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The threat from Iran in response to the Damascus targeted killing of the

IRGC Zahidi. That is dominating the news in Jerusalem. The threat from

Iran is we are preparing strikes on Israeli embassies.

The details here are critical but right now we're going to move to the larger

story of the war between Iran and Israel underway

using the surrogates of Hamas Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Khaty Hezbollah of Iraq, and more bad players on the West Bank

than I can recount. I welcome Mary Kistle at the Executive Vice President of

Stevens Incorporated, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and before that at the Wall Street Journal editorial page, the Strike-Con a building in Damascus significant in that the casualties turn out to be the

commander of Lebanon and Syria for the I RGC a man named Ahidi, his deputy and several of its staff.

The war between Tehran and Jerusalem is now out in front.

Significant from our point of view, Mary,

is that the Biden administration has been

reluctant to talk about this.

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