Unprecedented Iran’s slap on Israel’s face that has many firsts

On April 13, at 9.10pm GMT which was already April 14 at 5.10am in Malaysia, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has officially announced extensive strikes on Israel, stating it has launched “tens of missiles and drones against certain targets inside the occupied territories.”
The attack comes in retaliation to numerous crimes committed by Israel, including an airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus earlier this month, the elite force said in a statement.
Sixteen minutes later, Iranian Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani has warned any countries against aiding Israel and allowing it to use their territories for staging any attacks against the country.
“Whichever country that could open its soil or airspace to Israel for a [potential] attack on Iran, will receive our decisive response,” the minister stated.
The actual airstrikes actually began about half an hour earlier when the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) announced that Iran has launched a wave of drones from its territory toward Israel.
While the IDF did not give any figures, anonymous US and Israeli officials told Axios that “dozens” had been launched at once.
Video shared on social media showed a number of Iranian-made Shahed-136 kamikaze drones airborne over Iran. These one-way UAVs will likely take hours to reach Israel, IDF arrogantly said.
But Israel misjudged Iran’s military capability and strategy. Using ballistic missiles with supersonic speeds and drones of varying speeds, these reached Israel not within hours as claimed by the Zionist state but in minutes, wreaking massive damages including two military bases.
On receiving news from Israel that the one way UAVs will take hours to reach Israel, US President Joe Biden took his time to meet with his national security team to discuss Iran’s “airborne attack against Israel”.
Only after hearing reports of the Iranian statement on the attack which was verified by many news agencies worldwide that Biden has cut short his weekend stay at his beach house in Delaware, abruptly returning to Washington to convene a meeting of the National Security Council in the White House Situation Room to assess the ongoing escalation in the Middle East.
It was more than two hours later after Iran has announced the attack that we heard Biden issuing a brief statement:
“I just met with my national security team for an update on Iran’s attacks against Israel. Our commitment to Israel’s security against threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad.”
So we can take it with a pinch of salt both Israeli and US claims that the damages inflicted on Israel were very minimal and that more than half of the Iranian missiles were shot down by them.

In this regard Israel has a pattern of lies and deceit which is legendary judging from its attempt to cover up the casualties and damages that Hamas has inflicted on it in the Gaza war which was even questioned by the Israeli media and hospitals.
And to wit, both Israel and the US have the habit to measure casualties in term of the loss of civilian lives per se, and in this, they are right because it was never the intention of Iran to inflict massive civilian casualties unlike Israel, and to a certain extent the US.
Eyewitnesses account during the early hours of the attack especially coming from Sky News correspondent Mark Stone painted a different picture when he said the Iranian kamikaze drones “are flying low to avoid radar, making them harder to intercept.”
“There is a deep psychological aspect to all this too. People across Israel will not sleep tonight, knowing that drones are already in the air, heading their way,” Stone mentioned.
He further stressed that “the use of cruise missiles – if confirmed – would change the dynamic further still. The direct Iranian attack against Israel is unprecedented,” Stone indicated.
“Even if the drones are intercepted, even if casualty numbers are low or zero, Israelis will feel profoundly vulnerable and the Israeli government will feel compelled to retaliate,” Stone suggested rather sensationally.
The US-based ABC News is more sensational when it said it believes there will be anywhere near 400 to 500 drones and missiles launched from Iraq, Syria, South Lebanon, and Yemen, however, the bulk of these weapons will be fired from Iran.
Perhaps these sensational accounts are meant to goad Israel to retaliate, and then the whole world led by Israel and the US will conveniently put the blame on Iran for escalating the regional war, when it was Israel which escalated it first by going against international law in bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

