had not yet. probably in one to two hours. Oh, boy. Yeah, I mean, I think in general, like, if they keep killing officials, eventually they will make Iran come to the table because a lot of the officials will be tired of being killed. That's just straight up what I think is going to happen.

Like, they will. I mean, like, eventually they're going to be tired of dying. It's naive. Okay. I'm telling you, it's, it's, like, think about it like this. If you are an Iranian official and you're making these decisions

and you see people every single day that are getting killed all around you, eventually the people that are still in charge are going to say, guys, we've had enough that they are. They're going to stop. They're going to stop. Eventually they're going to stop.

And if they don't stop, then the next wave of them will stop. And if they don't stop, then the next wave of them will stop. And then eventually you will get to a wave of them that stops it. Hitler didn't. Hitler killed himself. And there aren't that many officials left. Assets are going to be destroyed until they surrender to the table. Eventually they'll want to survive. Yeah. People will eventually

want to survive. A lot of extremism and things like this. Extremism, yes, it's very strong, but people's self-preservation is the strongest thing. And everybody is like, oh yeah, yeah, we're going to be a martyr. This sounds great. everybody else around you is getting killed and being martyred constantly, and you're going to have some people that think, ah, you know what? Maybe I don't want to be a martyr yet. Come on. Think about it. And by the way, I think this is what's going to happen. I could be wrong. But let's wait and see what happens. Yeah, I mean, maybe I'm wrong. That's my guess.