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8: Iran Trash-Talks Trump; Nuclear Ambitions Become More Overt. Jonathan Sayeh and Bill Roggio discuss how Iran's Supreme Leader publicly rejected Trump's appeals for negotiations, a move primarily aimed at boosting domestic morale following regional setback

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Iran Trash-Talks Trump; Nuclear Ambitions Become More Overt. Jonathan Sayeh and Bill Roggio discuss how Iran's Supreme Leader publicly rejected Trump's appeals for negotiations, a move primarily aimed at boosting domestic morale following regional setbacks. However, a top nuclear scientist overtly claimed Iran has the capacity to build a nuclear bomb, suggesting weaponization ambitions are becoming less covert. Tehran views its regional position as a lose-lose scenario but uses the Gaza ceasefire as a critical breathing room opportunity to rearm its weakened proxies.

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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Bill Rajo, my colleague and co-host, and we're

0:29.5

joined by Jonathan Saya, the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, watching the Islamic Republic

0:35.3

of Iran during this period in between the war fighting

0:39.8

and the return of all the hostages, the so-called ceasefire, which has been broken already.

0:45.4

But the largest story is the driver of all of this violence for the last two years, Iran.

0:52.2

This headline from Jerusalem,

0:55.7

Hamanai tells Trump to, quote, keep dreaming, end quote,

1:00.5

that the U.S. strikes destroyed Iran's nuclear sites.

1:04.3

The Supreme Leader rebuffs U.S. President's appeal for negotiations,

1:09.0

calling his Mr. Trump's interventions, that's a quote, in Islamic

1:14.5

Republic's nuclear program, quote, inappropriate, wrong, and coercive.

1:19.8

Jonathan, a very good evening to you. The suspect nuclear weapons program, it was struck by

1:26.4

B2 bombs in June, is presumed very badly damaged. I have heard estimates

1:32.0

of two to three years to repair it. What is your understanding of why the Supreme Leader is

1:38.2

choosing this moment to trash talk Donald Trump? Is this a game? Is he stalling? Where is he going

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