This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Cliff May, the founder and president of the

Foundation for Defense of Democracies, about what is to be done with Iran, the threats to the region,

the threats to build a bomb, the threats to destroy Israel, what is to be done? Cliff has a

straightforward answer, the U.S. and or Israel and Israel and or the U.S.

Here's Cliff to describe the end of the threat to the whole of the world by the regime in Tehran.

More of this tonight.

I think it will because the economy of Iran is very bad, despite the fact that there's still selling plenty of oil at somewhat lower prices to places like China and India.

So I think maximum pressure will be a big help.

I think it would be a much bigger help if President Trump were to say, okay, presidents before me have always said that

we cannot accept this regime, which is a jihadi regime, death to America, death to Israel.

We cannot accept they're having nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them.

So we're going to get rid of those facilities, which the U.S. could do in about 24 hours.

If he doesn't want to do it himself, the Israelis can do it.

It's a little bit tougher for them.

It will take longer.

With a little American help, the Israelis can do it.

And that would mean that the regime in Tehran no longer has the money to support terrorism and no longer has

the possibility of a nuclear threat against America, against Israel, or against anyone else.

That would be very beneficial. In fact, most of the conflicts, not all, but most of the

conflicts in the Middle East have their root cause in Tehran.