March 6, 2026 • 30 mins
Sean Hannity breaks down the rapidly escalating conflict with Iran as Operation Epic Fury reshapes the geopolitical landscape in the Middle East. Hannity explains how U.S. and Israeli intelligence coordinated a precision strike that eliminated Iran’s Supreme Leader and crippled key military infrastructure in the opening moments of the campaign. He examines the dramatic collapse of Iran’s naval power, the destruction of missile capabilities, and the weakening of Tehran’s regional proxy forces. Hannity also analyzes the strategic implications of controlling oil routes and what it could mean for global energy markets and U.S. national security. Throughout the hour, he argues that decisive action now prevents a nuclear Iran and avoids a prolonged war later. Hannity also reflects on the historical transformation of Iran—from a once-Western society to a regime defined by radical leadership. The hour concludes with discussion about what a post-regime Iran could look like and why the outcome of this conflict may reshape the Middle East for generations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ada, and thanks to all of you for being with us.
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Remember Bagdad, Bob Linda back in the day the Iraq War.
Fake News CNN accused of pushing pro Iran regime propaganda
by the Trump administration yesterday after a reporter for the
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network said it appeared that daily life was continuing despite
the ongoing war. Senior international correspondent, I never heard of
this person. I can't even read riek. Somebody said during
a segment that all the shelves and shops are stocked
and even with fresh things. As he casually held up
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a cup of coffee. Fuel seems readily available, and you
just don't see any degree of panic anywhere. Well, because
people have hope for a better future. The Assistant Secretary
of State for Global Public Affairs still and Johnson slammed
this idiot's comments. DNN appears to now be doing straight
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up pro Iran regime propaganda because someone gave this guy
a cup of coffee, he writes on X, which I
thought was fairly funny. The White House has given an
update on the uranium war in the timeline. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said she wouldn't get ahead of
the President on broadcasting any timelines, but added, what I
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will tell you is what the President has already laid
out the achievable objectives of Operation Epic Fury. We expect
the last four to six weeks we are well on
our way to achieving those objectives. The President also said
we were ahead of the expected timeline. Then Levitt laid
out the objectives and where they stood. Annihilating Iran's navy.
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We've sunk more than thirty vessels and ships, the navy
is now deemed combat ineffective, and taking out the ballistic
missile threat that a RAM posed to the US and
our troops and bases in the region. The US military
has done a tremendous job at achieving that objectives thus far,
and just six days, not even a week, and just
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six days in the retaliatory ballistic missile strikes from Iran
are now down ninety percent, of course, ensuring that Iran
can never obtain a nuclear weapon as well and significantly
weakening their proxies in the region, which we know, are
responsible for the deaths of Americans, and we've seen Hiszballah
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and the Huti's hardly putting up a fight over the
course of the last six days that I know did
surprise the Israelis, and the Israelis have to expect and
anticipate the worst, and they thought there'd be more more
support from the proxies of Iran, but the leadership was
wiped out in the first thirty seconds. Who are they
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going to take orders from, where are they going to
get their weapon from? Etc. The President now issued a
warning to what is left of the Iranian government on
truth social you know, and we'll get into this later
in the program that I don't know if you've heard
about this. They have a new foreign minister, Linda, and
he says we're ready for US troops if they attack.
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Maybe he's not watching, you know. Pretty much every military
site be obliterated in front of his eyes. But nobody
knows who he is, because this guy would be like
the fiftieth choice, maybe the hundredths. Well think about it.
I mean, in the initial thirty seconds, they took out
the supreme leader Ali Hamani. He's dead and all of
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his henchmen his top leadership, and we learned today that
they did it by, you know, purposely Donald Trump. They
were following him on truth social and it was through
deception and post the President Trump was making that showed
that he was nowhere near thinking about going into the conflict.
That was done apparently on purpose, which is smart to do.
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And then, of course the Supreme Council was leading is
meeting eighty what seven and eighty eight members, whatever the
number is, and they're in the middle of voting for
the next Supreme Leader and they all got wiped out.
