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Israel, Iran Trade Attacks After Israel Targets Nuclear Sites; Sources: U.S. Still Hopes Nuclear Talks With Iran Sunday; Khamenei: Israel "Started This And Triggered A War"; Israeli Spy Agency Unveils Covert Operation Inside Iran; Oil Prices Surge, Stocks Drop As Israel- Iran Tensions Escalate; Crews Scour Wreckage, Investigate Cause Of Air India Crash; Sole Survivor Of Deadly Air India Plane Crash Speaks Out; Flyovers & Firepower Displays Planned For Army Celebration; Source: Kanye West Wants To Support Diddy In Federal Court. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired June 14, 2025 - 01:00   ET

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BRIAN ABEL, CNN ANCHOR: Hello to our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world. I'm Brian Abel in Atlanta. We are following breaking news this hour.

We begin in Israel where emergency crews rushed to the scene after a deadly Iranian strike south of Tel Aviv. Officials say one person is dead and more than 20 others injured after a missile hit near private homes there. Rescuers are still checking if there are more victims in the damaged buildings.

Hours earlier, new explosions were heard over Jerusalem after officials warned a wave of missiles was headed toward Israel. In Iran, state media said fire had broken out at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport and that several explosions were heard over the capital.

All this is happening after Iran launched multiple waves of strikes on Israel, killing a woman east of Tel Aviv and leaving dozens injured. The Iranian action was its response to Israel's attacks on targets across Iran on Friday. Among other targets, Israel hit Iran's nuclear facilities and killed a number of top military leaders.

Iranian president later warned there will be a price to pay.

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MASOUD PEZESHKIAN, IRANIAN PRESIDENT (through translation): Of course, the Iranian nation and its officials will not remain silent in the face of this crime. The Islamic Republic of Iran's legitimate and powerful response will make the enemy regret its foolish actions.

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ABEL: But Israel says it launched its attacks because Iran came within striking distance of building a nuclear weapon. Israeli Prime Minister addressing the Iranian people directly on Friday.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: The Islamic regime which has oppressed you for nearly 50 years threatens to destroy my country, the state of Israel.

The objective of Israel's military operation is to remove this threat, both the nuclear threat and the ballistic missile threat to Israel. And as we achieve our objectives, we're also clearing the path for you to achieve your objective, which is freedom.

In the past 24 hours, we've taken out top military commanders, senior nuclear scientists, the Islamic regime's most significant enrichment facility and a large portion of its ballistic missile arsenal.

More is on the way. The regime doesn't know what hit them, they don't know what will hit them.

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ABEL: Let's bring in Nada Bashir now who's been monitoring developments from London and she joins us live.

So what's latest, Nada?

NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on-camera): Look, Brian, that warning that you heard there from the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that more is on the way is really signaling and indicating the potential escalation that we could continue to see that this is not a sort of one-time tit-for-tat attack, but rather we could continue to see this for over the coming days, perhaps even longer, and that is the fear here. We've been hearing from Israeli sources speaking to CNN who have alluded to this potential military strategy, that this is not the typical tit-for-tat that we would see in previous instances of confrontation between Israel and Iran, but rather that Israel may be following a more escalatory strategy looking to broaden and expand its targeting of Iran from a strategic perspective.

And the fear, of course, is that we could see that expansion beyond the current nuclear military targets that we have seen since the early hours of Friday morning.

And, of course, what we've seen over the last few hours is continued Iranian missiles, retaliatory strikes by the Iranian regime targeting Israeli territory. We've heard from the Israeli ambassador to the United States who says he believes around 150 ballistic missiles were launched by Iran targeting Israeli territory.

And as you mentioned, Brian, we have seen many of those missiles being intercepted. We've also seen many making impact and targeting areas where there are, of course, civilians, although the Iranian regime has said it was successful in targeting military assets or military industrial centers as well in parts of Tel Aviv.

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But, again, these are areas where there are civilians also. And just in the last hour or so, we've heard from the Israeli emergency services who have said that at least one person was killed and more over a dozen wounded following strikes near homes just south of Tel Aviv.

So clearly, we are seeing that escalation, that expansion. Now there is also concern around what may take place in Iran in terms of Israel's counter response as well.

