REPORTS ABOUT SATELLITE IMAGERY AND THAT IT WAS A 15 MISSILE.
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>>> ON TUESDAY, IT LOOKED LIKE
THE U.S. AND IRAN WERE ON THE
BRINK OF WAR AND ISRAEL ALSO
BRACING FOR POSSIBLE RETALIATION
FROM THE IRANIAN BACKED MILITARY
GROUP, HEZBOLLAH.
GROUP, HEZBOLLAH. >> Reporter: ALISON, IF THIS IS
INDEED THE END OF THIS EPISODE,
I THINK EVERYBODY IS RELIEVED.
THE IRANIANS SAID THIS WAS A
SLAP IN THE FACE FOR DONALD
TRUMP AND THE U.S.
U.S. OFFICIALS SAID IT LOOKED
MORE LIKE A SLAP ON THE WRIST.
I THINK THE ENTIRE REGION WAS
EXPECTING MORE LIKE A PUNCH TO
THE GUT AND INSTEAD NOTHING
SEEMED TO HAPPEN.
ALL MOVING AHEAD BACK TO NORMAL
BASICALLY THE SAME KIND OF PROXY
WAR IRAN HAD BEEN FIGHTING
THROUGHOUT THE REGION THE LAST
SEVERAL DECADES.
SEVERAL DECADES. ISRAELIS WERE SOMEWHAT CONCERNED
ABOUT THIS.
ABOUT THIS. THEY’RE ON A HEIGHTENED STATE OF
ALERT.
ALERT. HARD TO TELL WHEN ISRAEL IS ON A
HEIGHTENED STATE OF ALERT
BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS ARE.
WE HEARD FROM NETANYAHU, AND
THEY EXPECTED THIS WAS AN
AMERICAN AND IRANIAN ISSUE AND
NOTHING WOULD HIT IN GREATER
ISRAEL, NOT FROM LEBANON TO THE
NORTH AND GAZA STRIP OR HAMAS
ALSO BOTH BACKED BY IRAN.
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
THERE WERE NO CONSEQUENCES FOR
ISRAEL EVEN THOUGH IN THE PAST,
IRANIANS AND HEZBOLLAH HAVE
RARELY MET AN EVENT OR
CONSPIRACY THEORY THEY HAVEN’T
BLAMED ON ISRAEL.
THEY EXPECT THE IRANIANS WILL
DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION AND U.S. POLICY
IN THE REGION.
IS THIS REALLY OVER?
IT’S REALLY HARD TO SAY.
WE JUST HEARD FROM THE IRANIANS
THERE IS GOING TO BE A FOLLOW-UP
ATTACK ON THE NEWS AGENCY.
RIGHT NOW, IT SEEMS LIKE THIS
WAS ALMOST PERFECTLY SUITED FOR
DOMESTIC IRANIAN CONSUMPTION.
THE IRANIANS REPORTED ON THEIR
OWN DOMESTIC TELEVISION CHARGES
AS MANY AS 40 TO 80 AMERICANS
WERE KILLED IN THIS BOMB STRIKE.
THAT’S NOT TRUE.
WE HEARD FROM THE AMERICANS AND
IRAQIS AND NATO THERE WERE NO
CASUALTIES AND THESE BOMBS
SEEMED TO LAND ALMOST
DELIBERATELY BECAUSE THEY SEEMED
TO BE VERY DELIBERATE TO
MILITARY BASES IN IRAQ, THEY
WERE TARGETED AND SEEMED TO
DELIBERATELY MISS, SEEMS
IRANIANS WERE TRYING TO ACTIVELY
DE-ESCALATE IT CONSISTENT WITH
WHAT THEY SAID PUBLICLY, TRYING
TO AVOID A CONFRONTATION.
EVERYBODY IN THIS REGION
INCLUDING ISRAELIS EXPECT THIS
TO CONTINUE.
TO CONTINUE. THERE WILL BE AN ACTUAL
RETALIATION THAT WILL LOOK MORE
LIKE A PUNCH TO THE GUT.
RIGHT NOW, ONCE AGAIN, THE BALL
IS IN EVERYBODY’S COURT.