Wednesday, June 25, 2025

06/25 Links Pt1: Iran Preferred to Surrender to the Great Satan; They Predicted World War III. They Were Wrong; Kohelet: Was Israel’s Strike on Iran’s State TV Legal?

From Ian:

Arsen Ostrovsky & David Harris: Netanyahu and Trump showed the kind of resolve Churchill himself would have saluted
Netanyahu and Trump seized the moment. They led – boldly and decisively.

To be clear: neither sought war. But Iran was at the nuclear precipice. The risk of military action was real. But the risk of inaction, of a nuclear-armed Iran, was far greater.

Today, many in the international community wring their hands, asking whether the strikes “destabilised” the region. But let’s be honest: what destabilises the region hasn't been the absence of a nuclear Iran – it's been the prospect of its arrival. What preserved global security wasn’t a weak and porous accord in Geneva, but the hard power of Israeli fighter jets and American B-2s over Iran.

Too many Western leaders still echo the same naïveté that once led Neville Chamberlain to declare “peace for our time.” Churchill exposed that delusion for what it was when he told Chamberlain: “You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.”

The Iranian regime is an heir apparent to the Nazis – not only in the infrastructure of death it has single-mindedly pursued, but in its oft-stated genocidal ambitions. The difference, however, is the scale of devastation it could have unleashed with nuclear weapons in their arsenal.

Netanyahu and Trump understood that inaction was not an option. Their courage may well have spared the world from catastrophe.

And now, with a ceasefire brokered by President Trump having been announced, we are reminded that such an outcome was not achieved through weakness or appeasement – but through the projection of power, strength and resolve. The kind of outcome Churchill himself would have saluted.

Ultimately, in striking Iran’s nuclear weapons programme, Netanyahu and Trump made the world a safer place. They did it not only in defence of their own countries, but in protection of the free world. Indeed, not since 1940, has so much been owed by so many to so few.
Why Trump Was Confident that Iran Was Building a Bomb
After a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, what's next is a period of negotiations. Israel wants a verifiable, ironclad agreement to prevent Iran from ever producing a nuclear weapon. Negotiators will confront this essential problem: Iran has been lying about its activities for more than 20 years. It said it wasn't trying to make a bomb even as it had its top scientists push toward weaponization. It claimed to be leveling with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but the IAEA concluded last month that it wasn't.

Israeli intelligence, backed by IAEA investigations, shows that after Iran ceased its Amad weaponization program in 2003, it secretly reconstituted a new effort to pursue similar research. The Iranians moved equipment from one set of secret sites to other covert locations, covering their tracks to evade IAEA inspectors, Israel and IAEA found.

This renewed push to make a bomb - as opposed to just enriching the fuel for one - was probably the trigger for the devastating war that Israel began on June 13. Israeli intelligence on Iranian weaponization was shared with me by a source familiar with the reports. Much of it tracks IAEA reports published on June 12 with the agency's stern warning that it couldn't "provide assurance that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful."

Trump has received much more detailed information from Israel, and officials say that's why he stated last week that Iran was actively seeking to build a weapon, despite a statement to the contrary in March by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Based on what I saw, I would be surprised if the House and Senate intelligence committees didn't conclude that U.S. analysts were being too cautious in preparing Gabbard's March 26 testimony that the intelligence community "continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon."

Iran's renewed weaponization program was called SPND, known in English as the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, according to an Israeli document. A key site at Shariati, in Tehran, "is part of Iran's concealment and deception efforts" and houses some of its technical laboratories and workshops. The site was struck by Israeli jets on June 13. Another key site, Sanjarian, near Parchin, produced detonators. It was also struck last week by Israeli jets.

Iran's weaponization infrastructure is now in ruins. Israel has destroyed the equipment - and killed the researchers - that were part of a secret bombmaking effort dating back 25 years. Any future nuclear agreement with Iran must reliably ban any restart of these activities.
Iran Preferred to Surrender to the Great Satan
Israel must ensure that Iran is not attempting a rapid breakout toward a basic nuclear weapon, such as a crude "dirty bomb" - using its remaining stockpile of 60% enriched uranium and several hundred advanced centrifuges reportedly hidden away.

As a result, Israel must now ramp up intelligence-gathering efforts in close coordination with the U.S. to verify how much high-level enriched uranium Iran still has, potentially enabling a swift nuclear breakout.

