Preview: Comment by colleague David Daoud of FDD re the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Esmail Qaani, who has not been seen in public since a strike in Beirut that decapitated the Hezbollah leadership yet again; and there is speculation that Qaani may hav
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
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1914 Beirut
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchelor, conversation with David Dayoud of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy |
| 0:05.2 | about all matters to do with Hezbollah in Iran, but a particular detail here about the |
| 0:11.6 | commander of Iran's Kudz force, the Special Operations |
| 0:15.6 | terrorists. The deputy commander says he's in good health. He's not been seen |
| 0:20.4 | since an airstrike in Beirut last week that dominated the news these |
| 0:25.3 | last days because the number two men in Hezbollah, Safedin, reported KIA in that |
| 0:31.4 | airstrike, was Connie with him was a speculation now still not seen |
| 0:37.4 | in public since that date even missing an event in Tehran on 10-7. Ismail Kailney, where is he, joining other question marks that can't be |
| 0:48.8 | filled in for quite some time until? More of this tonight. |
| 0:53.0 | So there have been conflicting reports about Connie's presence there. |
| 0:57.2 | The Israelis have already said they didn't intend, if he was there, he wasn't an intended |
| 1:01.0 | target. |
| 1:02.2 | The Iranians have denied his death and yet yesterday there was a ceremony that he was supposed to |
| 1:11.0 | for 10-7 to commemorate 10-7 celebrating 10-7 in Iran and he wasn't able to be there and |
| 1:18.9 | someone spoke on his behalf and said you know had to, he had something important to attend to. |
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