This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

With Malcolm Ho online Conference the President's John Bachelor. With Malcolm Hoeline Conference of President's major American Jewish organizations,

and we're very pleased to welcome Jonathan Schanser of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

Jonathan, your morning briefings are extremely, extremely helpful to understand what

we need to know about the conflict not only in Europe but also in the Middle East and in the Eurasian continent right now.

Russia is at war with Ukraine and Russia says it's at war with NATO,

certainly NATO supporting Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, with NATO, certainly NATO supporting Ukraine.

Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine,

there's been the suggestion that Russia is using all of its levers,

diplomacy, state security, spying, translating the criminal gangs into its advantage.

Also, the question of Moscow's relationship with Tehran.

I puzzle, does Russia just represent itself as a buyer of Iranian drones and missiles or is Russia actively involved in the

Iranian aggression in the neighborhood in the region with the Houthis Hezbollah

Hamas? Do we see Russian fingerprints in all of those surrogates? Good evening to you,

Jonathan.

Good evening, John. Yeah, look, we see Russia's fingerprints in all of this. They've been careful up until now to not get directly

involved in Iran's war against Israel and the United States. However, we do see Russia's involvement,

first of all, in protecting the Iranians at the UN,

buying Iranian oil, obviously purchasing weapons such as drones and missiles that they are

deploying.

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