I'm John Batchel with Bill Raja of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, Bill

and his colleagues keep the Long War Journal.

That's a publication dedicated to updating you on war fighting and the terror groups of Africa and Eurasia.

Right now we're talking about a major league terror group, so much so it's an army called Hezbollah.

And David Dio is here to help us called Hezbollah. And David Daoud is here to help

us understand Hezbollah's resilience or not. David, over the weekend, we learned that the U.S.

had three demands in Islamabad of the so-called negotiations with the Tehran, what's left of the

Tehran leadership. One, reopen and keep open the Straits of Hormuz.

That's new.

That's a new demand on a formal negotiating table.

Two, surrender the FISA material and the ability to reawaken your processing of fissau material.

In other words, your nuclear weapons program must be surrendered to us.

And three, and this was the most challenging, stop the support of the surrogate armies

you have grown around the region, mentioning Houthis, Qatibh, Hezbollah in Iraq, certainly Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza.

What would that entail stopping surrendering to Hezbollah?

As I understand, Hezbollah is now aiding the regime in Tehran, not the other way around.

Is Hezbollah something that can be separated from Tehran?

That's an excellent question.

And it's one we keep going back to.

And it's one that I keep seeing, you know, that Iran, and not just now from before that Iran will somehow trade off, you know, trade off Hezbollah for its own security.

The problem is this misunderstands the relationship between Hezbo and Iran.

It is not one of, I mean, Hezbo is not a dispensable asset.

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