of international relations from the lebanese university, joining us live from beirot, and also saeb shath, author and west asia expert who is joining us live from belfast. thank you very much. to both of you gentlemen for joining us, now uh, this was the big news of the day, making the headlines and of course uh attracting lot of attention uh, and of course it should, definitely deserves that much attention, because although we've had israel uh undermining syria's sovereignty time and again attacking different targets in syria's soil, this time it crossed very big red line by attacking the consulate of... iran right next to its embassy in damascus, raising the whole building to the ground. so mr. 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