S8 Ep378: David Daoud explores what Hezbollah will manage if Tehran fails. The discussion considers the organization's future autonomy and survival prospects should its Iranian patron collapse, examining whether the group can sustain itself independently or faces i

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David Daoud explores what Hezbollah will manage if Tehran fails. The discussion considers the organization's future autonomy and survival prospects should its Iranian patron collapse, examining whether the group can sustain itself independently or faces inevitable decline without external support.
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0:00.0	I'm John Batchew with David Ayy
0:17.8	of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, watching a very large and very
0:22.0	dangerous army, Hezbollah. The reports of South of Lattani demonstrate that the Israelis have taken
0:29.5	on the burden of policing gangsters or spiritual representatives, have it as you will. The guys with guns. But the guys with guns read
0:41.2	the news. And the news is the mothership, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the bridge between
0:48.8	Tehran and Beirut is shattered. Thousands dead in Iran, maybe as many as 40,000.
0:59.3	The number floats around.
1:01.4	The Islamic regime very much on the defensive.
1:04.8	At the same time, an air fleet has now been assembled in the Middle East, F-15s, KC-135s, a fleet offshore, three carrier battle
1:16.3	groups to my counting. All of this, because the President of the United States has indicated
1:22.1	that Iran shall not have a nuclear weapon. We thought that was taken care of with a raid last June, but apparently not.
1:29.9	I'm told that the presence of the KC-135 air tankers based in Diego Garcia indicates what is
1:40.0	possible is a campaign, not a strike, not a raid, a campaign, nothing stealthy about it,
1:47.6	to reduce the Islamic Republic of Iran to trash, to end the regime by decap.
1:55.0	What didn't happen in June, the threat is now there.
1:59.3	Hezbo is watching this.
2:01.0	What is to be done?
2:02.4	David, do they have a plan B?
2:06.4	Well, I think the way, I mean, it's interesting.
2:12.0	We ask this question now.
2:13.1	Naim Kossin, his deputy secretary general of Hezbollah,
2:15.8	was just addressing this this morning,
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