We've seen the targeting of nuclear facilities, we've seen the targeting and killing assassination of top military generals and nuclear scientists, but now overnight we've been hearing reports from Iranian state media around a fire at the international airport in Tehran, raising concerns that potentially the Israeli military is now focusing its attacks on strategic civilian infrastructure as well, so that could mark a significant escalation.

Of course, we have been hearing questions around what this would mean for diplomatic efforts at this stage. The messaging that we are hearing from the Israeli government appears to indicate there is no off-ramp at this stage, although we have heard from the U.S. President Donald Trump, who has once again reiterated on his social media platform, Truth Social, a warning to the Iranian regime to come back to the negotiating table with regards to its nuclear program, to accept the demands of the United States, fearing the worst, of course, that warning from President Trump on Truth Social.

So clearly there is some suggestion of a potential off-ramp from the United States, which said that it had no part in the actual attacks, although the Trump administration is said to have been notified, according to Israeli sources speaking to CNN, but again, the fear of escalation appears to be palpable at this stage.

ABEL: And that is the fear. CNN's Nada Bashir in London for us. Nada, thank you.

For more perspective, we are joined by Gideon Levy, a columnist for Israel's Haaretz newspaper from Tel Aviv.

And Gideon, I first want to hear what your experience was like for the night there.

GIDEON LEVY, COLUMNIST, HAARETZ NEWSPAPER: Good morning, Brian. It wasn't the most pleasant night in my life, obviously. Nothing to compare to what the people of Gaza are going through, but it was tough. There were three sirens around the night, three times rushing and running to the shelters, booms in the skies, reports about casualties and destruction.

It was a tough night, no doubt.

ABEL: Gideon, from your conversations with friends, neighbors, was what's happened over the past 48 hours or so expected? What, if anything, have people been able to do to prepare?

LEVY: There is no panic and there is no feeling that we had to prepare ourselves. Don't forget that we have the 20 months of an ongoing war in the northern front and the attack over Gaza, 20 months of lack of normality.

So we didn't come out of the blue sky. And therefore, Israelis right now are on one hand very, very tired from all the things which takes place. On the other hand, we also are more experienced. I guess that the foreigner who would come to Tel Aviv last night would freak out. For us, it becomes a kind of routine, which is abnormal by itself.

ABEL: That's terrifying in and of itself, just the fact that this could be normal for anyone.

Gideon, I want to ask you from a diplomacy perspective a question here. Where do you see this conflict going? Can this be a brief flash of the pan? Iran accepts its losses. Israel accepts the retaliation. And everybody takes a step back. Or do we see a conflict that continues to escalate and then grows beyond its current borders?

LEVY: We must take some lessons from history. The war between Iran and Iraq lasted around 10 years. Iran is a big country, and Iran can absorb a long war. Israel is much more fragile from this point of view. I'm not sure we are prepared for a 10 years war.

Unlikely, there was in Lebanon and in Gaza, which was quite clear from the beginning that they will be limited by time because it's a small piece of land, very small rivals, not very equipped. The fact that the war in Gaza still takes place is quite surprising. It should have lasted a few weeks and not more than that.

With Iran, it's a different story because, as I say, their capabilities, or at least what is being told to us about their capabilities, are much beyond a short war. And this can become into a war of attrition for many, many months. It can also get more complicated than this if the Americans will come in, if other players in the region will come in. It's very explosive, very dangerous.

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Right now, I don't see what can end it. The scenario that you just described now of ending it within a few days is almost science fiction, I think. I don't see it happening.

Hopefully it will, you know, but I don't see it happening.

ABEL: Gideon, let's talk a little bit more about the other players in the region, because Benjamin Netanyahu has had a lot of pressure on him ever since the October 7th attacks, really.

But also leading up to just as last couple of days. Does what's happened here in the last 48 hours change that for him?

LEVY: It changed everything. Sure, if you speak about the domestic arena, Netanyahu of today is a different Netanyahu than three days ago.

This was his life project. Iran was always his life project. He was very criticized about it, saying again and again that he's just talking and never did anything.

And if he did, he just created damage in putting an end to the agreement between the United States and other countries and Iran. But now that's his claim of fame. And you know, the first days are always very promising. And everyone adores the James Bond capabilities of the army and of the Mossad. And everyone is so proud. This will pass very soon when the price tag will appear.

But for now, Netanyahu of today is a much stronger prime minister in Israel than two days ago, and with many more prospects for the future.

