from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu over the course of the day. we're not expecting to at this point, and that appears to be a calculation on the israeli side to give the iranians an off-ramp here. the israelis appear to be saying or indicating that if they don't gloat, if they don't crow, if they don't rub iran's face in this strike, that the iranians may have enough space to choose not to retaliate without losing face. as you said, this strike did not happen in a vacuum. april 1st israel allegedly attacking the iranian embassy compounds in damascus killing seven senior members of iran's revolutionary guard corps, and then on saturday, iran retaliating, that unprecedented barrage of 350 cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, drones, almost all of them shot down, not just by israel but also by the united states and allied

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