This is CBS on the world.

I'm John Batchel.

I welcome my colleague Ben and Ben Talib,

who's senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

We're going to Tehran, the brain of the octopus, attacking Israel.

At the same time I mention, the monsters of Hamas are attached directly to the

monsters of Tehran. The headline from the Times of Israel, Israel says, Palestinian Islamic Jihad murdered

Odad Lipschitz in captivity. The ID continues for bodies believed to be the Shira Bibas sons and wife,

murdered in captivity. What we're looking at here is Israel accepting hostages,

doled out by Hamas, in the midst of a celebration that Hamas puts on when it does this. This time it was coffins being

returned. I don't stop with Hamas. I go to Tehran and the vouchsafing of this grotesque conduct

by the Ayatoll himself. In these last hours, we have the commander of the IRGC and the Iranian army threatening again because the U.S. conducted exercises, very clear-cut exercises,

of flying B-50s over the Middle East these last days, threatening to retaliate.

Ben, I'm a very good evening to you. We have the Hamasque grotesquery, and we have the threat by Iran.

However, at the same time, you have convincing evidence that Iran is in a charm offensive, so-called,

in order to achieve an end that it can't with threats and with violence. How so? Good evening to you,

Benham. Very good evening to you, John. Always a pleasure to be back with you. Listen, make no

mistake from Trump's election period in November up until inauguration, the Islamic Republic had

been on something of a charm offensive. On the one hand, trying to strengthen its position, trying to get more uranium to be enriched,

trying to get China to buy more sanctioned Iranian oil.

On the other hand, dangling the English language speakers, Zarif Arakchi,

out before major Western media outlets, even having their president,

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