Another key focus is Iran's remaining missile capabilities. It's possible Iran also retains significant offensive capacity with cruse missiles and drones.

Negotiations over a new nuclear deal could take several months. If the results are unsatisfactory from Israel's perspective, or if Iran drags its feet, another military confrontation may be necessary.

It seems the Iranian leadership signaled their desire for a "dignified" ceasefire once they opted for a weak, pre-coordinated response to the U.S. strike.

This may not have been a traditional white-flag surrender, but Iran's move to let Washington know it sought to avoid escalation was a capitulation in all but name.

It's likely that the American strike accelerated the end of the war because surrendering to U.S. military pressure is considered more "honorable" than backing down in the face of Israeli strikes.

In the eyes of the Iranian regime, conceding to the "Great Satan" - the world's most powerful superpower - does less damage to its image and internal stability than appearing to fold before the "Little Satan," Israel.


A Weakened Iran Poses an Alliance Test for China, Russia and North Korea
As Iran reels from its gravest threat in decades, its alliance with China, Russia and North Korea—an axis that has increasingly alarmed the U.S. and allies—is facing a vital test: Will its partners come to its aid?

Beijing, Moscow and Pyongyang could offer Iran crucial assistance to recover from the damage inflicted by U.S. and Israeli strikes on its nuclear program and arsenal of conventional weapons. That could deepen the alliance, sending a powerful signal for potential conflicts in Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula and Eastern Europe.

Indeed, the three powers helped Iran build the nuclear program that the U.S. and Israel have tried to destroy.

The Isfahan facility, Iran’s largest nuclear-research complex and a prime target of the U.S. strikes, was built with Chinese assistance when it opened in 1984, according to the nonprofit Nuclear Threat Initiative. Three small, Chinese-supplied research reactors operate there.

North Koreans helped design the underground tunnels used in Iran’s nuclear sites. Moscow has said hundreds of Russian nuclear experts currently work inside Iran.

President Trump dismissed a preliminary intelligence report that suggested Iran’s nuclear program was set back by months. WSJ Middle East Correspondent Jared Malsin explains what we know so far.

But China, Russia and North Korea don’t appear eager to rush to Iran’s side. A big reason: President Trump’s decision to insert the U.S. into Israel’s assault on Iran by striking the country’s nuclear facilities has made helping Tehran recover far riskier and more geopolitically fraught.

“Iran could literally build back better,” said Behnam Ben Taleblu, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. But he remains skeptical that such support is coming soon. “A rising tide that lifts all boats is not the principle that governs this axis of authoritarians,” he said.
Seth Mandel: Pooh-Poohing the Iran Bombing
Now, the CNN and Times reports are correct in critiquing the word “obliterated,” which President Trump used in his address to the nation on Saturday night. The US mission to the United Nations, which delivered the administration’s own initial claims to that forum, didn’t repeat the world. Instead, the US said it had “effectively fulfilled our narrow objective: to degrade Iran’s capacity to produce a nuclear weapon,” as well as to “mitigate the threat posed by Iran to Israel, the region and to, more broadly, international peace and security.”

As the Times story notes, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday that the bombing campaign “was designed to severely degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons infrastructure.”

The threat, then, is not that the pre-bombing nuclear program in Iran will be back up and running in a few months to where it was. The threat is that if Iran has indeed squirreled away enriched uranium, it doesn’t have to start the entire process of enrichment over again. But it still needs facilities to enrich the surviving uranium to weapons-grade level. We are not talking about Walter White cooking meth in an RV. It still needs housing for that uranium, and a myriad of other components necessary to produce an actual bomb.

Additionally, as Albright notes, we know the leaked report is already outdated. It underestimated the amount of uranium that was buried in the strikes and therefore based its conclusions on Iran’s having more uranium to work with than it actually does. Reassessments will continue, and our knowledge of what happened in the raid will grow in accuracy.

The only way it is correct to say that Iran would be able now to sprint to a bomb in six months is if nothing else changes. That would mean Israel would be rolling up up its spy network in Iran, would not be patrolling the skies above the country, and the US satellites wouldn’t be watching. It would also mean Iran doing nothing at the bargaining table to satisfy Trump. Perhaps the Iranians will be stubborn and obnoxious. But that won’t mean the Israelis will end their surveillance and stand down forever—and will only encourage the US to supply every piece of intelligence it can garner.

