iranians an off ramp, if you will, to allow the iranian government to choose not to retaliate without losing face because you are not hearing israel crowing about this, gloating about this, rubbing the iranian face in it. from iran's perspective, they're downplaying this attack, we heard from the iranian president this morning, he said nothing about the strike, iranian state media is saying the situation is calm, civilian air traffic is flying as normal. and despite all the bluster we have heard from iran's revolutionary guard corps over the last week saying that any israeli attack of any size would be met with immediate retaliation, the iranian government at this point is not blaming iran and they're not promising to retaliate. now, it is worth saying this morning's strike did not happen in a vacuum. april 1st israel allegedly bombed near the iranian consulate in syria, killing seven senior members of the