This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchezing with Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs.

We're looking at three countries in particular, and the Trump administration, the People's Republic of China, now the state of Israel.

Gregory, I'm told that the new defense minister, Mr. Katz, has said that Iran's

nuclear weapons program must not stand. The prime minister has indicated in these last hours that if Iran

were to attack again, that would be the end of its economy. There are voices coming back from the Middle East and in the United States that say between now and inauguration day,

Mr. Netanyahu and his cabinet and his generals have a shot at taking out the nuclear weapons program forever,

which we could argue will end the regime because there is

no air defense right now at all, I'm told that raid ended the S-300 program in Iran. Therefore, the

question becomes, why not and will they go? And what does it mean if they go? Israel is now in war with seven fronts

launched by Iran. Going at Tehran theoretically removes that threat. Mr. Trump does not want to

inherit, I'm told, Biden's war. So what is your measure of Bibi Netanyahu?

Does he go or not go before January 20th?

I think where Prime Minister Netanyahu goes in the next couple of months

is to clean up the Hezbollah and Hamas situation.

He may not have to go after the Iranian leadership directly.

And if he does, that could be fraught with risk.

Because firstly, Iran already has nuclear weapons,

and they are deployed in such a way that they would be very difficult to reach.

Yes, you can get the surface-based equipment,

such as the launch vehicles and the like with the ballistic missiles and so on on them.

And you can hit some of those targets.

But the fact is that the Iranians know that if they launch a nuclear attack on Israel,

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