I'm John Batchel, two capitals, Tehran and Beirut, both housing the bad actors of the Middle East.

The Iran regime right now is teetering, I'm told.

Larajani is dead, the man whom the supreme leader before his demise named to take over,

to command.

Ali Larajani is dead, struck by an Israeli air strike,

purposeful. Israel continues the decap process we saw in Hezbollah. The other capital is

Beirut. Hezbollah commands control of the government for many years,

and I'm told that the IDF is intending and underway to launch a campaign

to end Hezbollah's threat to the people of Israel.

They're launching very good weapons, very good missiles,

with cluster bombs into the population to deliberately kill as many people as possible. However, the work

here is not anywhere close to obvious. So I ask your measure, Mary. I always was for low-hanging

fruit to build up some momentum. Taking on Beirut and Tehran at the same time, state will be invited.

But is this going to follow the Caracas model, the Havana model, if that exists?

Certainly following the Baghdad model would not be advised.

Do you see a change of tactic not to ask the army to leave,

but to keep the organizations intact as much as possible and conduct

the transition as in a Caracas fashion? How do you see this, Mary? For both capitals, we have a few

minutes. Well, it's a very different kind of regime in Tehran than in Caracas. Caracas,

as we've discussed, I think,

on earlier shows, was led by criminal thugs, whereas Tehran is led or was led by ideologically

motivated Islamists with revolutionary zeal. And so those are two very different things. I think the

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