There, going back to i think its called celtx secular normalization im all for a secular gang. Thank you all for being here and thank you for spending part of your day with us. Lets see it right back here next week hello everyone and welcome to the amanpour, hour. Heres where were headed this week the clandestine conflict between iran and israel erupts into the open could it get any worse my intel briefing from britains former spy chief said john sores, we need to recognize that this shadow war between israel, iran has going on for a good number of years now. Also this out, this looks like something youd see out of hitlers germany why are maga Republicans Parroting plutons propaganda . Its so outlandish. Its so wrong. And in many ways, then check president petra pawel wounds the United States that are lost for ukraine means a loss for the whole of europe and us assistance who has helped to Ukraine Cannot be replaced. Also this hour, the ukrainian maestro at the met on unity through mus
be the iranian response. those are two mistakes, no doubt about it with israel and he runs decades as long shadow war now playing out in the open. the rules of the game in the middle east are being rewritten. i spoke with britain s former top spy about the situation just before friday s strike. so john suarez, welcome back to our program. thank you very much, chris, here what do you think at the end of this very, very tense week, josep borrell, as all the leaders are meeting to try to figure out in europe and what s happening has said that we are on the edge of a cliff. do you agree? i think i d maybe slightly overstating it is a very tense time at the moment after the israeli strike in damascus and the very heavy iranian response, we need to bear in mind that iranian response was a failure there ll be disappointed in tehran that a tiny fraction only of their a barrage of missiles and drones
break. but what direct answer to your question on last weekend the head of the iranian revolutionary guard corps said that their action woods completely changed the equation of what s been going on between the two of them. that in the future anymore israeli attacks will be met by direct iranian attack. so this is not a confidence-building thought, and it will take very serious interventions to get both sides to declare that they have now re-established deterrence. they told each other what they can do and that they don t want to have a full scale war. i think it s important to note, i was speaking to the former uk intelligence chief and my six. so john suarez, who pointed out that and others have that. of course israel was helped hugely by many allies in the skies last saturday night to