I'm John Batchel with Ben and Ben Talibu, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

senior fellow, watching the Islamic Republic of Iran, the rage of the war launched against Israel

has momentarily ebbed because of the defeat, the very sizable defeat of Hamas,

the weakening of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and certainly the

smashing of the Assad regime in some fashion in Syria. All of these events are either

coordinated or coincidental, but in any event, Tehran is the loser in all three instances.

So what's holding it up at $801,000 to the dollar and the geopolitical defeat of its battlefronts?

Bannam, the only answer I can come up with is that the leadership is delusional, but it's also

wrapped around a transitionary period, I believe. The reporting is that the ancient

Homeni, who has been ill for years, permanent illness, is leaving us or making plans to leave us.

And his son, Muchtabai, is seen as the heir apparent. What is the vision that Much

Dubai has for the Islamic Republic? Is it the bomb, or is there something else? Well, we still don't

know officially who would succeed Hamiday. I have my bets on if there is no regime change and

with the X factor of that system,

which is the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, should those things prove to be the same and hold out,

then there may come a time in the Middle East where we may miss the hesitancy or the readability

of a leader like Ali Khanmane because his son is believed to be anything

but that. I mean, if you look at the way the regime has engaged in this incremental nuclear

escalation over the past few decades, it's been as much gas as there has been breaks. It's more

cognizance of Western Red Lines, and when they have crossed them, they paid a pretty significant

price, be it more so from the Israelis than the Americans,

but nonetheless that lesson learning is there.

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