What is going to happen is that any Iranian attempts to get back in the blocked facilities will be stopped in their tracks by the Israel Air Force. And Israel’s agents within Iran will likely have more, not less, success from here on out because the chain of command is decimated. Also decimated? The team of scientists working on the program. Ayatollah Khamenei cannot simply ChatGPT his way to a bomb even if he’s got a few canisters of uranium in his wine cellar.

Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons has been made more dangerous for them, vastly more expensive, and more difficult by significant margins. And any progress at all will have to evade Israel’s watchful eye.

Trump’s insistence on an immediate ceasefire may turn out to have been a miscalculation—perhaps even a costly one. It’s possible that the Iranian pursuit of nukes could have been finished off and weren’t. But that is not because the bombings were ineffectual.
Mossad hails Israel’s ‘historic’ Iran offensive, thanks CIA in rare public message
In a rare public message Wednesday, the Mossad hailed Israel’s “historic” operation against Iran, declaring that the longstanding Iranian threat was significantly neutralized thanks to the 12-day aerial campaign.

“These are historic days for the people of Israel. The Iranian threat, which has endangered our security for decades, has been significantly neutralized,” the intelligence agency said in a statement, hailing its cooperation with the IDF and accompanying American support for the surprise offensive.

“Israel, thanks to this entire security apparatus, today feels like a different country, a safer country, a braver country that is prepared for the future,” said Mossad chief David Barnea in a video accompanying the written statement.

“Objectives that once seemed imaginary have now been achieved,” he continued, speaking from a Mossad operational command center. “We will continue to keep a watchful eye on all known Iranian projects — we are intimately familiar with them — and we will be there, just as we have been until now.”

He also thanked the US Central Intelligence Agency, whose cooperation “helped make the operation possible.”

The CIA itself meanwhile issued a statement on Wednesday attributed to its director, John Ratcliffe, in which it confirmed “that a body of credible intelligence indicates Iran’s nuclear program has been severely damaged by the recent, targeted strikes.”

“This includes new intelligence from a historically reliable and accurate source/method that several key Iranian nuclear facilities were destroyed and would have to be rebuilt over the course of years,” the CIA statement added.

The Mossad played a crucial role in Operation Rising Lion, and reportedly enlisted its agents to smuggle attack drones into Iran via trucks, shipping containers and even suitcases.

Mossad agents inside Iran then gathered the equipment and handed it out to teams who prepared the drones for use within the country. Once airstrikes began, the drones took out air defense systems while also hitting surface-to-surface missile launchers aimed at Israel.

In addition, vehicles carrying weapons systems were smuggled into Iran, giving Israeli planes air supremacy and freedom of action within the country’s airspace. Screenshot from footage released by the Mossad showing strikes carried out by commandos of the Israeli spy agency on Iranian air defenses in Iran, June 13, 2025. (Mossad screenshot)

In another statement made Wednesday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir called the operation a definitive success, also divulging that Israeli commando forces operated within Iran during the war.

“After 12 days of unprecedented fighting, I can say that the IDF operated at its best and fully achieved the aims and objectives of the operation,” he said. “According to the assessment of senior officials in the IDF Intelligence Directorate, the damage to the nuclear program is not a localized blow, but a systemic one.”

He claimed that Tehran’s nuclear program “suffered severe, broad, and deep damage and was pushed back by years.”

“We will not allow Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction,” the IDF chief averred, adding that Israel caused significant damage to the Tehran’s missile-launching capabilities, managed to remove hundreds of launchers and significantly delayed Tehran’s force build-up plans.

“We managed to achieve intelligence, technological, and aerial superiority. We reached a level of operational freedom in the skies of Iran and in every location we chose to act in,” Zamir said.


Eli Lake: They Predicted World War III. They Were Wrong.
Opposing Israel and America’s war against Iran’s nuclear program led some far-right influencers to attack Trump himself. Candace Owens, who couldn’t let a good geopolitical crisis distract her from her obsession with Jews, posted this beauty on June 13: “Our foreign policy is dictated by Israel. Trump will continue to do as he is told by Netanyahu. If you want to know what America will do, spare yourself the fake White House press briefings and start listening to Bibi.” Two days later she outdid herself. “Get ready, white American men! It’s time for you to go die for Israel again,” she posted on June 15. “If you don’t want to die for Israel then you are an antisemite. Sign up to die in Iran for Netanyahu today, or just admit you hate Jews.”

