same gym i wonder in previous instances, there was some reporting that iran communicated through turkey in effect, israel and the west, its intentions prior to that weekend, drone and missile strike, was there any communication in the other direction via turkey yeah. we don t have any confirmation of that, but that is the natural question that we re going to be asking. in the wake of the iranian missile barrage on the israelis, the turks took a very long time to say anything at all and they haven t said anything thus far either. and so it s been really interesting to see how turkey has been utilizing its position as sort of a go-between, between the west and the middle east to be effective. and obviously the americans recognize that unique role that turkey has. and now we re also seeing the turks trying to be more useful when it comes to making peace between the
of the iranian foreign minister, he just threatened israel. did i just hear him say live on cnn that they would do a decisive so strike. what does that mean? what iran says a decisive strike against israel in this case, what they re talking about is a kind of strike against an air force space. what iran did openly was attacked and israeli air force base so in that case, i could say if it is us, it is measured. there s very great importance here to the additional information warfare that s going on to me. that s the main arena if, as it does appear, israel has struck targets within iran that clearly shows a problem with iran s air defenses a vulnerability, if you like is that you re raid does israel militarily learned something from this michael, i m all about words and i m going to say iran vulnerable. iran is
many france be spread out like that militarily i m sitting right now my house and tel aviv, it s a friday, which is the early de in israel. and most people around the world don t understand that here in tel aviv, we re not a war zone, but we re all at war. we still have oh an immense amount of reserve troops that are called up on monday night. it s the passover seder that s a very big holiday, jewish holiday, family holiday. so what we re saying right now is something that impacts us both domestically and regionally. and what i want to call clearly is that this is not about israel against, it s a about the difference iranian lead in this case voices that call for our destruction, call for our annihilation, and don t believe me go into their websites, into their tweets, their telegram channels, and see what they have to say about israel right now, we are definitely in a multi-front war and we should not he s standing alone about this very eisen appreciate you
in order to signal its displeasure and obviously try and restore some of that the term equilibrium. so iran has several tools at its disposal and it s obviously very difficult to predict at this stage which ones it s going to use. one presumes that even if this round of for tat does stop with this, they actual conflict, this simmering conflict in the sense of israel and iranian proxies. that s not going to stop. would you agree with that? i agree because it s ultimately linked to the dynamics in gaza and as a matter of fact, if anything, we re poised to see an escalation and israeli activity there with what seems to be israeli preparation to launch a larger assault on rafah. and so i think that ultimately so long as we don t see a ceasefire in gaza, and so long as we don t see israel compliant with the un council resolution, then the
intended targets of israel s latest strikes on iran where are we don t know the scale of that attack or the nature of the military tools and instruments that were used to achieve it. but i think the tentative conclusions that we can draw from the limited reports coming out of iranian state media. and some of the footage circulating online that reportedly shows iranian air defenses intercepting some of these missiles perhaps, and others perhaps landing somewhat successfully. it seems as though israel has opted for a less than proportionate response to iran s attack last weekend, heeding the uss cole, not to further escalate the situation in a very significant way. yeah. i guess it remains though that it s retaliation and then to and now it s more retaliation how concerned is