It seems that the Supreme Leader in Iran, who also made this threat directly towards Israel,

and we know that when he does make this threat himself on the record, the Iranians, until now,

at least mean business, he decided that it's going to be a substantial attack.

Having this before the elections is a substantial interference of the Iranians with the U.S. elections.

It's 8.30 a.m. here in New York City on Sunday, November 3rd, just a couple of days before

Election Day in the U.S. It is 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, November 3rd in Israel, as Israelis

closely monitor the upcoming U.S. elections. And I am pleased to welcome back to the podcast, Nadav Ayel,

from Yadiyot Akronot. Nadav, good to see you, in person a few days ago. Now back on our

virtual conversations. Morning, Dan. Nadav and I were speaking together at Brown University early

in the week, which maybe we can touch on later. Nadav, I were speaking together at Brown University early in the week, which maybe we can touch on

later. Nadav, I want to start with speculation within Israel about a possible Iranian attack against Israel

and this debate that seems to be happening within the Israeli security establishment as to

whether or not Iran will strike before or

after the U.S. election. Before we get to the before or after U.S. election, I was somewhat taken

back that how quickly the conversation accelerated to Iran is going to attack. Because I remember in the

days after Israel's last operation, which seems like ages ago, wasn't that long ago, all the

conversation was that Israelis were saying they were hearing out of Iran, was that Iran was

unlikely to attack. So now not only is the conversation about Iran is going to attack, and now

it's just a matter of when and what kind of attack. So before we get into the timing,

can you just explain why all of a sudden we've gone from,

really just a couple weeks ago,

the whole discussion seemed to be that Iran was going to stand down,

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