Wow…

English journalist and @Channel4News correspondent Secunder Kermani to an Israeli spokesman at scene of a deadly Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv:

“Your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don’t have the moral high ground here, at all” pic.twitter.com/rMu6QxYJ8l

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Reporter Secunder Kermani with the UK’s Channel 4 News confronted Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Oren Marmorstein Sunday, following a deadly Iranian missile strike on a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv.

Marmorstein addressed the press from the rubble where a 40-year-old caregiver was killed and dozens more injured, according to The Times of Israel.

“We are aiming at military targets, but the Iranian regime is targeting our civilians, our children, our women, our elderly,” Marmorstein said. “But this is not only happening here in Israel. The Iranian regime is attacking the entire region. Eight countries — I repeat — eight countries in the region were attacked by ballistic missiles of Iran.”

Marmorstein continued, “And we say it very clear: we don’t have any fight, any quarrel with the Iranian people. The only objective, the only quarrel, is the Iranian regime’s murderous attacks. This is what it’s all about.”

Kermani asked the first question when Marmorstein was finished.

“[Ayatollah Ali] Khameini, the Iranian regime have clearly done terrible things, particularly to their own people. But, your prime minister is a wanted war criminal. You don’t have the moral high ground here at all,” Kermani said.

“This is a war crime!” Marmorstein said, pointing at the destroyed building behind him. “This is a war crime. Targeting civilians, targeting elderly women. Killing, murdering her caregiver from the Philippines. And the Iranian regime is targeting not only us in Israel, they are targeting the entire region.”

“What about the hundred or so school girls in Iran that were killed in a strike there?” Kermani asked.

“And this must stop! This must be stopped, and this is what we’re trying to do,” Marmorstein said.

As Kermani attempted to ask another question, Marmorstein turned his attention to other reporters.

Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported Saturday that more than 150 people were killed in joint U.S.-Israeli missile strike that hit a girls’ elementary school.

Watch the clip above via Sky News.

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Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) told CBS News host Margaret Brennan Sunday that he did not believe Iran was “anywhere close” to having a nuclear weapon ever since Operation Midnight Hammer targeted the country’s key nuclear facilities last June.

“So, there is no doubt that a year ago, Iran had an active an ongoing nuclear program,” Cruz told Brennan on Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation. “We took out the vast majority of that at the end of the 12-Day War.”

Brennan interjected, “That intelligence assessment was not made public if that it what was briefed to you.”

Cruz continued, “We took out — We launched targeted bombs at the end of the 12-Day War where we dropped the equivalent of about a third of a nuclear weapon on those underground facilities. Facilities like Fordow, built into the base of a mountain. The bunker buster bombs we used, Israel doesn’t have those bombs, no other country has those bombs. We took them out last year.”

Even so, Cruz added, “The Iranians were still hellbent on rebuilding” their nuclear capabilities.

Brennan asked Cruz exactly who was monitoring Iran’s nuclear materials in the absence of Israeli or U.S. boots on the ground.

“Look, the quantity of nuclear material, I didn’t say anything one way or another on that,” Cruz said. “What I said is, they were building nuclear weapons a year ago and our bombing took that out. They also had an ongoing desire to rebuild them.

“I don’t have present-day intelligence on what progress they had made toward rebuilding nuclear weapons since we bombed their facilites,” Cruz continued. ” I have no indication that that they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons, because our bombing was devastating…That’s one of the reasons I urged President Trump, ‘Now is the time'” to strike.

President Donald Trump justified the strikes in an eight-minute video posted online early Saturday morning, saying Tehran “can never have a nuclear weapon.”

“We are going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated,” Trump said.

Fox News’s Jacqui Heinrich interviewed Trump Sunday morning, when the president claimed that if the U.S. and Israel hadn’t initiated the missile strikes, Iran “would have had a nuclear weapon within two weeks.”

Watch the clip above via CBS News’s Face The Nation.

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