After killing humanitarian workers of the World Central Kitchen, Israel went on with its terrorist rampage of airstrikes which flattened the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Apr 1, killing seven Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers and injuring some diplomats.
Analysts had viewed this development as a significant escalation of the regional war between Israel and the Axis of Resistance. So Iran’s direct participation for the first time in this regional war is something expected as it is really Israel that is asking for it.
Meanwhile, in his statement after the Iranian strike, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said Iranian measure was smart, well-planned, as Iranian missiles and drones targeted Zionist occupation’s military bases.
This Iranian measure actually began the day before when Iranian commandoes stormed an Israeli-operated container ship in the Persian Gulf and taken control of the vessel.
It is a message to Israel, US and the world that Iran is very serious in conducting its retaliation measures against Israel.
“Peace and stability in the region are essential to our national security, and we will spare no efforts to restore peace and stability.
“In past months, Iran made use of all regional and international avenues to caution international community of the danger of UN Security Council’s inaction.
“Defence measure executed by armed forces is our natural right to defend our country in response to Zionist aggression on our interests,” Raisi added.
Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, Abdolrahim Mousavi warned Americans that if they interfere in support of Zionist entity, all of their bases and interests in the region will be in our line of fire.
“Continued attacks by Zionist entity will this time be met with harsher punishment,” he stressed.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry had summoned ambassadors of Britain, France, and Germany following provocative statements made by their officials in reaction to the Iranian attack.

“In our message to the White House this morning, we made clear that our operations were limited, and meant to punish Zionist entity. Allies of Zionist entity disrupted our diplomatic attempts to call international community to condemn the aggression on our consulate in Damascus,” he said.
The Iranian retaliation has recorded many firsts. ⁠For the first time since 1948, an attack on Israeli soils and its occupied territories by a state actor has occurred.
For the first time too, no Israeli fighter planes are on Gaza skies, which will be seen as a God-send to the Gazan civilians, as it provides them with a very good respite from Israel’s action of crime against humanity by bombarding them to oblivion when they are not combatants of war.
Israel has also for the first time sent a letter to the UN Security Council (UNSC), urging the body to convene an extraordinary meeting to assess the escalation, Israeli envoy to the UN Gilad Erdan has announced.
It wants the Council to condemn the Iranian attack and designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization.
This is the reverse of past situation when more often than not it was the Palestinians and the Arab world that had to write a letter to the UNSC requesting urgent session due to Israel’s transgression.
For the first time too, ballistic missiles at supersonic speeds landed on Israel. And finally for the first time too, Israeli Nevatim Air Base in al-Naqab was successfully targeted.
The Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus on Apr 1 using the most advance F-35 jet fighters supplied by the US was launched from this Airbase.
According to the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, the strike on Israel was “more successful than expected”.
He announces the destruction of two important bases – the Israeli intelligence headquarters in Mount Hermon, and the Nevatim base during the operation.
Hebrew Channel Kan quoting a senior official in the Israeli Ministry of Defence said: “The Iranian attack was one of the most complex attacks faced by the air defence system in the world. Iran has conducted an attack at a higher level than we expected.”

Israeli media reported that the cost of one night for the air defence system in countering the Iranian attack exceeds US$1.3 billion.
It also reported on a large number of settlers crowding at Ben Gurion Airport to travel out of the country – herein lies the difference between a landowner and a land occupier.
Land occupier are settlers which will run speedily ala Speedy Gonzalez at the first sign of problem while landowners like the Palestinians in Gaza will hold on to their land to their deaths at any sign of danger.
Earlier, Israeli media Yedioth Ahronoth stated that even without retaliation, Iran is winning the psychological war against Israel.
Already before the Iranian strike, Israel’s fear of an Iranian response has been exponentially growing, as panic and fear loomed over Israel, forcing it to shut down and evacuate 28 of its legations worldwide.
Yedioth Ahronoth’s military affairs analyst, Yossi Yehoshua, revealed the prevalence of an atmosphere of panic as Israelis expressed confusion as to whether they should storm food networks or ATMs first.
Settlers have also spiked generator purchases amid concerns of lengthy power outages as the battles drag on and escalate.
There was heightened calls for the opening of shelters, saying Iran would not dismiss Israel’s attack on its consulate.
The Israeli settlers’ fear stems from profound distrust in Israel’s Intelligence, specifically after the military failed to intercept the Palestinian Resistance’s operation on October 7, dubbing it the worst crisis in the Israeli occupation forces’ history.
Amid the commotion, the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate’s (Aman) Research Division, Brigadier General Amit Saar, has formally handed in his resignation letter, citing personal reasons, Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom reported on April 4.
Also fearing retaliation, the Israeli military command has resorted to rare actions, which include disrupting the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) across occupied territories, hoping to weaken “enemy capabilities”.
Several Israeli media outlets reported on the effects of disruptions in what is more commonly known as GPS, which have caused devices in occupied Palestine to shift their geolocations to Lebanon’s capital, Beirut so that targets of Iranian attacks will end up in Beirut.
Makam News said the disruption has also affected central occupied cities including Tel Aviv’s Gush Dan area.

