‘Uncharted Territory’: Fox’s Trey Yingst Says Scope of Iranian Attack On Israel Is ‘Something That I’ve Never Seen Before’

Fox News’s chief foreign correspondent, Trey Yingst, spoke to host Will Cain on Friday and broke down the state of play between Israel and Iran following the Iranian retaliation on Friday, which saw multiple ballistic missiles hit Tel Aviv. Yingst called the situation “uncharted territory” and warned of an ongoing regional conflict.

“It’s a bit hard to hear you as we’re moving here, but I’ll talk a little bit about Iran’s capabilities because I could pick that out of what you were saying,” Yingst began as he spoke to Cain from a moving car in Israel.

“As we’re headed to this missile site, it’s certainly something to think about because the images that we’ve seen already from the place that we are headed are devastating. It shows the impact of a ballistic missile and the damage that it can do. But it raises an important question about Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities. We know that they have thousands of missiles. They have the capability to resupply launchers. And many of their missiles are stored in underground facilities. And so the question is actually, how many can they launch at one time?” Yingst continued, adding:

And this is an indication that they have limited launching capabilities because they’re not launching all of these missiles from permanent positions. Many of them are mobile launchers. And while it’s difficult for Israel to hit those mobile launchers because they can move quickly after firing, what they can’t do is resupply quickly.

And so this is likely what we’re going to see in the days ahead. The Israelis striking Iranian targets, more of their nuclear facilities, likely taking out more top Iranian officials, and then Iranian responses that will come in different barrages. The real X factor here, Will, is how the Iranians are going to respond to American interests in the region.

And it will be interesting to see how President Trump responds to the threats from Iran and also interesting to see how the Americans are preparing across the region. It’s part of the reason that earlier in the week you saw those orders to partially evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq over concerns that the Iranians would use not only their own military and the IRGC, whose top commander was killed in the Israeli strikes overnight, but used their militias in places like Iraq and Syria, these Iran-backed Iraqi and Syrian Shia militias that have missile and drone capabilities of their own.

And what they can do is target American bases or target American embassies in the region. And so certainly the Americans are going to be on high alert. Again, we can confirm at Fox that the Israelis have told us American forces are participating in helping to shoot down these incoming missiles that are targeting Israel.

And we are truly, Will, in uncharted territory. There’s really no other way to explain it. What we saw earlier live on Fox with these ballistic missiles slamming into Israel’s second largest city, it’s something that I’ve never seen before. And it’s an indication that Israel’s missile defense capability is not perfect, something that we knew. But there are real questions about how Israel is going to respond in the hours and days ahead.

Cain followed up, “One more question, Trey, and I appreciate it’s hard to hear while you’re in that vehicle moving through Tel Aviv. Well, you said Israel characterized Iran’s targeting of population centers as a red line. What is your understanding of what that means? What would an Israeli response be for someone crossing a red line?”

“It’s a great question, and we have to look at the targets that were hit last night in Iran in a wave of strikes. We had some reporting from an Israeli security source that said they used Mossad intelligence to basically track these top leaders from the IRGC, their Air Force unit, and get them to hold a meeting based on Israeli activity in the region,” Yingst replied, adding:

And then they were able to keep them at this location, and then they targeted these top Iranian commanders from the IRGC. These were military targets, though, not political targets. Remember, you have Iran’s supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, and then you have President Masoud Pezeshkian.

There are other leaders, including Iran’s foreign minister, political leaders, some of whom have been involved in the negotiations that were taking place between the Americans and the Iranians over the past two months. And so there are political targets they could consider, and they also could ramp up strikes on nuclear facilities. We know that two key nuclear facilities were hit, including the Natanz enrichment center.

This is one of the largest enrichment facilities in Iran, but the Fordow nuclear facility that is said to be very deep underground, the critical components of it, was not targeted, according to the sources that we talk to and from what we can gather by open source intelligence. And so there are certainly more targets that can be hit. And I think we also have to look at what President Trump said today. President Trump has made very clear he wanted to give the Iranian regime an opportunity to come to the negotiating table.

There was supposed to be a sixth round of talks on Sunday between US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Iranian counterparts in Oman. It doesn’t appear at this point that is going to take place, but of course, the Americans will continue to push for negotiations because President Trump has made clear he wants a deal here. But of course, given the fact that the Israelis conducted these strikes overnight and now the Iranians are firing ballistic missiles into Israel, the idea of diplomacy, Will, at this moment seems quite far-fetched.

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