S8 Ep741: review for Later Today Jonathan Sayeh details Ahmad Vahidi's history of terror plots, establishing his credibility within the IRGC. Given his role in dirty wars, Vahidi is unlikely to compromise with United States negotiators in current discussions.
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🗓️ 13 April 2026
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Jonathan Sayeh details Ahmad Vahidi's history of terror plots, establishing his credibility within the IRGC. Given his role in dirty wars, Vahidi is unlikely to compromise with United States negotiators in current discussions.
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| 0:39.5 | foundation for defensive democracies writing about the five men who make decisions for the tehran |
| 0:45.2 | regime the one i'm focused on here is a man named fahidi he's associated with the marine |
| 0:50.2 | bombing and the destruction of the u.s embassy in Beirut and the torture of the CIA |
| 0:55.7 | officer Buckley in the early 80s. He's associated with the bombing and mass murder of Jewish citizens |
| 1:02.3 | of Argentina in 1994. He's certainly associated with other bad acts, including the murder of |
| 1:08.4 | the prosecutor Alberto Nizeman in Argentina. |
| 1:12.6 | Bahidi is longtime master of dirty tricks and dirty war. The likelihood of Vahidi compromising in any |
| 1:22.6 | fashion with negotiators from the United States is far-fetched at this point. I mention here's Jonathan's |
| 1:29.9 | opinion of why Bahidi has such credibility with the IRGC, the state within a state. More of this |
| 1:36.6 | tonight. Jonathan Sire. He has, and as you pointed out, he's done a lot of the dirty work, |
| 1:42.8 | and I think that resume speaks for itself |
| 1:45.1 | internally. Nothing is more legitimate amongst the guards than a person that was able to carry out |
| 1:50.1 | all these terror plots. And as you point out, dating back as far as the 80s, which is, |
| 1:55.5 | Islamic Republic was still quite young and they were still carrying out these operations, which is |
| 1:59.1 | significant. And now he oversees the main ideological and military body of the regime, the IRGC. |
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