ABEL: Gideon, you said you can't see this conflict ending in the next handful of days. You don't see it being a flash in the pan.

How do you see it ending?

LEVY: I wish I knew. If I would see it ending, I would say, let's do it now. Why wait? First of all, Brian, every war has an end. I mean, there are no endless wars. There are endless conflicts like ours, but there are no endless wars. So, something must come in.

Obviously, it cannot come into an end only with an intervention of superpowers like the United States. If the United States will come with proposals to the Iranians and push Israel to stop the bombarding, maybe the miracle will happen. It is still possible.

It is still possible because there is some channel open between the United States and Iran. If the United States will get into the war, if after an attack of the Iranian on American bases in the Gulf or elsewhere, then we get more complicated. Then the end will be even far.

Let's cross our fingers that the United States will put an end to it. The only power that can put an end to it is, as usual, the United States. And as usual, the Americans are not doing enough.

ABEL: Yes. Gideon Levy, thank you for your insight, sir. And we certainly hope that you stay safe.

LEVY: Thank you, Brian.

ABEL: Iran says the U.S. is complicit in Friday's Israeli strikes. Ahead, we look into how much the White House knew in advance of Israel's attacks.

Plus, Donald Trump is urging Iran to come back to the table for nuclear talks.

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[01:18:16] ABEL: An update now on the situation in the Middle East, Iran is attacking Israel after Friday's Israeli airstrikes and now Israeli officials say one person is dead, 23 others injured when an Iranian missile struck near private homes.

Earlier, CNN spoke by phone with an Israeli woman who described what she's gone through over the past 24 hours watching missiles fly overhead.

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LILACH, WITNESS IN ISRAEL: Right now, I am safe. I don't feel safe, but I am. My family is scattered around the country. My dad and mom here and my sister, but other family members are, you know, all around, we're near the shelters. It's scary.

You can see the light from afar and you know that it's getting closer. You can hear the bombings, but you can hear them kind of like all the time. So you never know when it's Iran, when it's Lebanon, you never really know.

So yesterday night, it started with like sirens that they just wanted to inform us that something is about to happen. And we -- we really didn't get much sleep yesterday. I didn't sleep all night and then it started the bombings, the sirens, the alarms on the phone, the anxiety.

I will be honest, I've lost, well, not lost 32 of my friends were killed in battle since October 7th. I've been in countless funerals, countless Shivas. It's like when you come to a house after the funeral. I've been in countless hospitals to my friends to visit them and just to do whatever I can to help.

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And whenever a siren is going off, whenever I get a ring on my phone, it's every time I think it's another call to tell me that another friend of mine was killed in battle. I -- I'm telling you right now, I'm shaking every -- we've lost countless of great men, and it's not even men, they're -- they're kids, my age, I'm 23 and they're even younger than me. It's from 18 till 22, 23, maybe 25, people that could have been, you know, having their own families living their best life, but instead they're killed in a battle in Gaza, in Lebanon, and I -- I can't even describe how, how it feels to live like that every day.

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ABEL: On Friday, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations addressed an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.

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AMIR SAEID IRAVANI, IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UN: To who support this regime with the United States at the forefront must understand that they are complicit by aiding and enabling these crimes by they share full responsibility for the consequences. The United States complicity in this terrorist attack is beyond doubt. The officials of the United States have expressly and presently confessed the willful aid and assistance in the crimes and gross violation that Israeli regime committed as of last night, including the deliberate transfer of arms, we will not forget that our people lost their lives as a result of the Israeli attacks with American weapons.

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ABEL: The U.S. says it is helping defend Israel from Iran's retaliatory strikes. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone on Friday and while the U.S. says it was not part of the attack on Iran, questions do remain over how much the U.S. administration knew before Israel strikes.

CNN's Kristin Holmes has more from the White House.

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KRISTIN HOLMES, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Much of Friday was trying to figure out what the United States knew, what the administration knew and when, because that Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State statement that we had seen on Thursday that really clearly laid out this was a unilateral decision for Israel to strike Iran. The United States had nothing to do with it.

Also saying that U.S. personnel should not be attacked in any way because again, they were not involved. However, we did start to learn some details on Friday that signified that, that wasn't entirely accurate. One was that Donald Trump, we learned, had multiple phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu including before those strikes.

