I don't know what more Iran has to do to countries that frankly nobody cares about like Syria, like Lebanon, like Yemen, before the world takes seriously the massive destructive capacity of this regime.

But this situation now in which America and Europe, of this

capacity of this situation now in which America and Europe cower and fear and incompetence

and the enemy feels they can march in this way across the Middle East and destroy us

in its own good time and its own slow and steady pace, that is not

tolerable.

We have reached a point where we have concluded that they haven't left us options. Our only option is to call their bluff in the hope

that they're not calling our bluff and that we actually have the capability to see

this through. It's 6 o'clock p.m. on the it's 6 o'clock p.m. on Sunday, August 4th here in New York City. It's 1 o'clock p.m. on Sunday August 4th here in New York City. It's 1 o'clock a.m. on Monday

August 5th in Israel as Israelis transition to their new day. And I'm pleased to bring back to this podcast for one of our check-ins

Haviv Reticour from the Times of Israel, who joins us from his home just outside of Jerusalem.

Haviv, good to see you.

Dan, it's good to be here.

How are you doing?

I'm okay, a little stress these days because of developments in your neighborhood

in your neck of the woods, but we'll talk about that.

Just to summarize where we're at, late last week,

according to some sources,

Israel made a bold move by assassinating Ismail Haniya in Iran in what is like the Blair house of Tehran during the week-long inaugural ceremonies of Iran's new president.

It was a highly symbolic attack that some are observing was a

huge hit to Iranian pride, a major embarrassment to Iran's leaders in Iran's security establishment.

And the question is, is that move going to force Iran into a counter move

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