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I'm John Batshu with my colleague Bill Rajio, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy,

and we're joined by David D'Ude to comment not only on

the Iranian war starting in these last hours, but whether Iran has turned on its proxies,

its surrogates, Hamas, Isbalah, other bad actors in the region who have a conversation with Iran

now and again, such as al-Qaeda. David, is there any reason to believe at

this point that Hamas is under orders not to negotiate in any fashion, that Hisbalah is under

orders in some fashion to cause disruption in the north, and that those incidents of the rocket fire

out of Syria last week, one of which was associated with Iran, is turned on.

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