John Donison

They have high-tech surveillance.

But what struck me about this assassination was that

You know, the Iranians had led us to believe that the Supreme Leader had been taken out of Tehran, he was in hiding.

But it actually wasn't that hard to find him because he was in his office, he was in his compound.

That's where he was killed in that initial wave of strikes.

But you're right, they took out dozens of other senior Iranian leaders.

They seem to know exactly their movements, where they're going, where they are.

And the truth is that...

The Israelis, backed by the United States, are just vastly superior to the Iranians in terms of military capabilities, but also in terms of intelligence.

Well, I think, look, not just here in Israel, but across the Middle East, people are weary of war.

We've just come out of two years of war in Gaza, a conflict that's not really gone away.

We've had the war between Hezbollah in Lebanon and Israel that was the year before last.

So...

People are tired of it, but I do think, speaking to people here in Tel Aviv on the ground, you know, they kind of accept what Prime Minister Netanyahu says on this.

They might disagree with him on lots of other things, but they do accept, I think, that for Israel, Iran poses an existential threat.

threat and broadly I think people are behind the government on this one now if this goes on for some time and we end up with more casualties in Israel if we don't see the fall of the regime in Iran opinion might change but at the moment I think people are weary of this

but they probably back it.

But it is going to have an impact.

You know, schools are going to be closed this week.

It's going to have an impact on the economy.