By disrupting geo-positioning systems, the Israeli military hopes to hinder the effectiveness of guided munitions and unmanned vehicles such as ballistic missiles and drones.
The Israeli military has also resorted to electronic jamming since the beginning of confrontations in northern occupied territories.
This intense fear has also seen the activation of electronic warfare systems’ in “Arraba”, 22 km away from the Israeli line of withdrawal from Lebanon, and the southernmost occupation city of Eilat on the Red Sea.
Israel’s military command has earlier cancelled the vacations of every soldier and officer enlisted in combat roles and ordered heightened readiness in the north and Eilat.
According to Israeli Channel 13, the occupation forces have also announced that it would recruit reservists from the Air Force to bolster air defence system.
But Israeli air defence has been proven to be vulnerable when on the same day of the Damascus attack, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq had earlier delivered a huge blow to Israeli air defence systems by striking the Israeli Naval Base in Eilat with a one-way attack drone using unmanned vehicle that is guided via GNSS devices, which were able to bypass both jamming and detection.
But all these rare moves failed to prevent the massive damages Israel has incurred from the Iranian airstrikes including the massive failure of its famed Iron Dome to down the missiles and drones.
Meanwhile CNN quoting an Israeli official said Israel will respond to the Iranian attack, but the scope of this response has not been determined yet.
The spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said “Iran has started a war against Israel, but we will end it according to our assessment”.
But this is just pure bravado which tries to hide the fact that in the early hours of the Iranian strike, in a to-and-fro telephone conversation between Biden and Netanyahu, and between US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, the US managed to wring out from the Israeli on a no-no retaliation against Iran, and that Israel must inform the US first of any actions against Iran.

What is more important is that for the first time Biden is doing the right thing in telling Netanyahu that the US will not participate in Israel’s offensive operations against Iran, and opposes any Israeli counterattack against Iran.
Now, the important question to be asked is why is Israel in the first place so reckless in bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus when it knows this will naturally result in an Iranian retaliation?
The answer lies in the fact that Israel knows it is losing the attrition war in Gaza both economically and militarily, and hence it sees continuous US weapons and ammunition support as very crucial for it to continue sustaining the war.
This is not just the assessment of the Axis of Resistance but also many Israeli analysts including in the media, former senior intelligence and military officers, and even former and current politicians.
However despite US assurances that it will continue to support Israel with weapons and ammunitions with no redlines, the Israelis, perhaps seeing how Ukraine was treated, has a “phobia” that Israel will soon be given the same treatment with regards to weapons and ammunitions.
So the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus was an Israeli entrapment of Iran in the sense that it is meant to goad Iran to retaliate so that the US will enter the war by defending Israel against Iranian attack.

