is further making the situation explosive ok just to be clear about that last particular point trita parsi what happens if the trumpet ministration slash general cousineau does not say to benjamin netanyahu look this cannot be step change but what happens after that if russia doesn't say that either well if there are no efforts from the outside to constrain this conflict then clearly there is going to be a higher risk of escalation but it's also going to be very important to see what happens just in the next couple of days the israelis have extensively bombarded parts of syria right now. is there going to be any attack from the lebanese side or from the syrian side into israeli territory if that doesn't happen then perhaps we're destroy them around there isn't the escalation but until there actually is proper diplomacy taking place there is going to be a continuation of this explosive mix in which at any point things can really go in the wrong direction trita parsi there in reston virginia always good to get your take on these ongoing stories coming to us out of syria many thanks thank you

earlier i spoke about south of his events with the president of the national iranian american council trita parsi first where the american you face in the syrian civil war i think it's important to keep in mind this is not the first time that there's been an iranian drone that either has gone into israeli territory or been very close by nor is it unusual that there have been israeli drones going into iranian territory flying from various different places as well as israeli assassination of the iranian scientists so there has been a degree war going on between the two countries for quite some time the question if this is now escalating to a completely new level and part of the challenge here again goes back to that there are no powers with the potential exception of russia that has enough power in and of itself and the capacity to talk to both the iranians entities the israelis in order to deescalate under previous circumstances united states might have had a stronger capacity to do so even though it didn't have much connections to the iranians where right now the united states is not really in a