temperature. the word as you have been saying is deescalation. but, we know that there is a conversation going on here. the iranians this morning are down playing the impact of the israeli strike saying yeah right. didn't really hit us at all. that is presumably the sound of a country trying not to retaliate. we know that the americans knew there was going to be a strike. we also know that they knew about the iranian retaliation. so, actually, what is going on here is a lot of noise publicly. but there are clearly a lot of back channels being used to make sure nobody overreacts. we can look back on the israeli