S8 Ep740: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY: David Daoud explains that Hezbollah is an integral extension of the Iranian regime, not a disposable proxy. Abandoning them would signify Iran ending its regional dominance quest and fundamentally altering its core ideological for
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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| 0:34.4 | with Indeed. This is John Batchelor, conversation with colleague David Doode of the Foundation for Defense |
| 0:41.5 | of Democracies, separating Hezbollah from the Tehran regime. |
| 0:47.5 | One of the demands of the United States in the recent negotiations in Islamabad was that |
| 0:54.0 | Tehran stopped supporting the surrogate armies in the |
| 0:58.6 | region it has created in order to attack Israel and its neighbors. That would be Qadib Hezbollah |
| 1:05.7 | in Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen, certainly Hezbollah and Lebanon, Hamas and Gaza. |
| 1:12.4 | There are more. |
| 1:14.3 | Can Iran separate itself from the Hezbollah? |
| 1:18.7 | Can Hezbollah separate itself from Iran? |
| 1:22.0 | David Doid is extremely clear. |
| 1:25.7 | The answer is, here's David. |
| 1:29.3 | That's an excellent question, and it's one we keep going back to, and it's one that I keep |
| 1:33.9 | seeing, you know, that Iran, and not just now from before that Iran will somehow trade |
| 1:41.2 | off, you know, trade off Hezbollah for its own security. |
| 1:45.3 | The problem is this misunderstands the relationship between Hezbo and Iran. |
| 1:49.0 | It is not one of, I mean, Hezbo is not a dispensable asset. |
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