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Delighted to be joined this morning, nice and earlier, former advisor to the Ministry of Defense,

NATO and the United Nations, Professor Gwethian Prince. Gwethian, a very good morning to you.

Good morning, good morning to everyone.

Just really, from your experience, is this great news? Do you have a degree of cynicism? Is there still work to be done? Is it PR? What's your take on this, my friend?

Hmm. Well, that's a very good mixture of questions because it's an element of all of those, I think, Jeremy.

Look, let's be clear. There are two wars going on in this region.

There's a real war on the ground,

which the Israelis and the Americans have won,

as your colleague Samara was pointing out, I think, just little earlier,

in quite decisive fashion,

so that the regime of the Shia theocracy has been smashed pretty decisively.

It's been decapitated in its leadership.

It's had most of its missile creation and its missile firing capabilities destroyed.

All of those things have happened and need to happen,

because this is without any question the most evil regime that we have had to fight directly

since the Nazis at the end of the Second World War. The other war that's going on is propaganda war,

which the Iranians have largely been

winning, because if you listen to most of the Western media, you will hear lots of my

esteemed colleagues giving you very complicated answers, very nuanced answers, particularly

on the BBC, which suggest that almost they suggest, some of them almost directly,

that it would be really rather a good thing if the Americans and the Israelis were somehow

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