ellie whisk. welcome to the program. tell us what you think about uh why the strike took place and if it had anything to do. with the irgc strikes that happened in her bill just days ago, well obviously it's linked to what you just mentioned about the attack on the musad station which took place in arbil um importantly as well, however the the iranians if you recall iran struck um syria uh idlib which was also i believe message that was sent to the israeli side that um iran can target. areas quite close to israel's home front or to the israeli front in general. um now we have this retaliation from the israeli side which appears to be trying to you know defy iran if you would like or to challenge iran. so it appears that this um this exchange of confrontation um appears to be continuing the israelis appear intent on escalating the situation further. i think netanyahu in particular and i think it's important to note as well. that uh when they talk about the third phase, the israelis, the americans and the israelis, but the

ellie whisk is a political analyst who joins us from beirot. elly wisk, welcome to the program. taking a look at the uh strikes that have occurred by the irgc, tell us a little bit more if you can about the timing of these uh attacks, why they chose this time and of course uh the particular locations uh relative to the strike. "well this is uh, i believe a unique strike, particularly the uh, the one in syria, but i think most important of all is that iran show that it can respond on two fronts simultaneously, you had a response to the terrorist attacks in karman, and you also had a response to the assassination of the senior ir revolutionary gaz official, um, so i think that speaks a lot of..." about the capability of iran, showing that it's able to carry out, these two retaliation simultaneously, lot was being said before these operations that iran was not facing up to the challenge or that iran was taking the situation lying down a lot of the latest escalation which has taken place, so i think that these latest operations have come to send the