Kirby: Israel’s response to Iran’s attack ‘was an incredible success’

What is the assessment of the Bite administration right now of how serious this strike was? Was the Biden administration surprised by the scale of this attack? I mean, I I can’t even imagine. This is just for people out there who don’t know this. An attack from Iran, directly from Iran on Israel of this magnitude has never happened. No, it truly was unprecedented. It’s a good word that you use there. I mean, the size and scale and scope, just not seen this before. We had been watching as closely as we could. Can I tell you that we’ve anticipated every single drone and every single missile? Probably not. But we certainly had a good sense of what Iran was planning to do more critically. The Israelis did as well. And the the response by them, the defense by our Israeli counterparts and of course the United States and and and additional partners also was unprecedented. I mean, this was an incredible success really proving Israel’s military superiority and just as critically their diplomatic superiority that they have friends in the region, they have friends around the world that are willing to help them. So let’s talk about that for one second, because obviously the Iranians. Please correct me if I’m wrong. It appears as though the Iranians were not only attacking Israel, they were violating the airspace of other Arab countries, including Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Is that accurate? Absolutely. There’s no way to do what they did last night without violating international airspace to do it.