Putin's new message and Khamenei's threat of war

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0:01 Hello. It is Monday, 28 Mehr 1404, October 20, 2025. I apologize that, because I am traveling, I am presenting the program to you from a place along the way, and we will turn to the important issues of these past few days. I also apologize for the background noise in this place. It is not up to me; it is music being played here. Now, on the sixth day of the hunger strike by prisoners in Ward 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison, 850 political and social activists signed a letter in support of these prisoners, and in it, while protesting the spread of executions in

1:06 Iran, they announced their support for the group hunger strike of prisoners in Ghezel Hesar Prison. Of these prisoners, 16 were taken to solitary confinement for execution, and so far 5 of them have been executed within these same 6 days. Their protest, in refusing food and in the letters they have published, is that executions and the killing machine must stop. Now, Mr. Khamenei's remarks after 3 weeks, during which he had probably been hiding in a few other holes. The last place, after Mr. Ali Larijani's trip,

2:05 it was said that he was in Mashhad, and someone who was well-informed said that beneath the shrine there is a place for storing the gold and jewelry that people donate to the Imam Reza shrine, and there is also a residence, a suite, there, where Khamenei had in fact been hiding, using the people there as a human shield. In any case, today, at a gathering of athletes and Olympiad medal winners, according to his office, Mr. Khamenei made harsh remarks addressed to Trump, the President of the United States. Among other things, he said Trump can go on dreaming that he has destroyed Iran's nuclear facilities,

2:59 and he also hurled personal insults at Trump himself, like "babbler" or "unqualified for dialogue," and things of that sort. Mr. Khamenei once again claimed victory in the 12-day war and also threatened another war. The question was raised: why is Khamenei, first of all, flexing his muscles like this again? In the message he sent to Putin, and in Putin's reply, has Putin once again emboldened him to come out blustering? In fact, Russia's policy is to keep Iran in its current situation, in which

3:56 it effectively has its back turned to the Western world, the European Union and America, and lives in a state of war and insecurity. At the same time, Russia does not want Iran to be attacked, because then the victors might decide its fate. But it also does not want Iran's relations with the West, the European Union, America and so on ever to become normal, so that it always remains hand-to-mouth and dependent on Russia. We dealt with this subject in the previous program and also stated that Russia's plan for after Khamenei is a Putin-style model, like the way Putin came to power in Russia itself. But in any case, these remarks by

4:51 Mr. Khamenei have once again raised the issue that our country is getting by in a crisis of uncertainty, with the shadow of war over its head. Also, in these remarks he said, addressing Mr. Trump: if you are capable, go and calm down the millions of people in America who are chanting slogans against you. In fact, he judges others by himself and thinks that in America too, if there is a demonstration against the president, for example, he must go and suppress it and calm the people down, just as in Iran, if there is a demonstration against Khamenei, they pour in and kill, blind and imprison people to calm them down. Whereas America

5:48 is a democracy, and people can make the harshest criticisms of Mr. Trump and all government officials, not only in street demonstrations but on radio, television and in the press. In any case, Mr. Khamenei judged others by himself. The demonstrations held on Saturday in more than 2,600 cities and locations in America, in which it is said more than 7 million people took part under the title "No Kings," may perhaps be called the largest single-day demonstration against an American president in contemporary history. Mr. Trump has also given some responses, and posted an AI-made video on his own platform, and this

6:50 tug-of-war in America continues. But at the same time that Mr. Khamenei said these things today, this very day Mr. Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump's special envoy for Middle East affairs, said that he has received contacts from Iranian officials. Mr. Baghaei, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, also stated today that indirect contacts with America are ongoing, but that for now there are no negotiations. Now, the release of a video of the wedding of Mr. Shamkhani's daughter in Farvardin 1403, that is, 20 months ago, at the Espinas Hotel in Tehran, a five-star, expensive hotel that is in practice also under the control of the Ministry of Intelligence, a wedding about which it was said at the time that

7:50 the cost for one night was some billion and four-tenths tomans, has stirred up an uproar and raised rightful questions among the people: how is it that this same Mr. Shamkhani and his cronies, the IRGC and so on and so forth, beat, kill and suppress people over the hijab, yet at his daughter's wedding his wife and others, the women there, are unveiled in front of Mr. Shamkhani, and they hold such a lavish wedding? Or, as the saying goes, "They teach people to renounce the world, while they themselves hoard silver and gold." Mr. Velayati invites people to eat dry bread and tighten their belts for the struggle, and then the other people of the regime, and

8:50 Mr. Velayati himself and his sons, pocket billions and live such lavish and kingly lives. Now, this Mr. Shamkhani: previously, during the Jina revolution, at a confidential meeting of IRGC commanders with Khamenei, one of the IRGC commanders raised the question: how should I answer my personnel when one of them says the watch on Mr. Shamkhani's son's wrist is equal to 3 years of my salary? In that same meeting, Mr. Shamkhani, with utter impudence, stated that, no, we are helping the country, and my son, for example, is circumventing the sanctions. On top of that, he even acts as if he were doing the country a favor. The question has been raised: Mr.

9:47 Shamkhani, who also told that lie during the 12-day war, saying he was under the rubble and prayed, and later it turned out to be an outright lie, and he was not under any rubble at all; he was not even in that house that night. Whose backing does he rely on, what hand does he have in the regime, that he does these things and says these things? Just today he also made a harsh insult, which I do not want to repeat. And how is it that no one can hold him to account? In fact, it must be said that Shamkhani is one of the Al Capones who are involved not only in oil smuggling and the trade in oil and petrochemical products and so on, as well as imports and the like, but

10:44 he has a gang and a mafia. He is one of the Al Capones who, to put it another way, sit around the mafia table at whose head Khamenei sits like a godfather. But there are a number of them who in practice form the structure of his regime. In fact, Shamkhani and a number of others like him, not only with their wealth but with the free hand they have in the country's affairs and the gangs and mafias they have, are the structure of Mr. Khamenei's regime. In fact, it must be said that the Islamic Republic regime is made up of several Shamkhanis who, stacked on top of one another, now constitute this regime and pocket the wealth,

11:41 and on the other hand suppress the people or execute them. Therefore, as for who can hold Shamkhani to account, the question must be turned around: Shamkhani is himself part of a regime in which the arrests and crackdowns are also part of the work of this very structure. And Mr. Shamkhani, over whom there is now also a question mark as to what relations he has with foreigners and so on and so forth, is among those who, in all the crimes, thefts, repression, and everything that has kept Khamenei's power standing, is one of the shareholders of this joint-stock company.

12:36 Now, Ahmad Esmaeilzadeh, director of the Office for Nutrition Improvement at the Ministry of Health, stated at a specialized conference today that about half of Iran's population does not get enough of the four main food groups, namely grains, fruits and vegetables, dairy, and protein foods, and that because of this malnutrition public health is in danger, especially for children and the young generation, who are the country's future. Because of the runaway price increases and the inflation in food, which has been higher than for other goods, this issue has taken on an acute, dangerous and devastating

13:34 dimension over the past several months. Hoping for the victory of Iran and Iranians.