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This is John Batchez, speaking with colleague David Diyud of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

While Israel continues the very careful pulling apart of the Iranian ability to suspect nuclear

weapons program to go forward, looking back at the war around Israel, Hezbollah, once upon a time,

well-armed and massive. But now, how is Hezbollah responding to the pounding that Iran has taken? After all, you will recall, Iran is the brain of the octopus. Hezbollah does its bidding. What is it doing in either supportive or non-support of Iranian losses? Here's David Dewe to describe what we know know watching Hezbollah. More of this tonight.

Prior to the war, so I don't know if that's necessarily a change there. It serves Iran for Hamas to

continue its course. When it comes to Hezbollah, we haven't seen a single whisper directed from

Hezbollah towards Israel. And I think that was to be expected. Again,

it's part of the escalatory ladder that I was talking about. I don't think, you know,

Hezbo has been battered by the recent war with Israel. Its situation in Lebanon is not the greatest.

You know, most Lebanese are angry against it. They don't like the organization. Hezbollah's in these talks about, you know, everyone's

talking about disarmament in Lebanon right now, disarming Hezbollah, but it's very passive, right?

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