At one point, Donald Trump told reporters he knew everything about what was happening and now the question is, what exactly are they going to do next?

Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump spoke again on Friday. No details yet. No readout of that call, but we did learn that U.S. officials say that the United States is helping determine missiles that are coming into Israel now as a response from Iran. And that official said that this is because there are tens of thousands of American citizens that are in Israel.

They also said there's a lot of U.S. military assets, so clearly here trying to say this is because they want to protect Americans. This is not necessarily because this is not a unilateral decision, but it's a little bit of splitting hairs here to say that they're not involved. The United States is not involved in any of this, but they are protecting Israel.

Now, of course, the big question the administration is working on is whether or not they can still get Iran to the table in the Iranian nuclear deal talks, they were supposed to have the six round of talks on Sunday in Oman, Middle Eastern, and Envoy, Steve Witkoff was going to be present with Iranians. It is unclear if that's going to still happen.

The administration says they still want to bring Iran to the table. They still think that they might show up, and Donald Trump, for his part has really been trying to push the Iranians on this essentially saying, it could be too late. Look at what's already happened. I gave you a lot of chances. Now Israel has bombed you. You better show up to the table, kind of giving a loose threat that things could be worse if they don't make a deal.

Some administration officials have cast doubt on the idea that Iran is going to show up at all given these strikes, but there are still a lot within the White House in particular that believed that this could still happen even as early as Sunday.

Kristin Holmes, CNN, the White House.

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ABEL: Israel spy agency revealing rare footage of its secret operation inside Iran before it launched the military strikes there.

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Details just ahead.

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ABEL: All eyes are on the Middle East right now as Israel and Iran ramp up attacks on each other.

More explosions were heard overnight in Tehran and Tel Aviv where one of the latest missile strikes hit a residential area just south of the city. Rescue crews finding a number of people trapped under the rubble.

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Iran says it targeted Israeli military centers and air bases, Friday, at least three people have been killed in Israel, and dozens more injured according to authorities.

Iran's supreme leader issuing a warning to Israel.

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AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI, IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER (through translation): Life will become bitter for them without a doubt. They should not think they struck and it's over, no. They started this and triggered a war. We will not allow them to walk away unscathed from the great crime they have committed.

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ABEL: Iran's retaliation came swiftly after Israel targeted its nuclear and military sites. The country's UN envoy says, Israeli strikes have killed at least 78 people, including some of Iran's most senior leaders. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, vowing that more strikes are on the way.

The sounds of loud booms were heard in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem earlier as Iran launched what it describes as hundreds of ballistic missiles. You see one of them there in response to Israel's military strikes against this nuclear program on Friday.

CNN's Clarissa Ward has more from her vantage point on the ground in Israel.

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CLARISSA WARD, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONA CORRESPONDENT: We had been anticipating that there might be some kind of a strike on Iran for days now, but I don't think anyone imagined anything like the scale, the breadth of this.

As you're well aware, the airspace over Israel is closed. The air spare -- air airspace over Jordan is closed. We actually had to fly to Sharmel Shake in Egypt and cross the border that way. And as we were driving towards the border, we could see the sky lighting up in the distance as those intercept as were intercepting those Iranian missiles. We have heard a lot of fighter jets also over in the skies. We heard a drone recently up in the sky.

So, a fair amount of activity going on here. And it's interesting, we've only been on the ground for less than an hour, but when you talk to Israelis, they really feel it's different too. And while depending on who you talk to, there's an element of pride at the kind of military and intelligence prowess that Israel has showed with this operation against Iran. There is also a great deal of anxiety because everyone's senses that this is different to last summer when you had that tit-for-tat between Iran and Israel.

This is different than when the Houthis and Yemen were attacking when Hezbollah, when Hamas even were attacking. This feels very real, and particularly with those landfalls taking place in Tel Aviv in areas around Tel Aviv inhabited civilian areas, there is absolutely a charge sense of anxiety here. And I should say not just here across the entire region as everybody is kind of girding themselves or bracing themselves for further escalation with no real clear off ramp on the table at the moment for either side.

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ABEL: Spy agency Mossad has unveiled some of the sophisticated intelligence operation behind its military strikes against Iran.

They shared video with CNN that shows Israeli operatives smuggling weapons into Iran before Friday's strikes. And an Israeli security official telling CNN how they created a base inside Iran to launch explosive drones.

