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U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinkingin told counterparts from G7 countries within these last 24 hours

that Washington believes an Iranian attack on Israel could begin within the next 24 to 48 hours. This was a report in

Axios that is now confirmed in Israel. I welcome Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's

He keeps the Long War Journal as my colleague and co-host and we're very

pleased to welcome one of Bill's colleagues at the FTD, David Dayood, who is our tracker on the Iranian threat via his

Bala, but now the Iranian threat is direct. It has not been except for that

unhappy and still being analyzed incident in the middle of April.

When Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel, Israel shot almost everything down and since then Iran has stayed back but you will all

recall within these last days Israel decapitated Hamas,

leader named Hania, in his Dacha in Tehran.

At the same time, Israel launched a strike against a commander of his

Bala in Beirut, a man who's linked to the 1983 bombing of the marine barracks in Beirut and both Nasrala of Hezbollah and

the Ayatollah of Iran swore revenge.

I believe Nasrallah said Israel will weep and the Iatollah said he vowed revenge

David a very good evening to you the background takes us to where we are right now

The blink in, is that confirmed or is that

satisfactory to Israeli authorities? Good evening to you David.

Good evening to you as well, John. It seems like from Channel 12 news, Israeli Channel 12 news

reporting this morning that Israel has confirmed the intelligence or the information in Lincoln's statements.

It seemed like from the outset, Iran wanted to have a symbolic spin to its revenge attack.

There were reports that came out last week

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