acting in order to eliminate officials over the last several years and iran never attacked and never responded so there's been a whole series of miscalculations and it looks like now they are trying to say, i can do it to you. you can do it to me. we can all do it to each other, but we don't want to go into all out war. >> that appears to be what's happening right now. >> i spoke to an israeli general just before this attack happened. said israel had to do, needed to do three things. one, respond to last weekend's aerial barrage from iran to not take its focus of the war in gaza. and three, not lose the sudden goodwill that israel has gained from the international community after iran struck it. remember? number israel was definitely on the defensive over. its its counteroffensive in gaza, which is causing so much civilian casualties the g7 was meeting when the strike