Explosions heard near military base in Iran. CNN reporter breaks down what we know

Let’s bring in and CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nick Robertson. He’s in Jerusalem tonight. Nick, what do we know about this? Yeah, John, we’ve been tracking a number of reports that have been coming out of a number of locations in Iran over the past several hours. And this is the first time now that the Iranian news agency Fars is confirming that explosions have been heard around Isfahan, several 100 miles away from Tehran. But this city is a city that has multiple military bases around it and also has one of Iran’s principal nuclear. Search facilities. Now, we don’t know the details of precisely where these explosions are being reported, but we are seeing other details indicative tonight of what may be developing in the skies above Iran. We know that we’re looking at flight radar flight tracking, that a number of flights have diverted their flights over the skies and away from the skies over Iran this evening. We also understand that a no Tam and no fly zone has been declared. In the West of Iran as well. There are a number of other cities where we’ve heard from local sources on the ground locally reported, unconfirmed by us, that there have been other explosions. We can also say that earlier on this evening a number of small earthquakes were detected in Iran. All of these different developments John were trying to piece together to give a complete picture of what is happening. Of course, there has been huge expectation that Israel was going to strike back in a decisive way. At Iran. Indeed, Prime Minister Netanyahu said just a couple of days ago that that would be happening and the British Foreign Secretary indicated he understood there will be strikes in Iran. What we are trying to assess right now is. Who is behind these explosions reported in Isfahan? What the bigger picture is adding up to at the moment and and and and therefore the implications that this might lead to. I think we’re at the very leading edge here, John, of trying to get a solid picture of what is happening in Iran tonight. But airspace affected explosions reported around a significant city with significant bases and a major nuclear research facility in Iran tonight, John.