and i'm joined now by mayor javedanfar an iranian born middle east commentator based in israel he is also a lecture on iranian politics for a private not for profit research college called the interdisciplinary center thank you so much for joining us and i'd like to just begin by asking you israel saying that it was retaliating following an iranian attack saying that iran is to blame for the escalation of violence here but is the golan heights incident really the start of all of us. no it's not you know where iran since it started helping bashar al assad when he needs to move war in two thousand and eleven as try to turn syria into a base for the transfer of weapons to hezbollah and also the and then moved on to building a base for itself to threaten the state of israel i mean according to foreign reports that more than one hundred israeli strikes against missile transfers from syria to to lebanon which was initiated by iran. have been also numerous israeli attacks against iranian targets according to far reports this is all part of the israeli strategy israel tried for many years to