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Welcome back to CBS News 247 Prime Time.
I'm Juliet Goodrich. Today, Iran launched a barrage of missiles at American forces in the Middle East.
This as the US and Saudis strike Thrronbacked militias in Iraq.
And then take a look at the aftermath of the air strikes.
Buildings and cars were left destroyed by the US and Saudi strike on Thrronbacked militias in Iraq.
At least 20 fighters were killed and 32 others wounded in these overnight strikes.
So, I want to bring in retired US Navy Vice Admiral Robert Merritt to talk more about this.
Robert, thanks for joining us.
Was it a risk for Saudi Arabia to join the war?
>> Yeah, Julia, I would say that it is.
They've been largely um kept out of things with the focus on the other Gulf States up until this point and been communicating very regularly with the Iranians between the Saudi Arabia and the Iranians to try to uh stay above the freight to some degree. that's kind of changed both in terms of the attacks on the uh Iranian surrogate forces inside Iraq but also with their attacks on the Houthies over the past weeks cons because of concerns that the Saudis have about all their facilities on the Red Sea.
>> Yeah. So at this point any signs of diplomacy soon?
>> Yeah, I think it's a question of degrees, Juliet.
There's always diplomacy taking place at some level. uh whether it's you know really serious diplomacy such as the ones we've had uh brokered by the uh government of Pakistan uh and and you know Vice President Dance for example participating or just kind of the day in day out lower level communications that exist all the time I would say diplomacy right now is at a fairly low EB and one other comment I would make as we've seen the president in the White House today kind of telegraph that there might be some more American attacks on Iran tonight which he does periodically in language is pretty strong along those lines just today.
>> You know, when we talk about diplomacy, is there is there a hard stop on it when things happen or does it take a long time?
>> I think uh in answer your question, Juliet, and it's a great point.
This one's going to take a long time.
I two two things I would mention. The first is there's going to have to be a diplomatic solution of some type.
I mean, um, the Straits of Hormuz, take that for example, there's really no military solution to securing the Strait of Hormuz and having ships move in and out at scale at the, you know, numbers like 130 or so a day that existed before the war started in February.
So, eventually there's going to have to be some kind of diplomatic solution.
My own sense is that's going to take quite a while because of the how hard-nosed the uh Iranian diplomatic negotiators are and also the fact that the hardliners in Tran, the RGC and others seem to be ruling the roots at this point.
So I think they're going to push pretty hard for some tough tough negotiations and I don't see those being completed anytime very soon.
>> Yeah, there's just not an onoff switch.
All right, Robert Morett. Robert, thank you so much. Go ahead.
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