joining us is patrick sykes out of istanbul. the risk of iran intervening has not been met with a ton of welcome, not even from the u.s. or arabian peers. talk about what we know about the risk. patrick: i think oliver is right about that, the different perception from the region itself. iran's message to the u.s. has been you are calling for restraint from everyone in the region but at the same time you are sending aircraft carriers and helping to arm israel. at the same time, they are warning that if this am a what they call war crimes in gaza, continue, the situation could get out of control. so far they are not spelling out what that could look like. they are leaving some ambiguity about who might get involved and how, if at all, iran could get involved. would it be through proxies, would it be directly. i think that's the next question. at the same time, blinken has been doing his diplomatic tour and the armenian foreign minister has been doing the same, sort of parallel diplomatic trek the past few days. the only spot where

patrick sykes joins us from istanbul and oliver crook joins us from tel aviv.r, give us the latest from where you are. >> it has been a very eventful weekend. there were first steps that had not occurred since the conflict began over two weeks ago. the first was aid crossing into gaza which was a very significant step. it is not enough aid according to the gazans and certainly according to the health organizations and other organizations. it is really a drop in the bucket. the 20 trucks of the first load were less than 5% to the aid gaza was getting before the war. the second was the hostages being released which was a meaningful step but again, two people out of more than 200 that are unaccounted for for the israeli and u.s. side. that is going to be seen as a positive but perhaps not yet enough. that all goes into the very complex equation we have been talking about, about if and when the ground offensive takes shape. as we have been talking about the last week or so the israel defense force has kept an open latitude in terms of saying do not have preconcepti