This is CBS, I Am The World, I'm John Bashler.

Iran, the suspect nuclear weapons program of Iran, the predation trip practice routinely

by the Islamic Republic of Iran, now leads to floating terror bases.

I welcome Malcolm Hone line, conference of presidents, major American Jewish organizations.

What do they look like Malcolm and where are they?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

Well this is one of a number of measures that have been taken and revealed recently about

how much Iran is investing in its military programs, especially in the Gulf challenging

the other Gulf partners so that while they may be warming up relations with Saudi Arabia,

which is really very questionable and the UAE and the Omani visit, the fact is that they're

also building up their military capacity and what they have done is now taking these

large vessels, some from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of tons to outfit them

with all sorts of offensive equipment, including aircraft and missiles.

So they are really forward terror bases far from the Iranian border and gives them reach

they've sailed into the Gulf of Aden and this is part of their maritime terrorism and

they are active in a Persian Gulf in the Arabian Sea.

So it's believed that they want to expand the operations to the Indian Ocean, then the

Red Sea and the Mediterranean.

As we saw with the report, we kept making about their ability to circumnavigate the world

to go to Venezuela and get back.

We see this is another stage of building up their naval capacity as an IRG scene particular

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