But Iran is very smart enough to know of this entrapment.
On the same day of the Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus on April 1, Iran summoned the Swiss Ambassador to Iran who also represents US interest in Tehran, as there is no diplomatic relations between the two countries, to send a very important message to the US.
And that message was to explain to the US that Iran has the right to respond to the terrorist act of Israel and wanted the US not to interfere in its reprisal of the Israeli attack.
Mohammad Jamshidi, an official in the Iranian Presidency Office who’s also a political affairs assistant to President Raisi, had then posted on X that Tehran has warned the US against getting dragged into a trap set by Netanyahu that would “hurt” Washington.
In the context of an expected retaliatory response, Tehran also sent a series of written messages to the US via third parties warning the US to “stay away so you won’t get hurt. In response, US asked Iran not to target American facilities”.
The reason for the US’ response is very easy to understand in the context of its unwavering support of Israeli war crimes in the region as Washington will definitely find its assets in the region among possible targets.
The US has more than 10,000 forces deployed across the Middle East – in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, north-eastern Syria and UAE.
In the run-up to the Gaza war, it also deployed two aircraft carrier groups in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea with more than 7,000 additional military personnel.
Although they increased force protection, but they also become a liability as moving targets. The most vulnerable are the 900 American forces deployed in Syria and another 2,500 in Iraq.
Their small and scattered posts have been hit more than dozens of times by the Axis of Resistance since the Gaza war began.
Another 350 US troops have been based at Tower 22, a Jordanian post on the border with Iraq and Syria, which saw the deaths of three US soldiers in one of these sporadic hits in January.
The US also has hundreds of diplomats in the Middle East, although none in Iran – providing the nexus of threats against US personnel, interests and allies.

Then there is also the report that the US being concerned about the escalation getting worse had offered help to Iran – through these back channel communications – to have a direct negotiation with Tel Aviv “to de-escalate the conflict if Iran desists from retaliating for the Israeli attacks”.
Washington will guarantee to persuade Tel Aviv to stop its military operations in Syria and Lebanon on the condition that Iran commits not to retaliate against Israel.
Iran Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei was reported to have reviewed this offer but is not expected to accept it if it does not include guarantees for a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza and to stop all Israeli and US attacks on Iranian targets or those belonging to Iran’s allies in the Axis of Resistance.
The Iranians had also previously received a verbal Israeli proposal via a Gulf state where Tel Aviv claimed it was ready to stop operations against Iranian targets in Syria and Lebanon in exchange for Tehran abandoning retaliation.
But Iran could see through these gimmicks that the US is also playing a game of psychological war with this offer. This is because Netanyahu has already rejected a US proposal to pledge to stop attacks in Syria.
Moreover, the US, Britain and France on April 3 opposed a Russian-drafted UN Security Council statement that would have condemned the attack on Iranian consulate in Syria.
Diplomats said the US, backed by France and Britain, told council colleagues that many of the facts of what happened in Damascus remained unclear.
“This serves as a clear illustration of the double standards employed by the Western ‘troika’ and their actual, rather than declarative, approach to legality and order in the international context,” Russia’s deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said in a post on X.
The Security Council has issued statements in the past condemning attacks on diplomatic premises.
Such is the hypocrisy of the US and its western allies that they refused not only to condemn Israel for its brazen attack on Iranian consulate but also put obstacle in the UNSC to issue a condemnation.

They are only prepared to condemn Israel when its acts of terrorism resulted in the deaths of their citizens like what happened in the World Central Kitchen incident, and to hell with the lives of the citizens of Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and Palestine.
Many analysts including Israeli analysts in the media, military and intelligence feel that Israel should just cut its losses via focussing on diplomacy by stopping the genocide of Palestinian civilians, ensuring all Israeli captives are freed, and accepting a ceasefire with Hamas to fight another day.
But instead of doing all these, Israel is bent on continuing the massacres of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank ad infinitum, and escalating the war, where all these do not serve Israel’s interest, especially in the context of its loss in international support and global public opinion.
However, all these serve the interest of one man – Netanyahu – because he has to remain in power and win the war at all cost, otherwise he would be in prison for the massive corruption charges that he faces even before the war.
Notice how quick Netanyahu is in fleeing to a luxurious mansion seeking refuge in the fortified bunker there a week before the Iranian strike.
He must have been terrified of an Iranian retaliation on his life by fleeing to that luxurious mansion on Caspi Street in occupied al-Quds reportedly owned by American billionaire Simon Falic, a close friend of his.
But this does not stop tens of thousands of Israelis to take part in protests against the government amid the Iranian attack, with some demonstrators gathering outside the luxurious mansion.
“You are the head [of government], you’re responsible,” Israeli settlers screamed outside the current residence of Netanyahu as Israeli occupation officers attempted to block them.
Moreover, settlers protesting in Haifa are chanting: “A government without skills, you should quit now.”
Knowing that Israel cannot win if it goes to war with Iran without US support, it continues to provoke Iran indirectly by killing several Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp officers in Syria and Lebanon.
When this failed to provoke Iran, it then went with the brazen attack on an Iranian consulate in Damascus which is tantamount to attacking Iran directly.
This is to goad the US to participate directly in the war against Iran should the latter retaliate.
In this regard Israel is taking a calculated risk of accelerating its defeat because both the US and Israel know via their war games conducted as recently as last year just before Oct 7, that in a war with Iran, Israel will lose without the participation of the US.
The IRGC leadership on its part believes Washington will not enter a war with Iran even if it retaliates against Israel.
It also considers an adequately harsh strike against Israel will compel it to accept a ceasefire in Gaza and abandon any plans to invade Lebanon or escalate its bombing in Syria.

