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PREVIEW: HEZBOLLAH: AYATOLLAH: Colleague Cliff May of FDD answers the puzzle of why Iran has not come to the support of its surrogate, Lebanon's Hezbollah. More tonight.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 26 September 2024

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PREVIEW: HEZBOLLAH: AYATOLLAH: Colleague Cliff May of FDD answers the puzzle of why Iran has not come to the support of its surrogate, Lebanon's Hezbollah. More tonight.

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0:00.0

This is John Batchelor, conversation with colleague Cliff May, the president and founder of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy's, asking the question, why the Ayatollah leading the I. R. G.C. has not come to the rescue of relief or support of Nasrala

0:16.5

leading Hezbollah, as Hezbollah suffering wave after wave of attacks by the IAF following the use of that signal that set off the beepers

0:28.0

and set off the telephones taking down a great deal of the leadership in the early days.

0:33.5

Why hasn't the Hyatollah stepped in with his vast army and its missiles?

0:38.5

His cliff to reason to where we are right now, and's politics of course always politics more of this tonight

0:47.2

It's hard to say what he exactly is thinking he hasn't come to Nasralo's defense in any way. He hasn't done what he did on April 13th.

0:56.2

Then with more than 300 missiles and drones were fired at Israel.

1:01.0

I think he wants has a little to survive because it's his foreign

1:04.6

legion and it protects his regime against Israel. Hard to say he probably thinks

1:12.3

he wants to slow things down because A he is trying to finish up his nuclear weapons development project and have nuclear weapons and missiles to deliver them.

1:24.0

ICBMs, that means to deliver them anywhere in the world, threaten the US,

1:28.0

threaten Europe, threaten Israel, whatever.

1:30.0

He wants that.

1:31.0

He also probably thinks that, okay, I'm going to bet that a Harris administration

1:38.1

will be very friendly to me in come January, and I think I want to save my assets for that. There's a piece.

1:45.6

I know yesterday in the Wall Street Journal by Real Mark Erect who works here at

1:50.0

FDD and Ray Ticaya who works at the Council on Foreign Relations and they are long time analysts of this

1:58.2

regime and they do as good a job as you can do reading the mind of Hayatollah Ali Kamene.

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