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It's Monday, 16 December. Welcome to the President's Daily Brief. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage, and in the ongoing game of Where's Waldo? This week, we're still somewhere

in the Middle East. All right, let's get briefed. We'll begin today's show with a look at why

the Iranian regime may be in trouble,

as its key ally, Hasbola, struggles to recover from devastating leadership losses,

while the fall of the Assad regime in Syria leaves Tehran's influence in the region significantly diminished.

Later in the show, new satellite images reveal Iran's so-called drone motherships, and apparently,

despite some claims, they're nowhere near the East Coast.

Plus, we'll have an update on the political chaos in South Korea, where the Parliament

has voted to impeach the defiant president following his martial law debacle. But to be fair,

who hasn't had a martial law debacle at some point during their lives? And in today's back of the

brief, we'll have the latest on that destructive wildfire in Malibu, which firefighters are still

struggling to contain. But first, today's PDB spotlight.

Since the October 7th attacks by Hamas on Israel, well, it's been one bad headline after another

for the Iranian regime. The collapse of Assad is just the latest and perhaps most hard-hitting

blow to their ambitions in the region.

For years, Iran's Islamic regime has relied on allies like Assad and proxies like

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