Nobody knows who's in charge of anything at this point,
but the President demanding and issuing a warning what is
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left of this government that there will be no deal
with Iran except unconditional surrender. After that, the selection of
a great and acceptable leader, and the President's right to
demand this. This is costing this country billions and billions
of dollars. Now, I expect knowing the Trump doctrine as
well as I do, and I am tired of the dumb,
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ignorant people that have no understanding of President Trump, that
interpret in spite of his first term, in spite of
Operation Midnight Hammer. You know, they have no concept of
what Donald Trump's doctrine is. Yes, he believes in no
forever wars, no boots on the ground, but you can't
exclude it because for strategic reasons you can. I mean,
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at some point, I would imagine Americans are going to
be on the ground in Iran helping them extract their
oil and get their economy back in place. But I'm
pretty certain also that the US will insist that they
pay for their own liberation. And that's a question for
another day, when all the fighting is done and this
entire regime has been defeated. Still reports that the Kurds
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are beginning a process of arming the Iranian citizens, the
hundreds of thousands that had taken to the streets, remember
tens of thousands of them were killed, and then they
will be able if there's any holdovers from the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard or local police or I don't know, Kuds
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forces somewhere, although the Cuds, the head of the Kuds
forces has been a limit also that they'll have an
ability to defend themselves. Trump demanding capitulation a day after
also insisting a direct role and picking this successor to
Ali Hamani and the you know, the president, now brushing
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off reports that Hamany's fifty six year old son could
take over, calling him a lightweight and an unacceptable option,
to say the least. This guy's in no position. By
the way, would you want to be selected? I'd choose you, Linda.
You're going to be the next leader of Iran. We're
going to call you Supreme Leader. Linda.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm calling for mini skirts and high heels. Like you know,
back in the seventies, Iran was beautiful. Back then, the
people were having a wonderful time.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Persian culture history phenomen amazing, phenomenal. I mean, there
are some online Iranian commentators and we had one on
the show. What was her name, Arika? I'm sorry, Elka Lebot.
I mean she's great and she has who's that other
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person that you told me.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Was on? Another one has been on. They all have
experiences there and they talk about what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Before and and how western that they were. Uh. Now,
I would make an argument that the Shah did not
handle things well, but that's a different issue for a
different day. But Iran's death by a thousand cuts strategy
backfired as the US refuses nuclear Roulette you know they
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ran now is just you know, they're just lashing out.
Whoever is remotely in charge of this, nobody knows who
it is is. They're just lashing out indiscriminately at every
country in the region. The only country that that I
don't think that they've hit yet is Lebton, but I
wouldn't expect anything different than that. Now I do have
some information to pass on. Russia apparently have been sharing
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intelligence with Iran on the location of US forces in
the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back,
according to a new report. I do know for a
fact that this has been dealt with. That's all I'm
going to say on that issue. My sources are very
rock solid on this. I have multiple sources confirming that
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Vladimir Putin himself has said he's going to stop. What
he wanted in return is we've been providing intel to
Ukraine at different points, although I think the President is
getting pretty disgusted with both sides of that conflict in Europe.
Once an end to it. An Iranian woman who was
partially blinded by Iranian guards just ripped into Kamala Harris
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for supporting the regime. Now, this Iranian woman who lost
her eye after she was shot by the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard during the Women Life Freedom protests in twenty twenty two,
was slamming the former presidential candidate former Vice president Kamala
Harris over her response, I mean, how stupid when you
look at it in retrospect, how pathetically weak was Obama,
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Biden and Kamala. In the case of Biden and Kamala, don't.
Don't you know, Linda, you know, ask me a question
about something you want to do. Go ahead, ask anything.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Sean, I want to talk about that subject that I
want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Don't ask me.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Could be so many things.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's true. Ask me another question, don't.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Sean, I want, I want to eat, to eat sugar.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Don't already on the northern Israeli border, and I wonder
what is your message to Hesbala and its backer Iran.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Don't don't don't, don't.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Don't come across the border. Don't escalate this war.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
To Iran in this moment.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Don't don't.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What basically happened was they sat in a room and
they thought, what word could he remember to say? Okay,
this one has four letters. He should be able to
manage this. Give him this one and that's what he
held on to.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But that explains him how to explain Kamalo?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Are you kidding me? I think Biden might be smarter
than her, even if he does have Alzheimer's a dementia,
good greeed.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
B that is that is really called. Look, I know
a lot of people are rightly concerned over the price
of gas. Let me let me give you a prediction
if they think this war is going to go on
between four and six weeks. Where now wrapping up week one.
I mean, I can't believe it's only been a week
because I've been so immersed twenty four to seven in
this I don't know about euland I am wiped out.
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I'm tired, exhausted.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It's I mean, first of all, it's horrible to watch
this kind of news.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
There's so much everybody because I'm worried about it all
the time. I can't not worry. I just like I'm concerned.
