2024-10-02
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I'm Thomas Friedman and I'm the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times.
Well, It's Tuesday at 4:30 and what's happened today is really a very momentous the Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched a missile barrage at Israel at 7:30pm Israel time, in retaliation for the Israeli killing of the Iranian proxy militia leader in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, and also for the head of the Quds Force, Iran's kind of foreign legion, who was killed alongside Nasrallah.
So you see how much the Iranians are embedded with Hezbollah, literally on the ground, and this was their retaliation.
Most of the missiles were intercepted by the Israeli Air Force.
It was quite well anticipated.
There was damage and maybe a few injuries.
But it now has set up a situation where the Israeli Cabinet has been meeting to decide what, if any, retaliation Israel should undertake.
And that can range from another symbolic retaliation, as they did after the April 13th Iranian missile and drone all the way, I would suggest, to partnering with the United States, I would suggest, as a possibility.
I'm not recommending this all the way to the possibility of an Israeli or US Israeli attack on the Iranian nuclear facility.
I was tipped off by Israeli sources that the Iranian missile attack was imminent.
That was based on their own intelligence sources.
And I think the reason they tipped me off is that they actually wanted to see it in the New York Times because they wanted the Iranians to see it and they were actually hoping that it would deter them from undertaking the attack.