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Action last weekend. and see it was very carefully calibrated to make sure they wouldn t have a reason to i won t say go ballistic because that wabbits lest, but overreact. what we are seeing here is geo politics. something we sometimes forget is there s domestic politics. in israel, it has been talked about. mr. netanyahu is doing what he is doing because of the weakness of his political weakness. it is also worth saying that iran, it is an authoritarian regime. but it is an authoritarian regime with a very young population which increasingly is restless. restless about the overwhelming ....
Significance of the rule. restless about its isolation from the world. restless about the constant danger of conscription if you are a young iranian man. so the iranian regime has to deal not just with its strategy of creating chaos in the region, but keeping its own people . and of course for us, we have ukraine already. we have our own domestic problems as do the americans and everybody wants this to wind down. undeed. trevor, the israeli hard right minister said what we are seeing was feeble so it gives you a sense of how split and divided israel is on the reaction and what to do. but in the last few minutes in fact, we heard from the ....
Impressed upon israel. israel had planned with the u.k., israel, and france how it responded to the attack. the british forward positions, more fighter jets. the head of the u.s. was here. there was support from the arab countries like jordan. support for the gulf states, saudi arabia, too. the message from israel s western allies is there is something here you can build upon. don t take any action against iran that is going to jeopardize, you know, this new fledgling relationship. this new military relationship. we are not talking about something like a middle ian version of nato. but israel does want to try and create a missile defense system ....
Weekend that hay had no choice but to launch some kind of attack and retaliate in some way. we saw international leaders, the u.s. president rishi sunak, david cameron, all urge restraint. and they spoke to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they told him to deescalate the situation. to see last weekend, as a win for israel. we have seen israel respond. we heard from iranian officials who told reuters news agency they have no plans to respond. let s bring in our security and defense editor. a lot of developments the last few hours. we are looking at live pictures of lord cameron and the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken at that g7 foreign minister s meeting. there is an attempt to deescalate the situation. they are saying iran attacked ....
Support for israel not urging them one way or another too stridently. david cameron, foreign secretary, he is at the g7. also secretary of state antony blinken. we are expecting to hear from shortly. the prime minister is giving a speech at 9:30 in the morning. that will be on welfare. we had an announcement from the government about a set of welfare reforms they are planning but he might be asked on this issue of wheys going on in iran and israel. so we can expect to hear more from him. but the language is all about deescalation. israel has come under pressure from the u.k. and the u.s. and other european countries to show restraint. but david cameron was in israel speaking to netanyahu on ....