HEADLINE: Iran's Nuclear Standoff Continues; Tehran Seeks Russian Help and New Iraq Smuggling Routes to Support Proxies GUEST NAME: Jonathan Sayah SUMMARY: Jonathan Sayah analyzes Iran's difficult juncture with the IAEA regarding nuclear transparency and
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
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HEADLINE: Iran's Nuclear Standoff Continues; Tehran Seeks Russian Help and New Iraq Smuggling Routes to Support Proxies
GUEST NAME: Jonathan Sayah
SUMMARY: Jonathan Sayah analyzes Iran's difficult juncture with the IAEA regarding nuclear transparency and reconstitution fears, noting Russian aid and Iranian efforts to sustain proxies via new smuggling routes through Iraq.
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| 0:23.8 | I'm John Batson with Bill Rajo and Jonathan Sayre of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. |
| 0:30.5 | Iran has surrogates and are they attending to them? |
| 0:34.7 | We go right now to a report, Jonathan, you filed it a Long War |
| 0:38.4 | Journal about the IDF or the IAF or a drone striking an IRGC member in southern Lebanon. At the |
| 0:46.8 | same time, we have a detention or more of a Kud's Force unit in Syria. What is the thinking |
| 0:53.9 | about the Iranians? |
| 0:55.9 | Are they putting people back in? |
| 0:57.4 | Are they lighting up their networks that are in place? |
| 1:00.3 | And what is the aim? |
| 1:03.7 | Ultimately, when you look at the recent operations by the IDF in the Levant, let's say, |
| 1:09.3 | it just highlights that number one, on one hand, we thought that Iran was able to curb its |
| 1:15.0 | influence a little bit, or better to be more accurate. |
| 1:18.7 | The new regime in Syria was able to curb Iran and influence in the Levant. |
| 1:22.6 | And that is both true and not. |
| 1:24.7 | So, of course, we know Iran is struggling with weapons shipments to Lebanese |
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