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

We've been addressing the Straits of our moves, the suspect of the weapons program,

the non-transparency of the Iranian regime.

However, we have other wars.

There was in the ceasefire language used about Hezbollah in Lebanon in these last days, there's no indication

right now that the ceasefire either did or did not start. This is a ceasefire inside of a ceasefire.

Hezbollah is a very, very powerful organization that is reawakening, reconstituting itself after

the war's fought for the last two years.

And Bill, I, we will talk to David D'Aoud in the course of the conversation within these hours.

But there's no reason to believe that Iran has turned Hezbollah off, and Hezbollah doesn't have an independent opinion of what it should do next.

I note that there's no reason to believe that Tehran has turned Hamas off,

as beaten down as it is, nor any of the surrogates that it's used against Israel

or to provoke the neighborhood.

None of them have been turned off.

Do I say that correctly, Bill?

Your page covers all of them.

Yeah, that's correct.

I mean, Hezbollah, and we'll talk about it with David later today,

Hezbollah launched an attack against an Israeli convoy moving in southern Lebanon.

So, you know, the ceasefire there, again, head spinning,

head turning. It's an agreement between Israel and Lebanon, but Hezboa didn't come to the table

and sign off on this so they can claim plausible deniability here.

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