israel wants to do another adventurism and acts against the interests of iran and our next response will be immediate and will be at maximum level. >> reporter: a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news, israel told the u.s. ahead of time about the strike. israel attacked iran's embassy compound in syria earlier this month, and iran responded firing more than 300 drones and missiles, nearly all of them shot down by israel with considerable help from the united states and other allies. israel, it seems, doesn't want to escalate the shooting war with iran either making no public comments about it, no public reaction from president biden either, only this from secretary of state. >> i'm not going to speak to anything other than to say we were not involved in any offensive operations. >> so, tom, to be clear, the iranian foreign minister indicated iran will not strike israel again unless provoked. >> reporter: lester, the foreign minister made it very clear to me signaling that to iran this conflict