I'm constantly watching the news, I'm constantly engaged. I'm constantly
checking you know, websites, I'm constantly getting news updates. I'm
constantly making phone calls because I don't want any American
to get hurt. All right, Yeah, so there is a
disruption in terms of the free flow of oil at
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market prices. And thank god the President got ahead of
the Venezuelan situation. Over one hundred million barrels they have
given the US already. I would imagine maybe one of
the first things that happens when this conflict does come
to an end. And this piece in the region, Well, Hannity,
you said the Trump doctrine, there's no boots on the ground. Well, though,
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there will be boots on the ground, and they're going
to be people that are there to get up and
running the oil industry in Iran. It's an oil rich
nation for the purpose of helping the Ranium people survive
and for the purpose of hopefully paying back the United
States the costs of their liberation. And if you wanted
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just a little reminder, I mean, all right, so gas
went well below in some cases below two dollars of
gallons in a lot of states, but you know, well
below three dollars a gallon. You know, remember when a
guy named Joe Biden was president and the Democratic media
is howling, oh, gas prices. This is like the big
story now about Donald Trump. Gas prices gas prices. Gas prices,
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you know, because a week ago we ordered our military
to begin liberating Iran, and that impacts the Straits of
hor Moves well known for as a passageway for trade
with the oil industry. National average for a gallon of
gasoline national average today is three dollars and thirty two
cents a gallon. It's about up thirty cents since the
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first shots were fired. You want some perspective, I'll give
you perspective. That's my job to give you perspective. Anybody
remember gas prices to Joe Biden, you know, ever, without
any involvement in any US war, national average for a
gallon of regular regular gasoline, regular gas not high. I
remember I'd fill up my tank. I'd be so pissed off,
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you know, I still even though I remember the days
when I lived paychecked the paycheck. That's like I can't
even explain it. It's like etched in my mind. I
get infuriated when you know a gallon of gas is
this high. But average a regular gasoline was five dollars
and three cents in June of twenty twenty two. Joe Biden,
you know that's according to the US Energy Information Administration.
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In the second week of June of twenty two, the
average price hit a record five dollars and eleven cents.
When Biden took office, the national average was two thirty
nine a gallon or as Kamala said, well that's just
the price of democracy. Unbelievable. Now, the unemployment numbers came
out today and people said, these numbers are terrible, except
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when you actually read the entire report. The number of
people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by a
whopping four hundred and seventy seven thousand to four point
four million in February. I mean, in other words, what
the survey is saying is the number of people employed
part time for economic reasons decreased by fourner in seventy
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seven to four point four million. These individuals would have
preferred full time employment. They were working part time because
their hours had been reduced, so they were unable to
find full time jobs. So, in other words, when you
actually look at it, the number of discouraged workers, a
subset that marginally attached who you know, believed to be
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that no jobs were available, decreased by one hundred and
nine thousand in February to three hundred and sixty six thousand.
This report is nothing like the way it's being portrayed.
Why do I have to be the economist for people
in the stupid, lazy legacy media mob. They're so lazy
it really pisses me off. All right, So on some
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of the other news here. It's still hard to comprehend
in my mind's eye that this has been going on
less than a week. I mean, I remember last weekend
and I remember turning on the TV. I had not
fallen asleep, and when this war broke out and I
start watching the coverage, I was in touch with my
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colleagues at Fox, in touch with people in Congress and
the Senate and the House, and in touch with friends,
in touch with other people, sources, if you will, and
it's it's it just has. I didn't go to bed
that morning until noon. I'd been up the previous whole day,
and then called into Fox and Friends on Saturday at
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like six point thirty in the morning, and I was
texting with people like John Fetterman and Lindsey Graham, and
I said, Hey, any chance you can do hit on
Fox and Friends? And they did, and they had great coverage,
and I think Fox's coverage by far has been the
best and anyway, So then I went and I did
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two hours on Saturday night, and it's there's no other
place I want to be at moments like this than
on the air, because otherwise I'm watching it. Oh, and
I have too much to say, but I also want
to hear from other smart people, you know. Lindsey Graham
put out a tweet in response to the President putting
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out his truth post, which is there will be no
deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. After that and the
selection of a great and acceptable leader. Leaders, we and
many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners
will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink
of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than
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ever before. Iran will have a great future, a RAN
great again. No, it's Lindsey gran that had that hat
made up. I actually have one. Maybe you know what
we should do, Lin, And it's autographed by President Trump.
Lindsey got that and I said, get me one of those.
And I said, if you can't get the President to
sign it, he sent it to me and I have
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a make a Ran Great Again hat signed by President Trump.
