also joining us is mar shajar, chairman of the zamic human rights commission who joins us here, the capital tehran. okay, great, welcome to you both, gentlemen. steve bell, let me first start with you, uh, we're looking at regional resistance groups that are unified in the position when it comes to the um israeli regime and obviously in support for the palestinians. um, i'm going to start out with hesbullah uh, which uh has been militarily engaged with israeli regime uh. on almost daily basis, if not a daily basis, i'm wondering as to why it is that israel wants to continue this uh targeting of hesbollah and in turn lebanon um this in this form of manner a daily basis while it's carrying out his uh us israely genocidal war on the gaza strap. well, i think the reason it is doing so is because it wants to um extend. of his own domestic weakness um coming into play um so i think that's why for the israeli uh government it's a case of um maintaining the dynamic that it has uh established in uh palestine and it wants to uh further involve the united states by provocations in the north well uh ta