David Rothkopf: Iran Acted with a ‘Degree of Restraint’

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ROTHKOPF: "No, I think everyone thought Iran was going to respond. And I think some people, if you ask them off the record, would say that the manner in which Iran responded, it wasn’t responsible. It could have caused a lot of damage. But they were telegraphing their punches. They did give Israel a chance to prepare, they did communicate to the United States through third- party intermediaries, they did say that they hope that this would be the end of it. So they have acted with a degree of restraint, even though the attack was really quite sweeping in its sort of dramatic effect. So that is an encouraging sign. And I think a lot of people would hope that not only will Israel sort of act with restraint going forward, but that perhaps we can move back to the kind of shadow conflict that Israel and Iran have been in for a long time and lower the temperature so that we don’t have the risk of a regional war, which is in absolutely no one's interest."