Retired Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt predicted that Iran will not retaliate from Iranian soil after an airstrike by Israel on Friday.

I don’t think [Iran] retaliates from Iranian soil,” he said Friday’s on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “I think Hezbollah and the Houthis will light up pretty significantly and then we’ll see some activity out of Iraq and Syria.

“Iran has had a very bad week when you think about their big strike. It was all defended, but what I find so astonishing was how quickly a five-country coalition came together and put air assets up, synchronized those assets, and defeated everything Iran threw at them. That has to really freak out Iran’s military and the Russian and Chinese militaries.”

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