And while for more on this, we now have with
us Doctor Zoray Karazami.
She's joining us live on the broadcast.
She is a professor in American studies department at the
University of Tehran.
Welcome to WEON NOW Doctor Zora.
Israel has said that it has completed the retaliatory strikes
on Iran.
According to reports Now, Iran has said that the precision
Israeli strikes will be met with proportional reaction.
The obvious question at this point of time is what
kind of retaliation can we expect from Iran as of
now?
Yeah, thank you very much.
First of all, the Israelis claims and retaliating is false
because the two strikes Iran did already was both in
retaliation and response to the act of regression that Israelis
had done.
One on the consulate center in Damascus that destroyed an
I and A light and then actually killed our diplomats.
And the second one was in the response of the
terror act of the actually healing and murdering Smayed Haniya
in Tehran.
So this time I can say that any new aggression
is done by Israelis, not, not an act of retaliation.
The second is that I'm living in Tehran, you know,
and in the just early morning, I woke up with
the with these voices and actually sort of maybe it
was an explosion or sort of air defence, for example,
machines.
But in the morning now I'm in the faculty and
everything is running well as usual in Iran, everything is
calm.
And officials said that they are investigating if it was
the act of sabonage like the Terex, like the sabonages
that Israelis always do, it can have one sort of
response.
And if it's just hitting with missiles.
So it's very can be counted much more aggressive because
after Iran, Iraq war, it would be the first time
that an foreign Air Force may interrogate and actually pass
the borders and hit Tehran.
That is very act that we cannot really ignore.
And I think the response would be even harsher.
I think anyway, Iran would response, I'm not sure when,
because it's very much depending on their strategies and the
military officials.
But, but, but my prediction is that it would be
the right to reply.
And this, this, this actual response would be even harsher
than the previous ones because as I said, it was
not a retaliation but an act of aggression, right?
And Iran has said that it will respond to the
act of aggression by Israel.
The statement coming out of Iran is that the strikes
by Israel and Iran has been limited.
And according to the Iranian officials, Israel has not achieved
their goals.
But I want to ask you that where were Irans
defenses when Israel launched those strikes in the early hours
of this morning?
How were Irans multilayer defense system functioning because we did
not see Iran perhaps intercepting those missile attacks from Israel.
I think that Israelis propaganda is much beyond what they
did.
And about this technical details, I think it's much better
to weigh the Iranian officials that are much more honest
than Israelis, because Israelis media were already started.
They try to magnify and actually overestimate what they did.
What I understand in my immediate environment in Tehran is
that it's not that harsh, it's not that successful that
they tried to say.
However, they said that it was the defence and actually
the military bases.
But the military bases should be something harsh exclusions or
something that has any visible consequences that we don't see
such a thing here.
But the Israeli and Americans media and the Western media
corporations are trying to make a sort of propaganda of
the Israel power in this sense that we don't believe
at the year of having the experience of the lies
and propaganda of this sort of media.
All right.
Do you think that the Israeli position strikes on Iran
will close out the direct conflict between Iran and Israel
at this point of time?
I don't think so.
None of the countries, not Iran, not Israel like to
escalate to a direct and full-fledged war.
Israel is not in the position to do so because
it's well trapped in southern Lebanon now.
They could not even enter to Lebanon.
That's a small country that doesn't have an army against
Hezbollah.
That is just a militia.
Actually.
Then you can imagine that how would be the confrontation
with Iran with full prepared military.
So I think Israel is not in the position and
Iran has not no determination to do so.
So I don't think it would be a direct and
full-fledged war.
Doctor Zakim Iran has confirmed that news is coming in.
Iran has confirmed that the strikes by Israel on Irans
military bases were limited.
You speak that Israel does not have the capabilities to
thwart Iranian attacks.
But on October 1st when Iran attacked Israel, around 100
missiles were launched from Iran towards Israel.
Most of them were intercepted by by Israel Iron Dome
and the the Arrow air defence system there now now
Israel also has the third missile defence system given by
the US along with the F16 positioned in Israel.
So at this point of time, how do you see
Israel perhaps thwarting any kind of Iranian attacks?
Because it does look like that.
The military posturing in Israel has only beefed up, Yeah,
even about the iron doom, about the Arab defense.
But you know that it's not Israel, but you're talking
about the United States military system in the region.
Israel is not in the position to even defend itself.
It's very weak, very much damaged.
But if if you talk about the American military system,
yes, it's advanced.
It has lots of facilities.
It already gave billions of dollars.
And actually this this our army staff to Israel and
all these, you know, war crimes and genocide that Israel
has done in the region was very much the blood
is in hands of the in hands of the United
States and they cannot clean it historically.
But about the capabilities even when you run a stroke
in response to Hania terror in Tehran in by the
the second lots of the hits were never reported.
A lot of censorship is in Israel.
The never lets the people know about the truth about
the real casualties about the real places hit.
So it would be something more than it was reported
by the Israeli actually reporters in Iran.
Still, we're waiting for the technical and and investigations to
see what really happened and how we intercepted or not,
right.
Doctor Crosby, thank you so much for joining us and
beyond with your insights.
And as of now, the Israeli cabinet and Ethan Yau's
office has said that they will assess the impact of
the precision strikes on Iran.
But thank you for joining us on the show with
your insights.
Thank you.