jamal wakim, in your opinion, why did israel choose to attack the iranian councel at this point in time? well, first we need to understand the nature of the objective targeted by israel, which is the iranian consulate considered as iranian. territory, we know that embassies and consults all over the world are considered as territories of the country that they represent, so this is a big red line that israel is crossing. in addition, it's targeting of course iranian diplomats other than the iranian military commanders, which is another factor that needs to be taken in consideration - so why at this time israel is going into such escalation, i believe that it's trying to achieve something a time when it's dragging on, the war is dragging on and it's not being able to achieve tangible results against the on resistance in gaza, nor against the... armed resistance in lebanon and it might be that the israelies want to turn the attention of the whole world, especially the west away from gaza onto a side conflict that it's trying to drag iran to in order to justify its continuous war against ga