Clarissa Ward: We Haven’t Had Any Official Confirmation for Ceasefire from Israel and Iran

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WARD: “One and done, one and done. That‘s the message that they were trying to project. It‘s a playbook that we‘ve seen before in 2020, after President Trump ordered the killing of qassem soleimani, they responded with the strike on al-asad airbase in Iraq, in anbar province. But they did so in a way where they telegraphed in advance nobody was seriously injured or killed. And so the region was able to move forward. Now, there are still things that can go wrong. Firstly, we haven‘t had any official confirmation from the Iranians or the Israelis. We know that prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was with his security cabinet earlier. Now he‘s in a more narrow security cabinet meeting. We have been seeing as fred was just reporting an intensification of Israeli strikes against Iranian targets, a lot of mixed messages coming from the IDF. Prime minister Netanyahu earlier had said, we‘re very, very close to finishing what we need to do.”