“You Called Me A Hardcore Zionist?” - PBD Confronts John Kiriakou
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David confronts ex-CIA officer John Kiriakou over calling him a “hardcore Zionist” and Reza Pahlavi booster, live fact-checks Iran regime polls with AI, exposes behind-the-scenes smears, and pushes Kiriakou to publicly apologize on air.
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| 0:22.3 | today. But I want to get into one thing right off the bat. You were on a podcast and my phone |
| 0:27.3 | started blowing up. And I'm like, why is everybody texting me this? Look what John said about you. |
| 0:34.3 | I said, John is about to get on the podcast. So Rob, if you have the clip, I want to start off with this. I want to address it one by one by one. I want you. I said, John is about to get on the podcast. So, Rob, if you have the clip, I want to start |
| 0:39.1 | off with this. I want to address it one by one by one. I want you to cover this for me. So you're on a |
| 0:42.9 | podcast. I don't know which podcast this is, but whatever it is, I was texted by everybody with |
| 0:48.8 | this. So go ahead and play this clip. I was watching Patrick Bet David yesterday. Patrick is a |
| 0:53.5 | a hardcore Zionist. |
| 0:57.0 | He's Iranian. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't think he's Jewish. |
| 0:59.3 | I think he's like half a Syrian and half Armenian. |
| 1:01.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Hang on. |
| 1:02.4 | But he's a hard-core Zionist and not just a Zionist. |
| 1:05.9 | He is a like 1,000% backer of Reza Palavi to return to Iran and to assume the peacock throne and blah, blah, blah. |
| 1:16.8 | And he was saying yesterday that it's not 60% of the Iranian people who support the overthrow of the regime. |
| 1:25.9 | It is 94%. |
| 1:28.2 | I don't know when I've ever said that, but okay, let's keep going. |
| 1:31.0 | There are no polls. |
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