israel, which is in keeping with what we saw from a ram, the direct territory to territory attack. so potentially, it wasn't it wasn't too destroy something. we had a us official telling cnn as well that they thought it was possible that israel would try and carry out an attack and make sure they were no casualties but just more fought for show to show that they can re-establish the sense of the text hello, thank you. pull the hancocks life for us in beirut and also nic robertson lifers in jerusalem. this out, thanks to you both could now lot to tehran and abbas has lani, a journalist and senior research fellow at the center for middle east strategic studies. as i think he's being with us thank you, john, for having me. >> it's a pleasure now how i just from your point of view, how's this story being reported then given the government's tight control over the media, is that indicative of where the government actually stands right now in trying to play