Damascus. israel responded iran then responded with the attack that we all saw over the weekend, firing more than 300 drones, primarily, but also missiles, nearly all shut down, and it caused almost no damage in this country. after that there has been tremendous activity with president biden personally calling minister, benjamin not netanyahu telling him to take the win meeting that iran israel carried out at attack and then stopped the iranian response. arab countries, including arab countries, allied to israel, have made it clear they did not want to see an escalation, they did not what their airspace to be used for escalation there has been a lot of back-and- forth a lot of messages being sent to both sides, and it
Was able, able to intercept the missiles, the drones that was suggesting why some were suggesting two prime minister benjamin and yahoo to quote unquote, take the win. what does it say that iran could not defend against this attack? well, for one thing, iran does not have anything similar to the iron dome. so it s clear defenses are fairly antiquated in comparison to the israeli earned offenses. they re not an effective, but they are not as effective as the israeli air defense system, which is a highly sophisticated, one of the best it s in the world. so that is really why you see this difference. and of course, we will have to wait for the battle damage assessments to come out and to get some idea of exactly what was here too, and how effective the israeli strikes work. but it seems like they were able to do this pretty much with impunity. and it tells us that there are basically holes in the iranian air defense system. and that the israelis can take advantage of them if they feel the need
Journalists? yes, indeed, these happened. they really wanted the israelis. it seems to me to own this in a way, especially because they had been so public the days leading up to it. and they re advice to the netanyahu government to essentially avoid escalating the situation even further and perhaps even holding off striking all together. so i think there s a real desire here in washington on the part of the administration not to be in the middle of this round of retail palliation and striking between israel and iran. but of course that s a distinction perhaps without a difference in tehran, which views the united states and israel as, as as intertwined partners. david jordan s foreign minister just told my colleague, jim sciutto, the israeli prime minister, benjamin, the time yeah, it was benefiting from the recent escalation in the middle east. do you agree yeah, there s
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