I'm John Besser. This is CBSi in the world and with my colleague Benham

Ben-Taleblo, a senior fellow for the Foundation for the

Iatollah for the defense of democracy, and we're looking at the Iranian threats and their surrogates.

Iran itself, the Ayatollahs and his sir and his attendance

threatening former President Trump, the standing threat to John Bolton, to

General Mackenzie, to Mike Pompeo, former members of the Trump administration who are pointed to when it comes to the end of

Nus of Sulemani, the terror boss of Iran once upon a time. We come now to a puzzle and it's not to be solved,

it's just to be dealt with. This is an article from the Washington, from the Wall Street Journal in these last days.

Not long after an Iranian missile barrage hit Israel on April 13th, President Biden spoke to

Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone.

The Israeli Prime Minister was keen to strike back forcefully against the Islamic Republic.

Mr Biden said, let me be crystal clear.

If you launch a big attack on Iran you're on your own I

pause there for your interpretation Benham what is it that the

Biden administration sees in Iran that it wants to either preserve or maintain

a diplomatic conversation with if that's what this is about?

Why?

There's two things on the table here, John, and it's a great question.

One is the nuclear issue and one is the general hangover and drama of U.S. foreign policy and military deployments in the Middle East

over the past two decades.

The nuclear issue of the Biden administration's philosophy is quite clear.

It believes that pressure drives the program. It's been looking to use everything from

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