Israel’s drone attack on Iran this morning was smaller than many expected.

But the message was clear – Israel can strike at the heart of Iran, at the sites of its nuclear ambitions, and it will.

‘There had to be some kind of Israeli reaction’ to the wave of 300 drones and missiles Iran fired on April 13, according to Alex Vatanka, an expert on security affairs in the Middle East.

‘Israel was under attack, probably for the first time since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, from another state’, the director of the Middle East Institute’s Iran Program…