It's Wednesday, the 18th of March. Welcome to the P.D.B. Afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up,

new reporting reveals Iran's security forces are now on the run as Israeli strikes push regime

enforcers out of their headquarters and into hiding. Later in the show, Russia is now backing Iran

more directly, with new reporting that Moscow is providing satellite imagery

and upgraded drone technology to target U.S. and Allied forces. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

I want to start with some very solid new reporting from the Wall Street Journal that's giving

us an inside look at what's happening inside Iran. And what we're starting to see are

signs that the regime's internal security apparatus is under increasing pressure. Iran's security

forces aren't operating out of established headquarters and known facilities anymore. They're not

coordinating from command centers or fortified compounds. According to reports, some are now sleeping in

their cars, hiding under highway overpasses and even setting up tents and wooded areas outside Tehran,

just trying to stay alive. Now, from the outset, the U.S. focused on degrading Iran's military

capabilities. Its missile launchers, its air defenses, its industrial base, but Israel took

on a different mission, going after the regime's internal enforcement arms. That would be the besieged

militia, internal police units, and elements of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, the IRGC, responsible for

keeping control inside the country. In other words, while the U.S. focused on Iran's

military, Israel was striking at the security elements, responsible for suppressing protests and

maintaining internal order. The units mostly responsible for the recent murder of thousands of Iranians

during the popular uprising earlier this year. And now that campaign appears to have evolved.

According to the journal, Israel has dropped roughly 10,000 munitions across thousands of targets,

including more than 2,000 tied specifically to Iran's internal security forces. It started

with large fixed targets, headquarters, command posts, staging areas, then Israeli intelligence

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