I can maybe we should auction it off for charity.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, let's auction it off for the people of Iran.
We'll find a good group.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And what about the Tunnel to Towers Foundation? We just
mentioned them. I'm actually doing an event with them in
March in the Free State of Florida. Why would anyone
ever want to go? What's up?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is March?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I know I'm doing later this month. Hello, hello to
you the President. By the way, I'm not going to
deviate too much off of you know, top of Gate
today because it's so front and center in people's mind.
President is reminding everybody to Save America Act. This is critical.
All we're asking is that people show proof of citizenship
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in order to vote, and that everybody have a voter ID.
And then we're gonna you know that mail in ballots
have to stop because it opens itself up for corruption. Now,
both parties have bitterly complained about election integrity, and in
many cases rightly so. And the frustrating part is Democrats
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don't want election into integrity because, like the President said,
you know, no men in women's sports, no transgender mutilation,
surgery for children. Did you see what your attorney, former
Attorney general in New York had to say. She's going
to try and force hospitals to do this, you know,
gender affirming care for kids, whether they want to do
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it or not. Shouldn't be able to force a doctor
to perform an abortion if they don't believe in abortion.
You shouldn't be able to force a doctor to do
these gender surgeries on children. It's life altering. You just
shouldn't be able to do it. Telling you we.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Should make them go in and see what these surgeries
are and talk to the kids that have de transitioned
before they make those rulings and hear their testimonies, and
maybe then they would know a thing or two.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That makes too much sense. You're asking government to be
too common sense, a goal that's never going to happen.
Absolutely no, I mean, I think you're right, it would
be a smart thing to do. I mean, I think
for example, anybody before they got an abortion, if they saw,
if they saw what actually an abortion was. I mean,
they don't want people to even get an ultrasound because
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they don't want or they turned the volume down so
they don't hear the heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
When I first came on board with you, you used to
do this, We probably should do it again. We used
to bring on the show Survivors. It was the first
time I had ever met someone that had survived an
abortion and what they have to go through and what
their lives are like because somebody tried to I don't know,
cut their spinal cord or their neck or you know,
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burn them with saline solution. That's a reality.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So many women that have had abortions. I've interviewed many
over the years, and the number of women that regret
it the rest of their lives is staggering. They regret it.
They just simply wish they didn't do it, They didn't
get sucked into.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Because they're not given the option. Nobody ever talks to
them about the support and the agencies and the organizations
that will help you, some of them through the first
year of the child's life with everything you need. And
not to mention the fact how many people can have
children and would adopt that baby and give it a
wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know, in nineteen seventy seven, let me give you
a little history lesson you know that Jimmy Carter, this
is Liz Peak who wrote this, Uh, Jimmy Carter told
the American people. Remember he gave his is now infamous
speech from the Oval Office telling Americans to lower the
thermostat and to wear sweaters. I mean, like, really, what
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we have to change our lifestyle because you have You know,
he was in the beginnings of this climate alarmist religious cult.
You know, if you go back in the seventies, you
can find the covers of Time and Newsweek the next
ice Age is coming. And then it was the Earth
is going to burn to a crisp and we're all
going to die. And then neither one of these predictions
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ever turned out to be true. And then it became well,
just generic climate change. If it snows a lot, climate change,
if it doesn't snow at all, climate change, if it's cold,
climate change, if it's not cold, climate change. And if
there's a lot of hurricanes one year climate change, if
there's not a lot of hurricanes. You get the point.
But Carter told America that the world was running out
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of oil. Now Iran is proving once again that oil
is not only still here, but it is critical. You know,
Rush used to always talk about the free flow of
oil at market prices. Now we're going to have a
slight disruption period of time, but at the end of
the day, I think one of the best geopolitical wins
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for the United States is is we're going to have
a say in terms of Iranian oil. By the way,
the shadow fleet under fire, Iran straight shut down could
squeeze Russia's war chest and China's oil lifeline. One of
the untold stories about this entire conflict. If you look
at the ballistic missile weapons systems in Iran, if you
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look at the the air defense systems in Iran, if
you look at their other if you look at the
ships that they they were floating at sea that are
now at the bottom of the ocean, you know, all
of this is Irani. All of this Iranian weaponry is
Chinese and Russian made. It's not it's not their own ingenuity.
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They just bought it by, you know, starving their own
people and taking oil money and selling oil at low
prices to our top geopolitical foes and making all this money.
