00:00Polsky. Noga, good morning. I want to go back to the strikes we mentioned earlier on oil
00:05depots in Iran. Why is Israel targeting Iran's energy infrastructure?
00:11Good morning. This is what I can tell you what we know. Israel, the Israeli army is briefing here
00:19that these were not just random oil depots or random infrastructure, that the
00:27sites targeted last night are specifically used to supply military uses for fuel. And so this is
00:37being explained in Israel as part of the general attack against the infrastructure of power and
00:45the infrastructure of repression in Iran, that these were deposits, oil depots used to sustain the
00:53military effort. If we put it together with a few other things we're hearing here, it does seem to
00:59come together to a picture of Israel and the United States still really trying to effectuate regime
01:08change in Iran, despite how deeply entrenched we see that the government there is. Let me explain
01:16what I mean. The Israeli army is also briefing here that it expects the current phase of this campaign
01:24to last another two weeks. And this current phase is being described as what Prime Minister Netanyahu said
01:33in his remarks yesterday as, quote, is creating the conditions to overthrow the regime, creating the
01:40conditions under which Iranians, the Prime Minister said, should and could stand up and take power from their
01:49leaders. So it does appear that these attacks is an attempt to weaken, further weaken the military and the
01:58structure of repression, still with this aim of trying to enable somehow Iranians to then take power in their own
02:08hands. Prime Minister Netanyahu in his remarks yesterday didn't address these specific strikes in Iran or,
02:16frankly, either the retaliation that has hit Israel pretty hard overnight, but he did address himself
02:24extensively to Iranians, basically saying, we're creating the circumstances and the rest is in your hands.
02:31Naga, you mentioned that there was some hard retaliation last night. Can you tell us what have been the
02:35latest repercussions of this war for Israel? Yes, and it even started before last night. Iran has,
02:44Iran and Hezbollah, to be honest, Iran and its proxy in southern Lebanon have really ramped up
02:50the launches of missiles against Israel. So we're seeing a number of things. They're, they are still
02:57not launching these barrages of 80 missiles or so that we saw almost every day during the war in
03:04June. Instead, it is one missile to 10 missiles at a time. Yesterday, I think at one point we had
03:12seen
03:1230 missiles launched within a period of a half an hour, sometimes coordinated. This is important.
03:18Iran and Hezbollah from two completely separate places, launching missiles in a coordinated fashion
03:25to target Israel at the same time. What this is succeeding is in making real life, normal life
03:32in Israel impossible. The schools will now remain closed for another week. Obviously, even though the
03:38Israeli government is trying to declare the markets open, few people can go to work while their children
03:46are still stuck at home. Excuse me. And so we are talking about a national paralysis
03:54that this war is achieving. In Israel, there are a number of explanations being given for this tactic
04:01by Iran that maybe, in fact, so many Iranian missile launchers have been hit that they cannot launch the
04:09huge barrages we saw in June. Perhaps they're holding back because right now they're attacking so many
04:15other countries. It's not just Israel. And finally, perhaps they're holding back and sorry, because they're planning
04:24for a long campaign for a long war and Iran doesn't want to risk running out. So all of these
04:30things together,
04:31they have caused less death and destruction in Israel by not overwhelming the air, the anti-missile defense system,
04:41their defenses. But on the other hand, it is simply impossible to conduct normal life.
04:46And Israel really is in a paralysis of war completely right now.
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