MIDDLE EAST ESCALATION: Regional powers AWAIT US response after Iranian attack

HANDLED IN THE WEEKS AHEAD. BRET? >> Bret: CLAUDIA, THANK YOU. ♪♪. >> Bret: SAUDI ARABIA IS. FIGHTING OFF ATTACKS BY IRAN. BACKED HOUTHI REBELS, MUSLIM. NATIONS ARE CONDEMNING AND. ATTEMPTED DRONE ATTACK ON MECCA, AN ASSAULT THE SAUDIS CALL A RED. LINE FOR THE KINGDOM. THIS COMES AS ATTACKS CONTINUE. TO THREATEN ENERGY PRODUCTION. AND DISTRIBUTION. CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT TREY. YINGST REPORTS TONIGHT FROM TEL.

AVIV. >> TONIGHT THE MIDDLE EAST WAITS. TO SEE HOW THE UNITED STATES. WILL RESPOND TO FRESH IRANIAN. ESCALATION THIS WEEK. DAYS AGO A U.S. CONTRACTED. VESSEL WAS HIT DURING AN IRANIAN. MISSILE AND DRONE ATTACK. TWO SOURCES TOLD FOX NEWS. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AROUND THE. STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND CAUSED. MINOR INJURIES INCLUDING SMOKE. INHALATION. SOME U.S. PERSONNEL WERE. ON-BOARD, THOUGH THE IDENTITIES. OF THE INJURED ARE UNCLEAR. IT'S THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF. EXCHANGES OF FIRE BRINGING INTO. QUESTION WHAT COMES NEXT IN THE. IRAN CONFLICT. >> DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE DID.

ACCOMPLISH SUBSTANTIAL. DESTRUCTION NOT JUST OF THEIR. NUCLEAR PROGRAM BUT THEIR. CONVENTIONAL MILITARY WE SEE THE. IRANIANS SHOOTINGAL COMMERCIAL. SHIPPING EVENING IN THE MIDST OF. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. >> THE IRANIAN COUNCIL SAYING. THE STAKES SCLANGD. DAMAGE CONTROL WON'T STOP WHAT'S. COMING. NO TALKS UNTIL IRAN'S CONDITIONS. ARE MET. WITH THE FOCUS ON IRAN, ONE OF. THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST PROXY. FORCES THE HOUTHIS IN YEMEN ARE. RAMPING UP THEIR ATTACKS ON.

YEMENI GOVERNMENT FORCES. THE SAUDIS INTERCEPTED A HOUTHI. DRONE OVERNIGHT NEAR THE HOLY. CITY OF MECCA. COUNTRIES CONDEMN IT WITH QATAR. CALLING IT A GRAVE ESCALATION. THEY HAVE THREATENED TO CLOSE. THE STRAIT, ENTRANCE TO THE RED. SEA. >> YEMENI FORCES WILL CONTINUE. TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY AGAINST. ANY AGGRESSION OR VIOLATION BY. ALL AVAILABLE MEANS.

>> OVER THE WEEKEND, U.S. OFFICIALS REPORTEDLY MET WITH. HOUTHI REPRESENTATIVES IN OMAN. THE HOUTHIS CLAIM THEY WOULD NOT. TARGET AMERICAN VESSELS. HOPING TO WARD OFF POSSIBLE U.