CNN's Amanpour says Iran does not want to 'escalate' conflict with Israel as Iranian rockets strike country

CNN main planetary anchor Christiane Amanpour insisted Tuesday that Iran does not privation struggle to escalate betwixt itself and Israel, oregon the United States.

Amanpour made the connection during web sum of Iran launching rocket strikes into Israel successful retaliation for the country’s airstrike that killed Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah successful Lebanon past week. 

"Nobody, cipher - not the Lebanese nor the Iranians, privation this to escalate adjacent further. Iran does not privation an Israeli oregon a U.S. warfare against it," Amanpour told CNN anchor Dana Bash connected Tuesday morning, suggesting the existent rocket barrage was calculated to punctual minimal effect from Israeli forces.

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During a caller CNN segment, analogous Christiane Amanpour insisted that Iran does not privation struggle with Israel to escalate. (PBS/Screenshot)

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said this barrage of hundreds of missiles is successful retaliation for the sidesplitting of the panic radical person Nasrallah successful Beirut past week, and the sidesplitting of Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran successful July. 

The subject radical warned successful a connection released by Iranian authorities media that if Israel responds to the rocket barrage, "it volition look crushing attacks."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had vowed to onslaught backmost successful retaliation for Nasrallah's death, saying, "The humor of the martyr shall not spell unavenged."

During her quality connected CNN, Amanpour reported that Iranian leaders person been trying to amusement restraint truthful they tin debar a larger war.

"It’s incredibly important to beryllium perfectly precise astir what’s going on. So far, determination is nary grounds that thing has landed, that it is being intercepted, according to our correspondents connected the ground. And also, the United States and Israel said that they assessed that the targets would beryllium 3 Israeli aerial bases, and an quality base," she began.

"That's precise important to support successful mind," Amanpour said. 

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Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile strategy intercepts rockets, arsenic seen from Ashkelon, Israel, connected October 1, 2024. (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)

IDF spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari confirmed Tuesday that Israel’s forces did transportation retired "quite a fewer interceptions," and noted they’re "unaware of casualties." Still, helium revealed that determination were "some impacts successful the halfway and areas successful the southbound of the country."

About Iran and Lebanon’s position connected this conflict, Amanpour continued, "The Iranian overseas curate told maine successful New York during the United Nations that they were showing – and this is again earlier Friday’s assassination – that they were showing restraint and that Hezbollah was showing restraint arsenic well, and that it wanted, you know, to de-escalate each of this."

The analogous noted that, anterior to Nasrallah’s death, some countries felt they were "being entrapped and they’re trying to defy the conception of being trapped into this war."

"So past comes the assassination of their client, Hassan Nasrallah," she said, adding, "Hezbollah is meant to beryllium the frontline troops of Iran. So this effect from Iran is much apt due to the fact that it feels it has been near nary choice."

Despite Amanpour’s constituent that Iran and Lebanon don’t privation things to escalate, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called the onslaught "a important escalation by Iran, a important event" successful a White House briefing.

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