Ex-NATO commander: Iran made prudent choices after strikes

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00:00I mean, even yesterday, there were fears of escalation, escalation towards a global conflict.

00:07And yet today, I mean, the world seems, you know, a very different place.

00:12I mean, a lot has happened in the last 24 hours.

00:14But would you say the fears of escalation towards a much broader conflict have now subsided, at least to some extent?

00:22I do. I do believe they have subsided.

00:24I think that Iran has made some prudent choices on how they responded and what they're doing.

00:31Well, and let's just ask ourselves why.

00:35Israel has established air superiority over Iran and was flying without hindrance and attacking systematically the military of Iran.

00:47It was also, of course, attacking the nuclear forces, but it was beginning to take apart Iran's ability to fight.

00:55And Iran has been able to do nothing about it.

00:58The Russian equipment in there was destroyed or thwarted.

01:02And Israel has won air superiority over the enemy's ground spaces and was defeating him in detail.

01:10I think that Iran made a prudent choice to decide to stop before they lost so much more of their military capability.