between israel and iran, they understand these are two countries that operate with a strategic patience that the united states is not used to in war. and we re talking about the fact that the israelis have been going after iran s nuclear program for years. you might remember back in 2020 when with a machine gun that was remotely operated, the israelis took out mohsen fakhrizadeh, a iranian nuclear scientist. the iranians said they would respond and ultimately they didn t. well, the israelis understand that iran has proxies across the middle east, and they also have strategic patience and the ability to attack israel when the time is right for. and the largest iranian proxy is hezbollah, a group iran has been propping up for a very long. and they have been smuggling precision guided weapons components out into southern lebanon, through syria, in a way that creates a situation for israel that if indeed hezbollah is completely
israeli soldiers were injured along with four civilians along the border with lebanon this was a hezbollah drone attack that took place and it gives you just a small sense of the capabilities that this organization has. over the past several years iran has been smuggling precision guided missile components into southern lebanon through syria and it is part of the reason the israelis have struck inside syrian territory over the years to target some of these weapons shipments they want to ensure that they can limit the amount of weapons that hezbollah can stockpile that would ultimately threaten israel in a future conflict we are at that conflict today and the real concern is that iran in response to a threat in their territory an immediate reaction can use as blood to strike medium larger population centres like tel aviv is part of the reason that israeli officials over the past week in these briefings, again with top israeli air force and air defence officials, they have