How have Israel's allies reacted to Iran strikes?

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00:00Joining us here on set, our international affairs editor for more, Angela Diffley.

00:04Angela, tell us more about the reaction around the world to these events.

00:09What is behind their words?

00:12Yeah, I just want to pick up on something there that Richard Dalton said,

00:16particularly at the end there, you know, the Israelis would cite the IAEA report yesterday,

00:24which said that Iran was not cooperating.

00:28It is a fact, apparently, that they have gone well beyond what would be needed for a civilian nuclear programme,

00:37and that is something that is worrying the Israelis.

00:40And that, if you like, came at a timely moment because the Israelis have long, it seems, had the intention to do something about it.

00:47The fact that that report came out yesterday certainly gave them useful, I would say, something like evidence.

00:54So, Richard Dalton takes a very different stand on that.

00:58In terms of reaction, if you look at Europe, because he talked about that, it is interesting.

01:06Back in October, when there was this exchange between Iran and Israel,

01:13the Europeans, Israel's allies, came firmly to Israel's aid, helped with their air defence,

01:19and that was under Joe Biden, it is noticeable that they are not informed at this time,

01:28and that they are very unsure about the whole operation.

01:33Both Germany, particularly France, and Britain have all called for a de-escalation.

01:39It is a very different situation now.

01:42Now, that said, you know, Netanyahu will not care greatly what either Macron or David Lammy in Britain say.

01:52To move on to the US, Donald Trump's just been on True Social saying,

01:56I told them to make a deal, now some of them are dead, and more along the same lines.

02:03You know, Donald Trump did make clear he wanted to give diplomacy another chance.

02:08We know he had that phone call with Netanyahu. Netanyahu more or less told him,

02:12you know, we're planning to go ahead with this, and then it appears informed him just before they did go ahead.

02:17You know, Trump wanted diplomacy, he says, to be given another chance.

02:22He is not, by instinct, someone who is particularly war-hungry.

02:27He is much more of a deal's guy, as he says himself.

02:32Rubio came out immediately and said the United States was not involved in this,

02:35do not even think about retaliating against US interests.

02:39It's obvious that if Iran did, they would probably come off worse.

02:43So the United States distanced themselves from this actual act.

02:47But very clearly, Donald Trump said beforehand,

02:50we cannot allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.

02:54And he made that absolutely clear.

02:56In terms of Saudi Arabia, Oman, Turkey, they've come out, condemned this,

03:00said it's in violation of international law, as we were just hearing there.

03:03But it shouldn't be ignored, the fact that some countries in the region

03:08will be quietly pleased to see Iran's nuclear capacity severely diminished.

03:15You know, there is what people are saying and what they think behind the scenes.

03:19That said, Saudi Arabia, oil markets in turbulence now,

03:23this whole region looking so dangerous, nobody can be very pleased by this.

03:27Here we go.

03:38That's the question.

03:38This is not how over there.

03:40You've got to take it as iraness.

03:42You know, that was.

03:44So, you know, there are a lot of different reasons.

03:46You know,

03:48this is not the issue.

03:49You know,

03:52They're the ones.

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