PREVIEW: #Iran:#Hezbollah: #Israel: Part of a longer conversation with Jerusalem Post Seth Frantzman, also of FDD, re how Iran creates and deploys its surrogate militias to harass and provoke both Israel and the US -- and what is an effective response, w
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🗓️ 29 January 2024
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| 0:34.8 | Francman of the Jerusalem Post. The chief correspondent on the Gaza War, but the |
| 0:40.6 | whole region, reflecting upon the threat of Hezbollah in conjunction |
| 0:46.6 | with the threat acted upon by Iran-backed Iraqi militia firing into US personnel in the Jordan, Syria, Iraq region. |
| 0:59.2 | The question here is what is to be done. |
| 1:01.4 | What will effectively stop the harassing fire by the malicious |
| 1:05.7 | against the US. Seth reasons that so far Israel's responded to Hezbollah's similar harassment, proportionally. |
| 1:16.3 | Will the U.S. continue proportionally in Syria, Iraq, and Jordan. |
| 1:24.4 | That is an open question and what is achieved and Seth has a wonderful metaphor to understand |
| 1:32.2 | how Iran approaches this matter of distributing militias across the region. |
| 1:37.9 | Like a piano player, listen to South Fransman of the Jerusalem Post, an adjunct fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of |
| 1:45.6 | Democracy, is one of Bill's close colleagues contributing to the Long War Journal. |
| 1:51.6 | Well, unfortunately, I don't know if unfortunately but probably you know the |
| 1:55.6 | United States will look at what Israel's done. I mean the problem with these |
| 1:59.1 | Iran-backed militias is, the whole system of them is that Iran creates all these militias hollows out all these countries like Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, |
| 2:08.2 | Yemen, it fills them with militias and then the militias are operationalized like playing a piano they're keyed in |
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