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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with my good colleague, Bill Rajo, a senior fellow for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy. |
0:10.0 | We necessarily have been focusing on Iran in its suspect nuclear weapons program. |
0:15.3 | However, Iran has long been said by many administrations, reaching back to the 20th century, it is the chief sponsor |
0:23.3 | of terror, state terror in the world. |
0:26.8 | And Bill has filed a piece at the Long War Journal I recommend because as we understand |
0:35.2 | it, Iran continues to be a threat to the whole of the Middle East, |
0:41.4 | where the U.S. has many assets, where our allies are very vulnerable. |
0:46.2 | Bill, at this point, Iran has successfully managed a lot of its surrogates through the war with Israel right now, and we will |
0:56.1 | speak of this at length with our colleagues today, the surrogates appear to be blunted. |
1:03.4 | That again, though, does not in any way change the intention of Iran. |
1:09.2 | I don't see a connection between the suspect nuclear weapons |
1:12.8 | program and their ability to project terror. Is there, Bill? Well, at first, I agree that they |
1:20.8 | have been blunted. I think that goes for Iran. That goes for its proxies, including the Houthis, |
1:26.5 | Hezbollah, Hamas is on its back foot |
1:28.7 | in Gaza. You know, the Iraqi militias were very quiet during all of this. Some attacks |
1:35.8 | against U.S. forces, but really, this was all in all, everything was on the margins. So the, |
1:42.1 | I do link the proxies to the nuclear program. And here's how, because |
1:47.6 | again, as I mentioned in the previously, Iran has been going toe to toe with Israel, which is a |
1:56.5 | nuclear power. And Iran has been emboldened to launch ballistic missiles against Israel on three separate |
2:04.4 | time periods, right? It was April and October of last year. And then obviously in the in the past month, |
2:11.1 | he's launched barrage after barrage. And they were willing to do that as well as sponsor its proxies to attack Israel while there was no, well, Iran didn't possess that nuclear deterrent itself. |
2:28.5 | Again, I go just how emboldened would the Iranians be if it had a nuclear program and it, well, it has a nuclear |
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