Now America will have a relationship of partnership with the
next the next generation of Iranian leaders, and that that
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benefit for them goes away. And they won't be arming
the Middle East knowing that the Iranians were fomenting terror
throughout the entire region. You know, if Tehran has always
been the fear that they'll mine the Straits of Hormuz,
where a significant percentage of the world's oil passes through
each and every day. Anyway, but Russia and China, if
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I'm them, and I'm looking at America's intelligence gathering, and
I'm looking at a America's military might, and I'm looking
at the success of Operation Midnight Hammer, and I'm looking
at the success of Operation Epic Fury, and I'm looking
at they penetrated our defenses that easily that they're probably
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in a little bit of a state of shock because
they know that they can't mess with the US military.
You know, the we are establishing total dominance over Iran,
and frankly, we've shown the world are our military capabilities
here and on a very high level. There is an
interesting story if you're if you want the backstory about
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how the Supreme leader Ali Hamani. You know, of course
he thinks he went to meet seventy two virgins and
Allah in Heaven didn't happen. Who was it? The other
Day that said, he's oh. Senator Kennedy that said, yeah,
he's rotting. You know, in hell, may he rotten pieces.
You know, you say rest in peace. He said rotten pieces,
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which is pretty funny. Israel used a powerful ballistic missile
that actually flew to the edge of space and then
plummeted to Earth and then blasted Iran's unsuspecting supreme leader.
And you know, the forty plus henchmen last Saturday called
the Blue Sparrows, a missile that can fly two and
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forty miles leaves the Earth's atmosphere before crashing down. That
was what was used by Israel. I don't know why
we have Executive Order twelve three three three. I don't
think it's constitutional. Number one, I don't think it's appropriate.
Number two, Why would you It's perfectly okay to kill
innocent people in the course of war. And meanwhile, you know,
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the left would argue that America has no business targeting
you know, the worst of the worst, these mass murdering
killers and leaders like Ali Hamani. It's just insane. I mean,
you take the head of the just knock off the
head of the snake and you win. But anyway, so
Israeli fighter jets launched Blue sparrow the missile. Booster rockets
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then send the missile out of the Earth's atmosphere, making
it travel further and more difficult to intercept. And then
the warhead separates from the booster rocket, locks onto the target.
The missile re enters the atmosphere and then strikes the target.
That's how they got how many I mean the sophistication,
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you know, and I've said this forever, the next generation
of weaponry, We're not going to be fighting wars on
battlefields anymore. It's not going to happen. And anyway, that's
how they destroyed Ali Hamani. They've also now the Israeli
IDF forces announced today that they destroyed the former leaders
underground bunker in Tehran, which means they knew where that
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was too, which means that even if he was hiding
in his bunker, they probably would have got him there.
But they had been apparently following him for at least
a month. Between US and Israeli intelligence and the Masad,
and of course obviously our CIA senkam Moran's ballistic missile
attacks of down ninety percent. Thank goodness Trump. By the way,
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I give him a lot of credit. He's now demanding
a pardon from net and Yahoo. I heard he from
my sources. He just absolutely tore into the Israeli President
Isaac Herzog called him a disgrace for failing to follow
his previous calls to pardon at Yahoo. Do you know
what this this ten year trial is all about cigars
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and bugs, bunny, That's how insignificant this is. And this
is a wartime prime minister who's saving the future of Israel,
and this is the thanks you get. And they were
putting him during Operation Midnight Hammer, during the Israeli part
of it, he'd have to spend half his day in
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a freaking court room. Tehrana eyewitnesses were revealing life after Hamani.
I want them gone, even at the cost of my
own life. I mean, the greatest moment, in my view,
has happened in one sense, but also the greater moment
is going to be the outcome of all of this,
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when we see the Iranian people taking to the streets
in celebration that their country has been liberated. Now it's
going to be in their hands, their future, their destiny
will be in their hands, hopefully guided with the help
of the United States of America. Here's a funny story
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that with all these Iranian you know ships being just decimated,
over thirty of them at this point, it's less than
a week. Apparently, there was an Iranian ship off the
coast of Sri Lanka. It had two hundred and eight
crew members on board from an Iranian ship a day
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after US strike you know, was able to sink a frigate. Anyway,
the Sri Lankan president announced their decision to assist the
Iranian vessel to save lives. After detailed discussions with all parties,
Sri Lanka decided to assist the Iranian vessel and the
people like keep the ship, can we please stay here?