Does Owens speak for the MAGA movement? Not according to recent polling. A Reagan Institute poll of self-identified MAGA Republicans conducted before the Israel-Iran war found that for 74 percent, preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon “matters a great deal.” A YouGov/CBS poll conducted this week found that 85 percent of Republicans and 94 percent of MAGA Republicans approved of Trump’s strike.

Posts like that also put Owens squarely in opposition to Vice President J.D. Vance, the leader of the restrainers inside the Trump administration. While Owens bemoans a factitious Israeli takeover of the American government, Vance is taking a victory lap. He posted on Tuesday, “We are seeing a foreign policy doctrine develop that will change the country (and the world) for the better: 1) clearly define an American interest; 2) negotiate aggressively to achieve that interest; 3) use overwhelming force if necessary.”

Not every MAGA influencer who opposed the 12-day war is lashing out. Having been wrong at every juncture in this conflict and ignored by the president, some restrainers are now claiming credit for the war’s conclusion. Jason Whitlock, a podcaster on the Blaze Network, mused that Carlson and others “put enough pressure on President Trump and Israel to make a ceasefire (for now) the only option. Our political leaders need well-intentioned pushback.”

That’s certainly one way of spinning a series of delusional warnings that never came to pass. Park MacDougald, a writer and editor at Tablet, quipped on X that Whitlock’s post “is like believing the sun rose because you killed a goat.”

It wasn’t just that Carlson and the restrainers got the short war all wrong. It was that they tried to spin a tale that the leader of their movement, Donald Trump, was a chump, easily manipulated by the world’s only Jewish state. Trump proved them wrong on that as well. On Tuesday morning he lashed out at Israel for planning a counterattack to a final Iranian missile strike. Israel turned its jets around after the president made his disfavor known to the world. So much for the argument that he was just Netanyahu’s puppet.
Israeli Source: "We Know Where Iran's Enriched Uranium Is"
An Israeli security source told Saudi channel Al-Hadath that most of Iran's enriched uranium is "buried under the ruins" of nuclear sites.

"We know exactly where Iran moved its enriched uranium, but we will not attack it to avoid causing a nuclear disaster," the source said, emphasizing that "Iran's nuclear capabilities, infrastructure, facilities and centrifuges have been destroyed."


Trump to Ayatollah: ‘Sure’ I’ll Blow Up Your Nuclear Program Again—if You Manage To Rebuild It
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is fully prepared to authorize further strikes on Iran’s nuclear program if the hardline regime attempts to reconstitute its heavily damaged atomic infrastructure, but signaled that outcome is unlikely after American airstrikes "hit brutally and it knocked it out" for years to come.

Asked if he is willing to authorize future military action, Trump responded, "Sure," but indicated that there will likely be no need.

"It's gone for years, years," Trump said of the Fordow mountain bunker. "It's very tough to rebuild because the whole thing is collapsed. Nobody can get in to see it because it's collapsed. You can't go in to see a room that has 10 million tons of rock in it, and the tunnels are totally collapsed."

The president’s fresh assessment comes in the wake of a series of reports late Wednesday suggesting the strikes did not destroy significant portions of Iran’s nuclear program and only set the Islamic Republic’s weapons program back by a few months.

The reports, from CNN and the New York Times, centered on an early Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment that found Iran’s centrifuges are still "intact" and that the U.S. strikes only "set [Iran] back maybe a few months, tops." That analysis, however, was deemed low-confidence and relied on satellite imagery and signal intelligence—a fact CNN initially omitted from its widely viewed report.

Other analyses of satellite images determined the U.S. and Israeli strikes "effectively destroyed Iran's centrifuge enrichment program," according to a Tuesday evening report by the Institute for Science and International Security. "It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack."

Officials in Tehran, meanwhile, delivered false reports about the damage around Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan—Iran’s three main nuclear facilities—according to communications reportedly intercepted by Israel in recent days. The disinformation campaign could have influenced early American intelligence gathering, minimizing the damage caused by Saturday’s airstrikes.


