I'm John Batchler. I welcome my long-time good colleague, Mary Kessel.

She is the executive vice president and Stevens, Incorporated.

That's the private world.

Herefore, she was a senior advisor to the Secretary of State.

That's the public world.

And before that, she was both public and private working the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal in Asia and in America.

I call upon all those skills right now because of the unknowns of Iran.

We're told, and this information is what you get when you ask, and you don't have secret

sources or you don't pretend, we're told there's an air fleet assembled in and around the Iranian airspace. We're

told there's a naval fleet assembled in and around the seas of the Middle East. We're told

that the president and the supreme leader in Iran have been in contact through lieutenants.

It may turn on to the nuclear weapons program

that was believed damage to was severely retarded last summer. It may turn on some other information

about Iran threaten making threats towards the neighborhood. Certainly they're responsible for

the attacks on Israel and the depredations of tens of thousands. Certainly they're responsible for the attacks on Israel and the

depredations of tens of thousands. They're also responsible for the mass murder of their own citizens

these last weeks by opening fire with automatic weapons on clearly children and going door to door

in Tehran to search for people who were wounded by their bullets and killing them.

That's going on now, I'm told.

The executions are going on now, I'm told.

Therefore, what is to be done?

Mary, you have the most recent experience of how to deal with Iran in the first term for Mr. Trump, you work for Mr. Pompeo,

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