but what we re also seeing from state media, from semi official state media in iran is that they re almost downplaying what has happened. they are saying there has been no grand explosion. they re saying that the nuclear facilities are completely secure. the very no impact on the ground so potentially laying the groundwork for this to be something acceptable for tehran. so that s really the question when you ask what s coming next from tehran, it s we have to try and figure out what tehran is able to live with. now they say that what they did, that unprecedented into the attack last weekend, saturday into sunday morning. that was in response to an attack on its diplomatic compound in damascus. and they said fairly quickly afterwards, in fact, as the attack was still on i m going, the matter is concluded. they wanted to respond. and as far as they were concerned, and that was it. now, of course, that wasn t the case for israel. they didn t feel that they
tehran as israel trying to save face. but not to engage in an insignificant direct conflict with iran. yeah, that s the point because us intelligence and others have been warning while now, anybody indicating that a random not want a war with israel, although it was okay with escalating and just wanted to stay away from a direct confrontation. so in many ways, is a sense of relief in tehran that they ll give them this off-ramp by the israelis while in the past days, we have been seeing that the ron trying to have a turning point in its engagement with israel for the first time, it tried to directly act against israeli targets. but there was a chance that this might provoke a response from israeli sayyed. but i think if there is no clear and visible or significant if this strike was not on the israeli sayyed, this cannot change that equation for me, renin perspective so that s important
understand situation that at the moment caveats, of course things may change israel made decided it s got another volley to go, though that seems unlikely. it does seem that that this current escalation between israel and iran may be this bit of it. on a pause that said let s not forget that iran s proxy hezbollah is just to the north in lebanon. and that has been recently for many months, but recently has been the real uptake across that border in terms of fire and many israeli soldiers injured just this week, that border, i think we ll perhaps come ten you to be as active, maybe not quite as active as the past couple of days so the difference between israel and iran, and not gone away. but this escalation that may be on hold reprieved on a resolution, i guess so, but nick, is there any indication why israeli
much wider sense for now it is a reprieve, but i think everybody now understands that we re in a different you know, we re in a different space at this point what was difficult to imagine prior to the israeli strike against the consulate in damascus i, iran and israel targeting each other directly now is very much part of the new scene and the region so i think there is a reprieve for now especially since it seems that iran is downplaying the incident. there are reports that the drones came out of iran itself and not from our inside of iran but i think there needs to be and everybody understands this, there needs to be a much broader de-escalation in the region, which begins with gaza, but also ends with the relationship between iran and israel.
what the iranians are likely to do the takeaway of the moment is that this is below the threshold around requirement to respond despite what we ve heard them say publicly. and this would seem to indicate that the pressure should it has been put on prime minister benjamin netanyahu by president biden and others. we heard from the british foreign secretary, the german foreign secretary here this week that they didn t want israel to escalate the situation, although the british foreign secretary saying he did understand that israel would respond and prime minister here it said, clearly that israel would do what it sees fit i think the situation we re in at the moment and the best read we have reading between the lines of how iran has played this through the whole night and what i m hearing from, from a well-placed source who would