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I'm John Batchel.

Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran and the suspect nuclear weapons program.

Iran is the driver for the attacks on Israel this last year plus, the seven fronts.

However, it's the nuclear weapon that is the strategic element that is not yet

present but could be, will be, might be. That question cannot be answered easily. I welcome

Ben and Ben Taliblu, senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, and I begin with

a quote from a recently retired

Brigadier General, Amir Avivi, talking to Newsweek.

This is a man whose combat experience is extremely lengthy

and he understands the existential threat to his state of Israel.

He says, Israel won't let Iran become nuclear and seize this war as a historic opportunity

to deal with the big challenge of Iran becoming a nuclear power.

That's the quote.

Over these last days, I've read and been told that one of the considerations right now is what is to be done with

Iran's Islam suspect nuclear weapons program. Are they accelerating? Are they making a dash?

Does it exist? What about it? What is to be done? Ben, I'm a very good evening to you. I want to

frame this correctly rather than come to a done. Ben, I'm a very good evening to you. I want to frame this correctly

rather than come to a conclusion. Right now, what is it that we understand is left to Iran?

What does that regime represent to its neighbors, to its adversaries, to Europe, to China and Russia.

What does it represent after the Israelis, I'm told, in that last counter strike,

removed all air defenses so that the country is completely defenseless for an Israeli air raid?

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