Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Podcasts
personIran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is a key political and religious figure in Iran.
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Up First from NPR
Trump Issues Travel Ban, Musk Criticizes Budget Bill, Iran Nuclear Talks Latest
The U.S. wants to arrive at terms that prevent Iran from ever building a nuclear weapon. Iran denies that it wants one. But Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says the U.S. proposal was against his country's own interests.
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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | June 6th, 2025: China Secretly Helps Iran Rebuild Ballistic Missile Arsenal & Putin Unleashes Brutal Revenge Strikes Across Ukraine
Some experts fear that they're using the slow, drawn-out nuclear negotiations with the U.S. as a distraction to bide time for these rebuilding efforts. As we've been tracking here on the PDB, those negotiations, if you can call them that, aren't really progressing. On Tuesday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected a revised nuclear proposal from the U.S.