I'm John Bats with my two good colleagues, David Dalyud and Bill Rajo, the FD's Long War Journal,

where you can read their filing of these matters routinely and every day, especially on days like this.

Bill, you have a question for David.

Yeah, David, what do you think the response will be

from the Iranian side as well as its proxy militias? Do you think the groups like Hezbollah,

the Houthis, or the bevy of Iraqi militias will be able to effectively weigh in against Israel

and possibly the United States?

I will answer that on the question, but we just had an important update to our earlier questions.

Prime Minister Netanyahu said Natanz has been destroyed. He was just doing a statement now.

In terms of potentially Iranian response and the success of this operation, Netanyahu said, advised Israelis not to be euphoric right now, to listen to Homefront Command instructions on their safety, on where to go in terms of confining shelter.

So there is an expectation still that Iran will retaliate. We'll see kind of how this thing plays out.

He also noted that this strike was supposed to be scheduled in April, and it was delayed for various reasons. Now, in terms of the Iranian regional array responding, look, there's two questions here. There's capability and there's wisdom of it. I think what Iran wants now,

but Iran's always wanted,

Iran wants to survive, right?

We tend to confuse,

or get confused by the fact that,

you know, these guys are,

yes, they're religious fanatics.

Yes, they have a crazy end goal,

but the way they're going about it is highly pragmatic.

They're working from within the system

that they despise the international order to bring it down. They're distinct from ISIS and that ISIS was a totally

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