White House: Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — and Suggestions Otherwise are Fake News
The world is far safer after President Donald J. Trump’s highly successful, decisive precision strikes against the Iranian regime’s key nuclear facilities.

Take it from those who actually know:

President Trump: “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term! The white structure shown is deeply imbedded into the rock, with even its roof well below ground level, and completely shielded from flame. The biggest damage took place far below ground level. Bullseye!!!”

Israel Atomic Energy Commission: “The devastating US strike on Fordo destroyed the site’s critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. We assess that the American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran’s military nuclear program, has set back Iran’s ability to develop nuclear weapons by many years. The achievement can continue indefinitely if Iran does not get access to nuclear material.”

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir: “I can say here that the assessment is that we significantly damaged the nuclear program, and I can also say that we set it back by years, I repeat, years.”

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei: “Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that’s for sure.”

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi: “Given the explosive payload utilized, and the extreme vibration-sensitive nature of centrifuges, very significant damage is expected to have occurred. At the Esfahan nuclear site, additional buildings were hit, with the US confirming their use of cruise missiles. Affected buildings include some related to the uranium conversion process. Also at this site, entrances to tunnels used for the storage of enriched material appear to have been hit. At the Natanz enrichment site, the Fuel Enrichment Plant was hit, with the US confirming that it used ground-penetrating munitions.”

Institute for Science and International Security President David Albright: “Overall, Israel’s and U.S. attacks have effectively destroyed Iran’s centrifuge enrichment program. It will be a long time before Iran comes anywhere near the capability it had before the attack.”


Trump: Iran nuclear sites suffer ‘total obliteration’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday addressed the aftermath of U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, describing the operation, dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer,” a decisive blow.

Speaking at the NATO summit in The Hague, Trump said, “Israel is going to be telling us very soon because Bibi is going to have people involved in that whole situation,” referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We hear it was obliteration. It was a virtual obliteration,” he added.

Trump emphasized the scale of the attack, stating, “I don’t believe they had a chance to get anything out because we acted fast.” Israel, he added, “is doing a report on it now, I understand. And I was told that they said it was total obliteration. You know, they have guys that go in there after the hit, and they say it was total obliteration.”

Trump claimed the Iranian nuclear program had been set back “basically decades because I don’t think they will ever do it again… I think they’re going to take their oil. They’re going to have some missiles and they will have some defense. I think they’ve had it. They just went through hell… the last thing they want to do is enrich.”

He warned that if Iran attempted to rebuild its nuclear program, the United States would strike again, but insisted “we’re not going to have to worry about that. It’s gone for years. Very tough to rebuild because the whole thing has collapsed.”

Iran’s leaders “want to recover, and we won’t let that happen. Number one. Militarily we won’t,” said Trump. “The last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now.”

Reflecting on the ceasefire, Trump said, “I think we’ll end up having somewhat of a relationship with Iran. I see it. Look. I’ve had a relationship over the last four days. They agreed to the ceasefire. And it was a very equal agreement. [Israel and Iran] both said ‘that’s enough.’ They both said it.” He concluded, “They’re not going to have a bomb and they’re not going to enrich. We had a tremendous victory, a tremendous hit.”


Cappy Army: What's Left of Iran's Nuclear Bunkers?
American B-2 Bombers bombed Iran's Nuclear Facilities at Fordow and Natanz with GBU-57 Bunker Buster Bombs but did they actually totally destroy the facility or just set Iran back a few years? The capabilities of these bombers are a major U.S military power that no other country has.




‘A lot of haters’: Trump’s B-2 bombing run on Iran’s nuclear facilities lashed by media
International Security Expert Max Abrahms says he “trusts the science” after claims the bombs dropped by B-2 bombers were not strong enough to take out Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

“I certainly am of the opinion that both the Americans and Israelis did substantial damage to Iran’s nuclear program,” Mr Abrahms told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

“That seems to be the position of Israeli intelligence, the Americans.”




UKLFI: ‘Every right to respond’: Israel maintains ability to act under ceasefire imposition
UKLFI Charitable Trust Legal Director Natasha Hausdorff says Israel has maintained the ability to act in the event that threats materialise in the context of a ceasefire.

“It also had every right to respond … to Iran’s breach of that ceasefire,” Ms Hausdorff told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“It has maintained the ability and the right to act as and when it sees threats materialising, even in the context of a ceasefire.”


