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PREVIEW: #IRAN: #NUKES: An excerpt from a conversation with colleague Richard Goldberg of FDD re the game-playing hide-and-seek that Iran has constructed with regard to the enrichment of uranium ore to the old red line of 20%today.and then... More of thi

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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PREVIEW: #IRAN: #NUKES: An excerpt from a conversation with colleague Richard Goldberg of FDD re the game-playing hide-and-seek that Iran has constructed with regard to the enrichment of uranium ore to the old red line of 20%today.and then... More of this later.

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. For years I have gone to the north of Israel, the finger of Israel, and

0:26.1

looked across a border not to Lebanon, but to Hezbollah. His Hezbollah, the Party of God, begins in the Reagan administration responsible for the torture

0:37.8

and death of the CIA Station Chief in Beirut, as well as the murder of his U.S. Marines and French Marines is my

0:46.4

memory.

0:47.4

Hezbollah, these many decades later, is a vast military organization extremely well armed

0:54.8

with a plan in place to hide with behind to be civilians

1:00.6

and make the Israelis hesitate on counter strikes.

1:05.0

However, since the Hamas rate of October 7th,

1:08.0

Hezbollah has been changing tactics, not easily predictable.

1:12.0

And I welcome Richard Goldberg, a senior... tactics, not easily predictable.

1:12.6

And I welcome Richard Goldberg, a senior advisor at the Foundation

1:16.5

for the Defense of Democracy, writing most recently

1:19.5

at the Dispatch about Hezbollah today what the threat is and what is to be done.

1:25.7

Rich, a very good evening to you.

1:27.2

Hezbollah is deployed in the Bekah.

1:31.2

Hezbollah has sometimes more than 160,000 rockets, sometimes less, but a great deal

1:38.8

in its arsenal. And some of those rockets can hit what they're aiming at because they have been

1:43.9

augmented. They also have drones as you present in your article and they have a

1:49.0

military organization called the Radwan group that is responsible for provoking the people who live along

1:55.8

the Israel border so much so that 80 to 100,000 of them have now been evacuated.

2:01.3

This is not a state of affairs to continue. The big question, for

2:05.7

years I have reported on the expectation of the war of the North. Is that what is underway?

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