This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

My colleague and co-host, Malcolm Honeline, Conference of Presidents,

Major American Jewish Organizations, Iran.

We're very pleased to welcome Ray Takaye,

Hasib J. Sabag, Senior Fellow, for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ray, a very good evening to you.

We have headlines that can be alarming, but I'm going to read one that seems cautionary.

Iran warns airlines to avoid its airspace for three hours on Thursday, that would be right now,

over military drills according to Egypt's

civilization ministry. This is a way of introducing that we are in a pregnant

pause between the threats by the Iatollah at a

grave site and the threats by Nasrala of Hezbollah by a grave site and the facts of the 10-11 months of warfare directed

against Israel in the so-called ring of fire. How do you measure the Iranian and

Hezbollah threats?

Was that for a public dispute, a domestic audience or was that worldwide to say they're

escalating? Good evening to you, right?

Thank you. Thank you for having me. Well, whatever it is it is said

domestically about this issue obviously has an international audience because the

global media networks will cover it.

And the Iranian officials up and down,

and not just the leader, the Supreme Leader and Nostrala,

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