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Welcome to the show. So, another escalation in the Middle East. In the early hours of Friday, Israel's military struck deep inside Iran. The strike was on a military airbase near

Esfahan, a city in the country's center.

Iran says it fended off a separate attack in Tabriz, about 500 miles north of Esfahan.

All of this, unprecedented as it is, was a retaliation to Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel

on April 13th. When Tehran launched hundreds of armed drones and

crews and ballistic missiles at Israel. That was the first ever direct military attack from

Iranian soil on Israel. And with the help of the United States and some Arab and Gulf countries,

Israel says it thwarted 99% of the projectiles.

And all of that, of course, stay with me here. I want to get the chronology right here, was in response to a

suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus earlier this month.

Now, Iran and Israel have long been at war.

They've had a shadow war of sorts against each other since 1979.

But these latest strikes and counterstrikes and counter strikes have crossed lines that existed before, the line that they wouldn't directly attack

each other from each other's soil, the line that diplomatic missions were off limits, although that

particular norm has been violated in the past as well. All of this, all of these norms and

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