A few days ago I posted the following on my LinkIn account.
Oh boy, how I received a long and scathing response from someone (neither a connection nor follower) who seemed to take advantage of my own admission that “I know it is politically incorrect to say this” to whack me upside down.
But I must say although the response is scathing I appreciate the fact there were no expletives directed against me.
I’m also thankful to him for introducing a new vocabulary which I have come across in the past but have forgotten its meaning – asinine.
I didn’t respond to the scathing comment because of my belief that the remark was made in anger and that had I responded with the same tone, it will just worsen matter in the social media – a place where it is not good to indulge in polemics.
I would rather wait for a cooling period just like in an election in most countries where the day before voting you can’t do hustings or make statements denigrating your opponents.
Moreover if I have to respond, I would prefer to do so in a platform where I’m in control, like in this newsletter, Let’s Talk! without fear or favour.
So why is he angry with me? Because I kept on talking about the Gaza war in my LinkIn account since the beginning of Oct 7.
He must surely have become so sick about it and want to shut me out. Why must it be “arrogant, absurd and asinine thing to post about the Gaza war” even if I didn’t post on other genocidal wars?

The genocidal war in Gaza has also Palestinian Christians as its victims – killed or displaced by Israel’s indiscriminate bombings including churches and Christian-owned hospitals being bombed too. (see Christ under the rubble)
And this genocidal war in Gaza has its roots in the Nakbah (Catastrophe) of 1948 where the Great Powers especially the Anglo-Saxon governments of the US and Britain, being profoundly guilty of their centuries-long pogroms against the Jews in Europe, suddenly realised what a horrible thing they had done to the Jews.
Perhaps the sense of deep remorse (or perhaps the sense of fear of God) for what these Christian leaders of the Great Powers and their ancestors had inflicted on the Jews made them felt the need to have some restitution for the Jews.
And so they worked hand-in-gloves with the Zionists to establish the secular state of Israel in 1948 by turning a deaf ear and a blind eye to the genocide of the Palestinians living there, even before 1948.
Which means this was the first genocidal war in the post-World War II (WWII) history of the world before other genocidal wars ever took place, which in turn means the genocide is still on-going since more than 70 years ago.
Has he forgotten the Balfour Declaration in 1917 where the Christian colonial leaders of Britain, who were about to accept an armistice offered by Germany in 1916 during WWI, decided to continue the war with many more killed, after being baited by the Zionists not to accept the armistice in return for a piece of real estate called Palestine to be given to the Zionists for its promised assistance in ensuring the sleeping giant that was the US to enter WWI on the side of the Allies? (See A Jewish Defector Warns America)
Has he forgotten too how the “intelligent and smart” Christian Anglo-Saxon colonial leaders were duped and outwitted by the Zionist’s fairy tale of “a land without a people for a people without a land” which has made these Christian colonial leaders complicit in the Nakbah’s genocide?
And we have also seen how the successors of these Christian Anglo-Saxon colonial leaders in the post war period from Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford right up to the Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Trump and Biden, together with their counterparts in the UK, have continued their pro-Zionist policies, even though the US and UK are supposedly more civilised, non-colonialist and more democratic after seeing the destruction to the world that they have wrought in WW2.

