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The threat from Iran in response to the Damascus targeted killing of the IRGC's

Zahidi.

That is dominating the news in Jerusalem.

The threat from Iran is we are preparing strikes

on Israeli embassies. The details here are critical but right now we're going to move

to the larger story of the war between Iran and Israel

underway using the surrogates of Hamas Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Khaty Hezbollah of Iraq, and more bad players on the West Bank

than I can recount. I welcome Mary Kistle at the Executive Vice President of Stevens Incorporated, former senior advisor to the

Secretary of State and before that at the Wall Street Journal editorial page.

The strike on a building in Damascus, significant in that the casualties turn out

to be the commander of Lebanon in Syria for the IRGC, a man named Sahiti, his deputy, and several of its staff.

The war between Tehran and Jerusalem is now out in front.

Significant from our point of view, Mary, is that the Biden administration has been reluctant to talk about this.

Do you believe this event will require them to come out? this is a very a very

them to come out and say this is not about Hamas or Hezbollah

this is about the mullahs.

Good evening to you, Mary.

Good evening to you, John.

Well, I think this is a very significant that it's I think fairly obvious that they conducted it and the importance of killing a senior

Koods Force leader has a number of implications. First of all, it signals to Iran that these proxy attacks on Israel

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