With no air defense, Tehran, the regime, is naked.

The Ayatollah has no clothes.

You now have a situation where if you're the Israeli Air Force,

you can take these jets, you can take drones,

potentially launch missiles, at almost any target in Iran, and face

no threat of being taken out of the sky, intercepted.

That is a game-changing situation, not just for the Israelis, but also for the United States and our coalition partners as we contemplate our own contingencies in the future. It's 4 o'clock p.m. on Monday, October 28th here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

where I am with my friend Dave McCormick who's running for the US Senate for an

event we're doing tonight in Pittsburgh. It's 11 o'clock p.m. in Israel. Before diving into

today's conversation which will focus on Iran, just want to take a moment to

acknowledge how difficult this past week has been for many of our

listeners especially in Israel but not only in Israel with the war fighting on

Israel's northern front with Hezbollah In the last few days,

23 IDF soldiers have been killed in action,

mostly in the north, on the northern front,

but also some have been killed in Gaza, and that means that

56 children of those 23 have lost their father this past week.

Many of these soldiers were milliweme soldiers,

reservists, who have been in reserve service

for many of them for more than 270 days.

Those are 270 days away from their families, their businesses, their coworkers, their fellow students, their

communities, and they are the ones who are bearing most of the brunt of this war right now at least, then we will be focusing some of our next episode,

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