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is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor. North of Israel, the War of the North,

Isbella, the deaths in a Drew's town on the border of Syria and Lebanon

has led to a crisis atmosphere in Jerusalem, in Washington and in Beirut and in Tehran. I welcome Jonathan Shenzer, the

Vice President of the Foundation for Defense of democracies, who has a morning

opportunity to take us to the news from the Middle East

and took advantage of Elliot Abrams, the Honorable Elliot Abrams of the Council

on Foreign Relations and the Bush administration, the Reagan

administration and the Trump administration on the Middle East within these last hours and I

learned a great deal from Elliot Abrams as exchanged with Jonathan.

I want to begin there, although I recommend the original.

It's on the FTD site right now.

Jonathan, I was making notes as hurriedly as I can, and Elliot Abrams reminded me that the story here is not Hezbollah, is not

Hamas, is not the Houthis, is the Islamic Republic of Iran and when the United States remembers that and acts upon it

Iran backs down. Is that a fair summary of what you learn from Mr. Abrams?

Good evening to you, Donald.

Good evening, absolutely. That was Elliot Abrams message and I agree with it fully.

You know, there was a moment where the Iranians were testing the Reagan administration and the Reagan administration responded by sinking more than half of the Iranian Navy and what was known as Operation Prangmatis and that ended the crisis back then in the early 1980s.

We have seen, for example, just during the Trump administration

responded by killing Iran's top general,

Kasum-Sulami of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Kutz Force and that was the moment that Iran stood down yet again. What I

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