This is John Batcher, conversation with Ord Kitria, the Foundation for Defensive democracies,

who's written along with his colleagues Ben and Ben Taliblu and Brad Bowman,

recommendations about what is to be done with the suspect nuclear weapons program in Iran.

Now the day after the day after the attack on Tel Aviv, where does this recommendation go first?

Here's Art Kitri to describe a military exercise that happened already.

It's called Operation Juniper Oak.

What is it and what is the significance now that

Tel Aviv has been attacked by 181 ballistic missiles? None of which carried a

nuclear weapon right now. More of this tonight. So Operation

Juniper Oak was an exercise with the US and Israel. They practiced what an attack on Iran's nuclear program might look like.

A lot of the elements of Juniper Oak look just like an attack on Iran's nuclear program.

And it seems to me that if the US and Israel

are going to attack Iran's nuclear program

and stop it before it reaches fruition, the time to do that is

now. And there are no Israeli government can tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of a regime that

threatens to wipe Israel off the map and sponsors terrorist groups committed Israel's destruction.

But it's important to understand that Iranian nuclear

program is also completely counter to the national security interests of the

United States. A nuclear-armed Iran would empower this horrible bloodthirsty

Iranian regime to do more of what it's been doing with its proxies. It could also lead others in the

region to get their own nuclear weapon, triggering an arms race in one of the

world's most volatile regions.

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