Retired colonel says this shows ‘Iranians clearly sending signal’ to the US

Ferran communicated to Turkey about options. It was considering. It would know turkeys a NATO ally that Turkey might pick up the phone and call Washington and say here what we’re what we’re hearing. Is that deliberate? I think it is, Jim, I, you know, I the way I look at it after I heard that report, it was like, yeah, the Iranians were clearly sending a signal to the US through the Turks. Like you said there Turkey is a NATO ally. And the big thing here is that we have you know so many different different different elements. You know this is this is Turkey right here. Bordering Iran. And the main thing that the Turks do of course is they have an integrated defense system with us and they’ve had a relationship with us as well, even though that relationship has been rocky of late. But the Iranians knew that they were going to talk to the US and they I think clearly wanted to Telegraph this. As I, as I understand it, this defense was multi prong, multi part multiple partners coming from, from several directions. You have Israel here of course you had US assets in the Eastern Mediterranean, US assets down here in the Red Sea. Not sure in the Persian Gulf as well. Yes, they involved there were certainly assets and it’s pretty clear to me that specifically at LUD to air base in Qatar, they would probably have been involved possibly out of Kuwait as well and we believe Jordan fired as well. So that, I mean that gives you a sense of the net of defenses that were able to shoot down these missiles and drones as they were coming from Iran. Absolutely. And they had this is about 1000 miles from here to here. They had that whole area in which to actually see what was going on and actually take a look at. You know the different different types of projectiles here you know you had 170 drones, over 120 ballistic missiles. 30 cruise, in fact. Seventy of those drones, as we’ve reported I were shot down by the US assets, so that really does make a big difference.