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As far as the Mullahs are concerned, the Ayatollahs are concerned, if you're not coming

there to Tehran and you're not, and Israel is not preaching for that, it's not pushing for that,

nobody's talking about boots on the ground. You know, so the country would

be poorer, more devastated. It will have less of the military power. It will attack Israel in other

ways. It will try to fund terror attacks against Jews around the world. It will seek its revenge,

but they might not go for an agreement, but they will have less of an ability to develop nuclear weapons.

It's 12 p.m. on Friday, June 20th, here in New York City. It's 7 p.m. on Friday, June 20th here in New York City. It's 7 p.m. on Friday, June 20th in Israel,

as Israelis enter Shabbat after a day of extensive missile barrages from Iran. On Wednesday, we reported in our news roundup that the damage resulting from Iranian missile barrages

had lessened over the past few days. And we had hoped that this was an indication of Iran's

dwindling missile arsenal and the strength of Israel's air defense. Well, at around 8 a.m. on

Thursday, a barrage of Iranian missiles landed three direct hits, causing immense destruction and some injuries.

But thankfully, no casualties.

One of the missiles hit Ramatgan, another hit Cholon, and the third directly hit the Soroka Medical Center,

which is the largest hospital in Israel's south.

Though it sounds strange to say, there's actually a miraculous story behind

Iran's strike on the Soroka Medical Center. The head of Maganda Vita Dome, Israel's emergency

medical services, said this morning that just the night before the attack, Soroka had been

instructed to evacuate patients from certain floors due to the threat of missile attacks.

The missile that struck Soroka Thursday morning hit one of the floors that had been evacuated

the previous night. The IDF has announced that at least one of the ballistic missiles were

within the barrage that hit Soroka was carrying a cluster bomb warhead. These warheads carry multiple

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