CNN's Matthew Chance has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Behind the unprecedented Israeli strikes across Iran, a sophisticated intelligence operation with Mossad releasing these rare images of what it says are its covert operations, deep inside enemy territory.

In this video, two massed operatives can be seen crouching down adjusting equipment. One, Israeli security official told CNN, Mossad had established a drone base in Iran ahead of the strikes to target the Islamic Republic from within.

This video appears to show a drone targeting a missile launcher. Another shows the crosshairs of a drone over a target, which appears to be a truck. Israeli officials say precision weapons were smuggled into central Iran and positioned near missile systems.

There are striking similarities with Ukrainian attacks deep inside Russia earlier this month where spectacular, covert drone strikes destroyed valuable Russian strategic bombers.

But alongside the Israeli hits on Iranian military and nuclear targets, key leadership figures were also targeted and killed in pinpoint strikes, likely driven by highly accurate Israeli intelligence. Including top commanders of the powerful Revolutionary Guard Corps and multiple nuclear scientists, according to Iranian officials.

But the ongoing Israeli campaign is high risk, already provoking serious retaliation across Israel, including on Tel Aviv, and the escalating conflict could also bolster hard line Iranian calls for a nuclear deterrent, meaning this stunning Israeli intelligence coup may actually increase the nuclear threat it was meant to remove.

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Matthew Chance, CNN London.

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ABEL: Mehran Kamrava is a Professor of Government at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar and is joining us from Los Angeles.

And Mehran, we saw President Trump's reaction today saying he gave Iran 60 days, then Israel's attack on day 61. Between that and the amount of phone calls between Trump and Netanyahu, just how involved do you believe the United States was before Israel's attack?

MEHRAN KAMRAVA, PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT, GEORGETOWN UNIV. IN QATAR: Well, there appears to have been a fair amount of coordination and collaboration beforehand between the United States and Israel in the lead up to the attack, the withdrawal of family members of American diplomats from Iraq, the drawdown in Kuwait and Bahrain. All of these point to a fair amount of advanced knowledge, if not coordination between the U.S. and Israel.

ABEL: We now know Mehran, that the U.S. has played a role, at least in defending Israel's skies against Iran's counter attack. Where is the line for the U.S. in this conflict, and how strong are the chances it gets pulled past that line?

KAMRAVA: I think the chances that the U.S. would get pulled into another escalating conflict, unfortunately at this point are fairly high despite President Trump's reluctance to be involved and -- and to kind of fall for Netanyahu's trap.

But the U.S. has historically rush to Israel's defense, and there's no reason to suspect that this time would be any different. So, and -- and what we are seeing is that politically the Iranians have no choice other than to retaliate massively.

And -- and so unfortunately, we're caught in a vicious cycle here in which we don't see anything other than escalation in sight for the time being.

ABEL: I understand the Iran, you've been in contact with some people in Iran. Can you share what those conversations have been like, what Iranians are thinking and feeling at this moment about both Israel, but also their own leadership?

KAMRAVA: You know yesterday people woke up and there was tremendous shock and disbelief at the extent of the damage and the scope of the attack by Israel. And then there was this sense that the IRGC, the revolutionary guards were incompetent. They couldn't even defend their own leadership.

But I think in some ways what we are seeing is that at least for many average Iranians, Israel appears to have overplayed its hand by attacking civilian targets, by attacking Tehran's airport Mehrabad Airport. The assumption now people just want revenge. They -- it's kind of this gut reaction. And -- and social media cyberspace in Iran is now full of nationalist symbols.

And so, I think Netanyahu's calculation that there might be a mass uprising against the Iranian state appears to so far at least have backfired.

ABEL: What does Iran's response tell you about its strategy and capability here? Are -- are they holding back at all that could maybe hint that they still want to leave some room for possible deal making?

KAMRAVA: That's a really good question. And I don't know -- I don't think we really know the answer to that. So far, they haven't officially said that the negotiations with the U.S. are over, although I sincerely doubt if they -- they would continue to negotiate, but they haven't officially declared them dead yet.

So, the door is slightly ajar in that respect. And I -- I don't know if the Iranians really have a coordinated a coherent strategy at this point. They're simply reacting to developments as dictated to them by Israel.

