tehran as israel trying to save face. but not to engage in an insignificant direct conflict with iran. >> yeah, that's the point because us intelligence and others have been warning while now, anybody indicating that a random not want a war with israel, although it was okay with escalating and just wanted to stay away from a direct confrontation. so in many ways, is a sense of relief in tehran that they'll give them this off-ramp by the israelis while in the past days, we have been seeing that the ron trying to have a turning point in its engagement with israel for the first time, it tried to directly act against israeli targets. >> but there was a chance that this might provoke a response from israeli sayyed. but i think if there is no clear and visible or significant if this strike was not on the israeli sayyed, this cannot change that equation for me, renin perspective so that's important