PREVIEW HEZBOLLAH: Colleague David Daoud of FDD comments on why the Iran backed Hezbollah fell quiet and shy during the IDF attacks on Iran. More.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 July 2025
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1881 BEIRUT CASTLE
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague David Diyud. |
| 0:03.9 | Where is Hezbollah during the exchange of bombing runs between Israel and Iran during the American attack on the suspect nuclear weapons program? |
| 0:18.7 | Where was Hezbollah? |
| 0:20.3 | Where is Hezbollah? Where is Hezbollah? |
| 0:22.2 | David answers, keeping its head down. |
| 0:25.4 | David Diyud, Hezbollah, its new mission, keeping your heads down. |
| 0:30.6 | More of this tonight. |
| 0:32.6 | Survival, more than anything. |
| 0:34.2 | Rick, you know, the question is during the Israel-Iran War, the question was always 10, Rick, you know, the question is, uh, during, |
| 0:37.6 | during the Israel-Iran war, |
| 0:38.8 | the question was always, |
| 0:40.4 | can, |
| 0:41.4 | um, |
| 0:42.9 | can a proxy serve its patron through silence, |
| 0:46.2 | through inaction, |
| 0:47.6 | right? |
| 0:47.7 | Rather than reading that the resistance axis is over as a result of |
| 0:51.7 | Hezbollas non-involvement in the Israeli-Iran war, |
| 0:55.5 | I think this actually is an indication that the Resistance Act, this is maintaining its cohesion and its ability |
| 1:01.9 | to operate as necessary. And part of the need right now that Iran has is for the post-October |
| 1:08.9 | 7th war. This is a big miscalculation by the Iranian axis. |
| 1:13.6 | You can argue that it was premature by 10 years, as I've heard some people say, that the attack |
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