So, I think it would be really interesting to see what happens over the next couple of days. And incidentally at this point at least we don't see a credible negotiating partner or party that would come and tell the two sides to calm down and to kind of draw down and to put their weapons aside.

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ABEL: Mehran, if Israel's end game here is for an Iranian regime, change or collapse, what would it take for that to happen?

KAMRAVA: Well, it would take sustained and -- and very damaging attack on Iran. I'm not sure if that's indeed Israel's goal. So far for example, although they have tried to decapitate the revolutionary guards. They haven't gone for the for killing Khomeini, the supreme leader, or the president, for example, for that matter.

So the civilian leadership in many ways has been left untouched. So, the assumption is that Israel might prefer a much weakened Iran rather than an Iran, which is in utter chaos and could fall prey, for example, to another iteration of some sort of an Islamic state.

So, I'm not sure if Israel really wants regime change per se, but it might want a seriously weakened Iran in the region Iran.

ABEL: Mehran Kamrava, appreciate your expertise. Thank you for joining us.

KAMRAVA: Thank you for having me.

ABEL: Still to come for us, crews are scouring the wreckage of the Boeing Dreamliner that crashed in India. How one man became the only person on the flight to survive.

That's next.

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ABEL: Israel and Iran continue to launch attacks against each other after the unprecedented missile attack targeting Iran's nuclear facilities on Friday. Officials say at least three people have been killed in Israel so far in the conflict.

Meanwhile, Iran's envoy to the United Nations says the Israeli strikes have killed at least 78 people, including several top Iranian officials. More than 320 people were reported injured in Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel's operation will continue, quote, for as many days as it takes to eliminate Iran's nuclear threats.

And the price of oils surge Friday following the escalating tensions between Iran and Israe. West Texas Intermediate rose more than 7 percent, ending at nearly $73 a barrel. Brent Crude also gained 7 percent settling at $74.23 a barrel. This is the largest single day increase since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Meanwhile, U.S. stocks fell, sending investors into a scramble. The Dow fell 770 points, that's nearly 2 percent. The NASDAQ dropped 1.3 percent. And the S&P 500 falling more than 1 percent.

I'm turning now to the Air India disaster. Grief stricken families being asked for DNA samples to help identify loved ones. And investigators scouring the wreckage have recovered both the voice and data recorders from the flight. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner went down just minutes after taking off from the airport in Ahmedabad, India on Thursday.

Officials say at least 290 people were killed. Incredibly, there is one sole survivor from this devastating crash.

CNN's Tom Foreman has new details on how that one man was able to survive the crash.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Everything happened in front of my eyes. I don't believe how I survived.

In his first televised interview since the catastrophic crash, the sole survivor Viswash Kumar Ramesh told his harrowing tale of walking away from the wreckage to Indian public broadcaster Doordarshan, describing the first signs of trouble on a packed plane beginning its long trip to London.

After the takeoff within a minute, it felt like the plane came to a standstill for five, 10 seconds, he says. The green and white lights turned on in the flight. I could feel the engine thrust increasing to go up. But it crashed.

Ramesh is a British national who is returning home from India, traveling with his brother, who some reports have seated on the opposite side of the plane. A cousin thinks otherwise.

AJAY VAIGI, COUSIN OF SURVIVOR: Yes, they were sitting next to each other, but we don't know what happened to his brother.

FOREMAN (voice-over): He is now being counted among the at least 290 people lost on the plane and ground.

So how was Ramesh alone spared? Evidence points to his window seat in the first row of the economy, section 11A. there, he had a clear view of the flight attendant service area where he says he saw crew members and others trapped in dying on the right side of the plane, which he believes was crushed up against a building. But his seat critically was at an exit door on the left.

When my door broke, he told Indian TV, I tried to escape through a little space and I did. I don't know how.

And the fireball that followed impact, Ramesh notes he burned his hand. Otherwise, doctors say this man who miraculously emerged from an inferno is doing remarkably well. [01:50:11]

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is very comfortable and under -- under a strict observation, no issues.

FOREMAN: This man will undoubtedly be a huge help to investigators too, who often have no eyewitnesses to such events, let alone one who literally fell from the sky.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

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ABEL: Just incredible.

