This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Ben and Mentalebleau at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's.

My Eyes on Iran, which means Hezbollah. We begin there with the headlines from theater.

IDF Chief says, Ground Op versus Hezbollah being prepared. Big reaction to Tel Aviv

rocket coming. Times of Israel says, too wounded in northern Kibbut's rocket impact as IDF warrants a possible ground invasion. In first his blah fires missile at Tel Aviv area no injuries as IDF intercepts it.

You can see the skies of Tel Aviv, a streaking sign, say, a high performance aircraft way in the atmosphere.

This time it's a ballistic missile headed to Tel Aviv, it's intercepted,

but... Benham a very good evening to you. I begin with Hezbollah

because the air war over these last days has been effective in running up the

totals of destroyed rocket launchers, I'm told, rocket

launchers as well as rockets, and those rooms in southern Lebanon, Bekah that have rockets in them instead of people.

The living room, the dining room, the rocket room.

Also, the decapsrikes in Beirut and elsewhere have been very effective at this point

what is your measure of Hezbollah is it back on its heels that's a metaphor for reeling or is it in an operational place

where it expected this kind of onslaught and it's readying its punchback. Good evening to you.

Very good evening to you.

Very good evening to you, John. Great to be back with you.

I think it's quite clear Hezbollah is shaken, as is their patron in Tehran.

The difference is Hezbollah is taking the blows and the Islamic

Republic, formally at least, isn't, which leads to this larger sense of victory that the

Islamic Republic feels it still has, not just in terms of the battlefield

but more importantly in terms of the politics of the situation particularly as we get to

the one year anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks which that regime backed.

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