And the only country they didn't hit yet is probably Azerbaijan and Pakistan and Afghanistan. But if they did that in Turkey, that's going to be a big blowback for them because Turkey was one of the countries actually that was pushing back against like a U.S. operation in on Iran. And even you saw that the calls from the Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, he talked, for instance, with Saudi officials where he was saying that like we need to prevent regional escalation and this kind of talk.
So Turkey was very much against it because, first of all, because they're afraid of refugee flows. And second of all, they're afraid of the Kurds getting empowered in Western Iran. And third of all, they're also afraid of Israeli influence in Iran, because if, for instance, the regime falls in in Iran because of support by Israel and by an operation by joint operation by the U.S. and Israel, then the new government in Iran most likely will have very good relations with Israel.
And actually, Turkey is very much opposed to Israeli influence. You saw that in Syria. You saw that in Gaza.
You also saw that the Israeli were trying to prevent the Turks from being part of the peace force that they were trying to establish in Gaza. And also, that was interesting that there was a piece by – everybody seems to have a soft stack now. I don't know why.
So there was a piece by the former Israeli minister of defense where he was sort of warning that with the big changes coming in the region, that Turkey was going to try to have influence in Iran, which also might be – maybe he's worried that because you have a large Israeli population in – also in large parts, you have big cities like the – not the – and then I will talk about that, which big cities there are, because I'm so tired. But – so there's big cities with a big Israeli population. Actually, a lot of them, they support the Islamic Republic.
