Ravi Agrawal on Iran’s Missile Attack: ‘The Question Is, if Israel Responds, What Happens Next?’

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AGRAWAL: "The fear is real, in part because they realize the escalation of last night is significant. I mean, this was the first direct attack from Iranian soil on Israel, and that has real consequences at this moment and Israel at this moment is weighing exactly how it wants to respond at the time of its choosing, but with an intensity of its choosing as well. And as everyone is asking it to take a breath, take the win as it were, I think Iranian leaders are going to be trying to take their win, as well, in as much as they are able to sell this as a domestic victory. I mean, they are going to try to spin this any which way they can in that they were able to own the skies for a night. You can see those images on the screen of their missiles and their drones heading towards Israel in this first attack of its sort, and they are going to hope that those scenes are seen at home. There were celebrations in parts of Iran of people celebrating that attack and celebrating sort of the avengement, as it were, from the Iranian point of view of the killing of one of its top generals in Damascus. The question, though, is if Israel responds, what happens next? No one really has control over that."