I GOT INSIGHT INTO HOW IRAN MIGHT APPROACH CONFLICT WITH THE U.S.
IN TEHRAN TODAY, THE
AMERICAN FLAG BURNED
IN THE STREETS.
ANGRY REACTION TO THE
AMERICAN ASSASSINATION
OF IRAN’S TOP MILITARY
COMMANDER.
IRAN’S NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNSEL
TONIGHT ISSUING NEW
THREATS SAYING A VERY
GRAVE REVENGE IS
AWAITING THE CRIMINALS
WHO BLOODIED THEIR
HANDS WITH THE BLOOD
OF SOLEIMANI.
MONTHS AGO, WE
TRAVELED INSIDE IRAN
SPEAKING TO PEOPLE ON
THE STREET AND IN
THEIR HOMES AND TO
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
INCLUDING THE HEAD OF
IRAN’S NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNSEL, A
VISIT DURING ANOTHER
MOMENT OF INFLAMED
TENSIONS FOLLOWING
SUSPECTED IRANIAN
ATTACKS ON OIL
TANKERS.
AND IRAN SHOOTDOWN OF
AN AMERICAN MILITARY
DRONE.
BACK THEN, HE SHARED
WITH ME THIS WARNING.
>> Translator: IN THE
CASE OF WAR, THE U.S.
WILL BE IN A VERY
TERRIBLE SITUATION.
>> Reporter: WILL IRAN
USE ASYMMETRIC WARFARE
WARFARE?
>> IRAN HAS MULTIPLE
INSTRUMENTS AT HAND
INCLUDING THE PROXY
WAR.
>> Reporter: A
REFERENCE TO MILITIAS
ACROSS THE REGION TO
TERROR ORGANIZATIONS
LIKE HAMAS AND
HASBALLAH RAISING THE
STAKES FOR AMERICAN
MILITARY PLANNERS.
>> MILITARY TO
MILITARY, HOW WOULD
YOU EXPECT THE
IRANIANS WOULD FAIR
AGAINST THE U.S.?
>> THEY WOULD FAIR
BADLY.
THEY CANNOT MATCH US
IN CONVENTIONAL
FORCES, BUT THEY ARE
MASTERS OF ASYMMETRIC
WARFARE.
THE IRANIANS MAY TURN
AROUND AND ATTEMPT THE
SAME KIND OF ACTIVITY
AGAINST THE U.S. AM
BASKETBALL TORE
-- AMBASSADOR AND SAY
THIS WAS A
PROPORTIONAL
RETALIATION.
PROPORTIONAL RETALIATION. >> Reporter: NO
INDICATION WHAT THEY
WILL DO NEXT.
ALI IS THERE.
>> SOLEIMANI WAS A
COLT FIGURE.
THERE IS A REAL SENSE
OF SHOCK HERE.
STATE TV IS
COMMEMORATEING HIM ON A
LOOP AND ONE GENERAL
EVEN WEPT AFTER THE
NEWS OF HIS DEATH.
>> Reporter: IN THE
MEANTIME, LAST NIGHT’S
BRAZEN U.S. AIR STRIKE
MAY REPRESENT A
MISCALCULATIONS OF
IRAN’S PART.
IN A SERIES OF
INTERVIEWS DURING OUR
TIME ON THE GROUND
THIS SUMMER, TOP
OFFICIALS QUESTIONED
THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION’S
STOMACH FOR CONFLICT.
>> Translator: I THINK
A BRIEF GLIMPSE INTO
THE HISTORY OF
AMERICA’S PAST
BEHAVIOR SHOWS THEY
CANNOT SIMPLY MAKE
SUCH MISTAKES.
>> Reporter: A COUNTRY
WEEKS AGO WAS IN
BLOODY UNREST, A
GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN
TO END PROTESTS OVER
SOARING GAS PRICES
TONIGHT IS REFOCUSSING
ITS RAGE ON AMERICA.