Anywhere because i want to bring in christiane amanpour, who joins us now and christiane, you know, full well that the biggest one of the biggest concerns aside from hamas and hezbollah inside israel, maybe a bigger concern has been the kind of thing were seeing right now, which is iran, which has a very, very, very deep bench of very strong artillery and missiles. And it appears that they are using them right now indeed. And its incredibly important to be absolutely precise about whats going on so far, there is no evidence that anything has landed that it is being intercepted according to our correspondents, on the ground. And also the united states and israel said that the they assessed that the targets would the three israeli Air Bases and intelligence and an intelligence base, again, as our correspondents have said, thats very important to keep in mind. The second thing is that ive been speaking to Foreign Ministers from the region just today, the lebanese Foreign Minister, current
Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to