Palestinian activist, Mahmoud Khalil will stay behind bars in the U.S. A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration can keep him in detention as he fights possible deportation. His lawyers asked the judge to release him on bond. A judge finding the government was wrong to detain Khalil because they claimed his presence is against the national interest, but he ruled they could hold him for allegedly failing to meet application requirements for permanent residency in the U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents clashing with protestors near Newark, New Jersey Friday. It happened outside of a federal detention center that has been the focus of protest since it opened last month. In March, the city filed a complaint against ICE for use of the privately owned 1,000 bed facility, accusing the agency of failing to follow proper building safety protocols.

Newark's Mayor and a sitting congresswoman have been arrested at protests outside that facility since the U.S. Immigration crackdown began.

In the coming hours, Washington D.C. will see the largest display of military might since the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. Officially, the parade celebrates the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary, but it does coincide with President Donald Trump's 79th birthday.

CNN's Brian Todd has more.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Trump's vision for a grand military parade in the making for nearly a decade is finally coming to fruition.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES: It's going to be an amazing day. We have tanks, we have planes, we have all sorts of things.

TODD (voice-over): Dozens of Abrams tanks, Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, and Howitzers will be rolling down Constitution Avenue in Washington. About 7 million pounds of hardware.

Nearly 7,000 soldiers will march. There will be flyovers, horses, and the army's Golden Knights parachute team will descend and hand the President an American flag, the largest display of military firepower in the nation's capital, at least since 1991 when a parade of troops and weaponry marked the American victory in the first Gulf War.

TIM NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: A generation later, we are going to see a parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Army. But it comes at a time when the President has shown a deep desire to have a military parade.

TODD (voice-over): CNN reports, the President's team asked the Pentagon in late 2016 about using military vehicles for his first inaugural parade, but the idea never took hold.

Then a visit to Paris for Bastille Day in 2017. Trump was enthralled when French President Emmanuel Macron treated him to the traditional display of firepower to celebrate French independence. Trump's been pushing for similar pageantry in Washington ever since. Trump's critics say it's anti-democratic to politicize the military.

GAVIN NEWSOM, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR: He's ordering our American heroes, the United States military and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past.

TODD (voice-over): The White House pushing back one official telling CNN quote, no one ever calls Macron a dictator for celebrating Bastille Day.

But there's another layer of tension surrounding this event, the recent anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles and other cities raising concerns about potential unrest in Washington.

TODD: How specifically did L.A. play into your planning for this? Do you have it on the mind?

MATT MCCOOL, SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, U.S. SECRET SERVICE: We -- we're monitoring what's happening there. But to say that because of L.A. we had to change something that that's not -- that's not the case because we planned for that anyway.

TODD (voice-over): The Coast Guard and Secret Service showed us the massive security footprint for the parade.

MCCOOL: There'll be double bike rack here.

TODD: Yes.

MCCOOL: And they'll be on the other side. So about eight feet of double bike rack.

TODD (voice-over): Eighteen miles of fencing, concrete barricades, hundreds of law enforcement officers, drones and counter sniper teams will be deployed. On the Potomac River, the commander of a Coast Guard response boat team told us they'll have eyes on threats from the water.

TODD: What are the biggest vulnerabilities on the water and along the shore?

RYAN GOMEZ, COMMANDER, U.S. COAST GUARD: Sometimes the -- the -- the biggest vulnerabilities are just the -- the edges of those perimeters. So, I think we've planned for this event, we've looked at what we need to cover.

TODD: Security officials tell us there are no credible threats to this parade, but Secret Service special agent Matt McCool, says, the lone wolf attacker is always the wild card. They'll be extra vigilant looking for threats like that, and he points out this city with its multiple law enforcement agencies, all in close coordination is uniquely capable of handling an event this size.

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Brian Todd, CNN Washington.

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ABEL: Kanye West, showed up Friday at the trial of Music Mogul Sean Diddy Combs. A source close to Combs, says West wants to show his support. That source also says West is working on music with Diddy's Sung Christian. West has been widely condemned for anti-Semitic hate speech and other controversial behavior.

Combs is charged with federal crimes including sex trafficking and racketeering. Prosecutors say they could wrap up their case next week. Combs' defense then would begin theirs soon after.

Thank you for joining us. I'm Brian Abel in Atlanta.

CNN's Becky Anderson picks up our breaking news coverage live in Abu Dhabi, next.

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