I'm John Batchew with my colleague Benham-Bental-Lubu, the Foundation for the Defense of democracies.

We begin with Hezbollah, but the brain of the octopus is in Tehran, the Hyattol and the IRGC,

this headline. Sources. high atoll in the IRGC. This headline, sources times of Israel, Iran brokering Russia

huthy talks on arming group with anti-ship missiles. Russian anti-ship missiles in the hands of the

huthies to target the Red Sea traffic that's left. Now this is more of

Iran turning on and turning off threats and rockets in the, what, five, six fronts that it's developed

now.

To your measure, is Iran getting the war they wanted are they acting surprised.

Well Iran is getting the partnerships that wanted.

One of the dividends of the war for them is that the more it continues

add the more these

proxies are reliant on their patron one of the successes of the islamic republics

acts of resistance model is that it actually is very responsive

to local drivers or dampeners of escalation as well as to external stimuli.

But the Islamic Republic has invested long on the military capabilities

of the Houthis. They are the only ones with medium-range ballistic missiles. They are

the only ones with anti-ship ballistic missiles. The reporting now coming through Reuters and

earlier Wall Street Journal about potential Russian anti-ship cruise missiles

particularly supersonic ones like the Yachant who has an export name. I think the Onix, don't

quote me on that, I forgot the export name that both these two different

outlets had talked about. This would be a game changer in terms of the maritime threats

that the Houthis already posed to the region and the Islamic Republic's ability

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