It is their complicity with the Zionists that is the cause of why this genocide has lasted for more than 70 years, and judging by the present reluctance of the Anglo-Saxon governments and their western allies to implement a permanent ceasefire in the Gaza war and their refusal to stop supplying arms and weapons to Israel, this genocide will be an on-going affair for some more times. (See UK deputy PM indulging in a “tongue twister”)
In light of clear evidences that can be seen daily on the social and mainstream media of Israel’s violation of international humanitarian laws and war crimes in its conduct of the Gaza war plus its escalation of the war into a regional war, the Anglo-Saxon governments and their western allies are still adamant that their good, ole buddy i.e. Israel has not committed any war crimes or crimes against humanity at all. (see Israel Massacres).
And if he understands the nature of geopolitics in the unipolar world order, the genocidal wars in Africa and the Caucasus which he mentioned were all the result of global power play at regime change by the US and its western allies in order to remain the only hegemon there via their military-industrial complex supplying weapons of mass destruction to both sides in the war.
Allah says in the Quran: “And guard yourselves against a chastisement which cannot fall exclusively on those of you who are wrong-doers, and know that Allah is severe in punishment.” [Al-Anfal (The Spoils of War), 8: 25].
Let that sink in for a moment .
This is the concept of collective punishment in Islam where the do-gooders remain silent in the face of oppression, wickedness, evil and mischief blossoming around them.
At the end of the day we all know of the existence of many (not all) evangelical Christians in the West that are either staunch supporters of Zionism or are Christian Zionists themselves, the most notorious being Biden himself. (see ‘I am a Zionist’: How Joe Biden’s lifelong bond with Israel shapes war policy)
This critic of mine clearly represents the voices of sour grapes that is so full of anger at seeing the crumbling of the once mighty world public opinion that is favourable to the Zionist propaganda (hasbara)

And they are working very hard to re-establish its mighty position again.
As I once said no one can unravel the very powerful world public opinion via the global web of entanglements created by political Zionism for more than 70 years.
Since all these were created by political Zionism, it takes political Zionism itself to break it asunder! (see Political Zionism ironically helps shift public opinion in favour of Palestinians).
This is achieved when Israel explicitly and shamelessly commits genocide on a huge scale in Gaza that is seen live by billions of people on Earth via the mass media, including the mainstream and social media that the Zionists themselves control.
When the billions of people in the world also see through the mass media the efforts at diplomacy by Russia, Brazil and China along with the Arab and Muslim world to stop the Gaza genocide, the visual contrast is so sharp and profound!

That creates a critical mass of anger, deep resentment and hatred at what the Zionist regime has inflicted on the Palestinian civilians all these decades that “pandemonium” breaks loose, and a shift in world public opinion for the Palestinians has occurred.
This is reflected in the continuous weekly protests at every weekend in the capitals of many countries in the world especially in the US and Europe, drawing the participation of hundreds of thousands of protesters, including Jews, Europeans and Americans, who are sick of Zionism.
The global boycott of Israeli products and the products of companies in the Zionist’s web of entanglements is so effective this time around that it has contributed significantly to the near collapse of the Israeli economy (see In new win for BDS, Samsung Next pulls out of Israeli tech industry).
Unlike my critic, the whole world no longer sees the Gaza war as a Muslim, Arab or Palestinian issue but a humanitarian one that affects the very being and essence of humanity.
Lest anyone ever think that I am anti-American or anti-British or anti Anglo Saxons, let me be clear on this: There are so many good souls in the US, UK and Europe that are against the genocide of the Palestinians.
It is the governments of the US, UK and EU, and their political elites that are rotten to the core, and not the people of the US, UK and EU as a whole.
So let’s not allow these voices to break our spirit in continuing to speak out against the genocide of the Palestinians and we must continue to stand tall and united with the oppressed people of Gaza.

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Regards,

Jamari Mohtar

Editor, Let’s Talk!

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