Kohelet Policy Forum: Was Israel’s Strike on Iran’s State TV Legal? A Law of War Analysis
On June 16, 2025, Israel struck Iran’s state broadcaster, IRIB. Was it legal? Under international law - yes. Article 52 of the Geneva Conventions allows targeting dual-use facilities that contribute to military action and offer a clear military advantage. IRIB served both as a propaganda tool and a military communications hub.


Ben Shapiro: PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH: Triumphant Trump ENDS Israel-Iran War!
President Trump declares a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, ending what he calls the “12-Day War”; we examine what was accomplished; and we analyze who got it wrong and why.


Haviv Rettig Gur joins The Moynihan Report 6/24
The Times of Israel’s senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur joins The Moyihan Report to talk about the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran, what Hamas has been up to while the world’s gaze was fixed on Iran, and he even wades into the NYC mayoral primaries.




Call me Back Podcast: CEASEFIRE! - with Nadav Eyal & Amit Segal
It feels like a month’s worth of news has erupted out of the Middle East since Saturday night, when the U.S. bombed Iran’s three key nuclear facilities. On Monday, the IRGC responded by firing missiles at the American El Udeid Air base in Qatar – an attack it warned Qatar (and the U.S.) about beforehand. Throughout that day, the Israeli Air Force struck critical IRGC targets, including multiple hubs of internal operations, military headquarters, missile production sites, radar systems, and missile storage infrastructure. In a highly symbolic move, the IAF struck Evin Prison – known for holding Iranian dissidents – as well as Iran’s so-called “Israel doomsday clock,” located in Tehran’s “Palestine square.”

And then, at 6:02pm EST, President Trump announced a “complete and total ceasefire” via Truth Social.

Shortly before the ceasefire began, Iran launched six successive missile barrages toward targets throughout Israel. At around 5:40am Israel time, one of these missiles impacted a residential building in Beersheba, tragically killing four people and injuring 22.

At 10:30am Israel time, about three-and-a-half hours after the ceasefire was meant to take effect, Iran fired two missiles at Israel’s North. Israeli officials vowed to respond forcefully to this breach in the ceasefire, but settled for a “symbolic” target – an Iranian radar north of Tehran – after pressure from President Trump not to escalate.

To unpack the history that’s taken place over the past few days; the details of the ceasefire and how it will be enforced; and how a possible end to this Iran War (or this phase of the Iran War) could impact the Gaza War and the hostages, we are joined once again by senior analyst at Yedioth Achronot and Call me Back regular Nadav Eyal and chief political analyst at Channel 12 and another Call me Back regular Amit Segal.

00:00 Introduction
04:46 How was the ceasefire reached?
08:37 The view in Israel
14:20 What about the uranium?
23:29 The U.S. mission
28:22 Israel / Saudi normalization
39:33 How does this end?
44:24 Closing




‘Cautious optimism’: Israelis hopeful the ceasefire will ‘stick’
Israel’s Foreign Ministry Special Envoy Fluer Hassan-Nahoum says Israelis got a “good night sleep” after the ceasefire with Iran.

Ms Hassan-Nahoum told Sky News host Chris Kenny there is a “cautious optimism” that the ceasefire will “stick”.

“It’s exhausting and it’s heartbreaking that we’re still in the middle of this war.”


Leaked call unveils intelligence operation
Former Mossad official Rami Igra reacts to a leaked call where a Mossad agent tells an Iranian general that he has 12 hours to escape with his family.

“My telephone number is known in Tehran, and I’ve been receiving these kinds of messages for the last two years, more or less,” Mr Igra told Sky News host Sharri Markson.

“Funny enough, half of these messages are threatening, and half of these messages are people that wish to be recruited and help Israel.

“So you find a very diverse Iranian society, and this diverse society is a very good hunting ground for intelligence agencies.”


Israel achieved ‘clear’ and ‘defined’ objectives in war against Iran
Israeli-American speaker Hillel Fuld says Israel had “clear” and “defined” objectives which they achieved in the war against Iran.

“We had clear objectives to this war … we defined and we achieved all of them,” Mr Fuld told Sky News host Steve Price.

“The talk about, Israel did not win, is silly and ridiculous.”






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