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Prompted what we are at today. what israel clearly wanted to do was to be able to respond to iran, send a signal that israel has the capability to get into the heartland of iran. but to target infrastructure facilities that were not going to lead iran to say they need to retaliate. this is an off ramp. hopefully they will take it. in terms of things the iranians said publically, they are seeking to downplay this and get into the normal course of working through proxies to try to put pressure on ...

In a nuclear research facility as well, if were pushed to do so. clearly theres messaging there as well. and its a warning. im sure that over the last five days there would have been a lot of debate about whether israel should go further, whether they should attack the nuclear facilities. it was quite interesting yesterday. iran have always said they want nuclear capability for civilian energy purposes, thats it. theyve always denied wanting a nuclear weapon. frankly, very few people believe the...

Aid john elliott, john, good morning to you. success could mean different things when it comes to something like this, but do you think the strike was the right thing for israel to do? would you characterize it as successful? >> absolutely, carley. good morning. it was absolutely successful from israel standpoint because number one, they had to respond. they did so because politically they just could not allow iran to have a direct threat on even though a direct success threat on their soil. the...

Which is about 120 kilometers, about 70 miles away from isfahan. and that is actually really the key enrichment when facility. so both of them are key to the iranian nuclear program. the fact that the israelis did not hit either one of them indicates that they had the distance and the capability of hitting them, but they chose not to and that is a message and of itself isnt it? it is absolutely. and that fact that they didnt hit them was a message to the uranium said, we can do this, but were no...

What they were saying is, "look, what we need you to know this is we have the billing capability to attack you at any time so dont cross any lines ever again in terms of striking us on their territory." >> todd: john, to your point, does this mean that this is the end that both israel and iran have gotten a off-ramp that they wanted? where is this just the beginning? >> no, todd, what i think is this is something where there is status quo on both sides that neither side wants to cross. iran demo...

Said, a spectacular failure. in many ways, israel didnt have to extend much further to show its military dominance, but what it did is, again, it just showed that it can strike into iran with relative ease. whereas, iran sends 300 missiles and virtually none of them get through. now, that doesnt mean israel should be complacent. it cant count on american and prettyish pilots and jordanian pilots every time to help defend it from iran. israel obviously wants this thing to cool down a bit, but it ...

Major attack from the north from the iranian proxy hezbollah. >> hezbollah does have great capability to do damage in the north of israel. i expect hezbollah to rain down rockets. i dont expect them to do anything that will trigger a bigger war. iran doesnt want a war. hezbollah doesnt want its capabilities and forces to be decimated by the israelis. i dont think israel wants to engage in a major conflict with hezbollah or iran. therefore, i think we are going to return to the status quo prior t...

Airspace and iranian media says all restrictions have been lifted. i asked how significant the location of isfahan was for this attack. it is very significant, it is the second city of iran and there are a lot of military bases around it and whether it is the real iranian revolutionary guard corps was, i wouldnt be at all surprised, and fairly near to where we believe irans nuclear weapon sights are. i think this attack is very much a demonstration of capability and perhaps intense. iran fired 3...

Irans response may be. but so far theyre extremely cautious, chris. >> so we wait. so colonel, do you think israels response was limited enough that both sides can now back away after showing, look, heres your warning. we have the ability to strike you. >> i dont see how it could be even more limited than it was. clearly calculated to reduce tensions, but to demonstrate that israel has the capability of doing and will do whatever it wants to do to defend itself. i think its interesting that we c...

City of iran, a lot of military bases around it, and as you say they appear to have hit a military base, whether it is islamic revolutionary guard corps, who knows, i would not be at all surprised. and fairly near to where we believe iran is trying to where we believe iran is trying to build nuclear weapons. so i expect a not to that. i think this attack is very much a demonstration of capability and perhaps intent. iran fires 300 plus missiles and grounds at israel, they virtually all get knock...