00:00We were talking yesterday, but as tensions between Israel and Iran escalate, Riyad, what's your assessment of where things stand right now?
00:10Right now, we have a continuation of the exchanges.
00:15On the one side, Israel has established air superiority, so Israel is carrying out its attacks from the air.
00:25But Iran, on the other side, is still using almost its sole tool, the sole weapon that can strike in the heart of Israel, which is the ballistic missiles.
00:40They use sometimes drones, but they have been ineffective, and the Israelis have been able to shoot them down even before reaching the Israeli borders.
00:49The strikes into Israel from the Iranian side are becoming or are being seen as becoming more destructive.
01:03Although, if we look at the numbers, we still see that the ability of penetration is still the same.
01:13It's 10% ratio of the missiles being fired that are able to penetrate the air defenses.
01:21But the issue here is that Israel, first, is a small country compared to Iran, much smaller.
01:26And the population is mostly concentrated up in the northern part of the country, you know, from the center to the north.
01:38And the Iranians have been targeting this section because it's most populated, has many of the military bases for many reasons.
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