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This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batson. Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host. He's a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

He keeps the Long War Journal where you can see daily the reporting by our guest, David Diyud of the FD, on the strike on Iran and then the battlefront surrounding Israel in the war beginning in 2023.

Right now we have news from Tehran that is part of the thinking in Washington, in Tehran, in Jerusalem,

and in the councils of NATO gathering in the Netherlands.

In Tehran, reads the headline, IDF strikes IRGC sites,

Gate of Evan Prison.

Strike apparently intended to allow prisoners to escape, says the Times of Israel.

A day after Trump hinted at regime change for Iran,

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