Greg Myre

The foreign minister of Iran, Abbas Saraghi, was on most of the cable channels over the weekend talking about the war, and yet you didn't see Trump or other senior officials in his administration speaking about the war, what the aims were, how it was going.

Little bits and pieces were dribbling out from the military in brief statements.

But yeah, we were actually hearing more from Iran than we were hearing from the U.S.

government.

Yeah, very much so.

This is day three and it's already happened.

A lot of the Arab countries in the Gulf near Iran did not want to get involved.

They said they did not want the U.S.

using its airspace.

They were trying to signal that we're not involved here.

Well, Iran chose to hit, I believe it's up to seven countries in the region now.

So those countries have

had to get involved, if only to defend their own territory and shoot down incoming Iranian missiles and drones.

But this, of course, creates other dynamics.

For example, Kuwait, home to a significant U.S.

military presence, the Kuwaitis shot down three American F-15 fighter jets by mistake.

They presumably thought this was incoming Iranian fire.

They shot down these three very expensive planes.

The six U.S.

crew members all ejected and have survived.