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But we don't want to go back. Then Iranians women's
soccer fans shows support for Trump as the team appears
to pivot on the national anthem stands and they wouldn't
stand for their own national anthem. I don't know if
you saw that. That was a pretty spectacular moment too, Yeah,
I did.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
That was pretty cool. Eight hundred nine four one shown
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Fake News CNN accused of pushing pro Iran regime propaganda
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(00:24):
network said it appeared that daily life was continuing despite
the ongoing war. Senior international correspondent, I never heard of
this person. I can't even read riek. Somebody said during
a segment that all the shelves and shops are stocked
and even with fresh things. As he casually held up
(00:44):
a cup of coffee. Fuel seems readily available, and you
just don't see any degree of panic anywhere. Well, because
people have hope for a better future. The Assistant Secretary
of State for Global Public Affairs still and Johnson slammed
this idiot's comments. DNN appears to now be doing straight
(01:05):
up pro Iran regime propaganda because someone gave this guy
a cup of coffee, he writes on X, which I
thought was fairly funny. The White House has given an
update on the uranium war in the timeline. White House
Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said she wouldn't get ahead of
the President on broadcasting any timelines, but added, what I
(01:29):
will tell you is what the President has already laid
out the achievable objectives of Operation Epic Fury. We expect
the last four to six weeks we are well on
our way to achieving those objectives. The President also said
we were ahead of the expected timeline. Then Levitt laid
out the objectives and where they stood. Annihilating Iran's navy.
(01:52):
We've sunk more than thirty vessels and ships, the navy
is now deemed combat ineffective, and taking out the ballistic
missile threat that a RAM posed to the US and
our troops and bases in the region. The US military
has done a tremendous job at achieving that objectives thus far,
and just six days, not even a week, and just
(02:14):
six days in the retaliatory ballistic missile strikes from Iran
are now down ninety percent, of course, ensuring that Iran
can never obtain a nuclear weapon as well and significantly
weakening their proxies in the region, which we know, are
responsible for the deaths of Americans, and we've seen Hiszballah
(02:34):
and the Huti's hardly putting up a fight over the
course of the last six days that I know did
surprise the Israelis, and the Israelis have to expect and
anticipate the worst, and they thought there'd be more more
support from the proxies of Iran, but the leadership was
wiped out in the first thirty seconds. Who are they
(02:56):
going to take orders from, where are they going to
get their weapon from? Etc. The President now issued a
warning to what is left of the Iranian government on
truth social you know, and we'll get into this later
in the program that I don't know if you've heard
about this. They have a new foreign minister, Linda, and
he says we're ready for US troops if they attack.
(03:19):
Maybe he's not watching, you know. Pretty much every military
site be obliterated in front of his eyes. But nobody
knows who he is, because this guy would be like
the fiftieth choice, maybe the hundredths. Well think about it.
I mean, in the initial thirty seconds, they took out
the supreme leader Ali Hamani. He's dead and all of
(03:41):
his henchmen his top leadership, and we learned today that
they did it by, you know, purposely Donald Trump. They
were following him on truth social and it was through
deception and post the President Trump was making that showed
that he was nowhere near thinking about going into the conflict.
That was done apparently on purpose, which is smart to do.
(04:04):
And then, of course the Supreme Council was leading is
meeting eighty what seven and eighty eight members, whatever the
number is, and they're in the middle of voting for
the next Supreme Leader and they all got wiped out.
Nobody knows who's in charge of anything at this point,
but the President demanding and issuing a warning what is
(04:24):
left of this government that there will be no deal
with Iran except unconditional surrender. After that, the selection of
a great and acceptable leader, and the President's right to
demand this. This is costing this country billions and billions
of dollars. Now, I expect knowing the Trump doctrine as
well as I do, and I am tired of the dumb,
(04:47):
ignorant people that have no understanding of President Trump, that
interpret in spite of his first term, in spite of
Operation Midnight Hammer. You know, they have no concept of
what Donald Trump's doctrine is. Yes, he believes in no
forever wars, no boots on the ground, but you can't
exclude it because for strategic reasons you can. I mean,
(05:08):
at some point, I would imagine Americans are going to
be on the ground in Iran helping them extract their
oil and get their economy back in place. But I'm
pretty certain also that the US will insist that they
pay for their own liberation. And that's a question for
another day, when all the fighting is done and this
entire regime has been defeated. Still reports that the Kurds
(05:33):
are beginning a process of arming the Iranian citizens, the
hundreds of thousands that had taken to the streets, remember
tens of thousands of them were killed, and then they
will be able if there's any holdovers from the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard or local police or I don't know, Kuds
(05:55):
forces somewhere, although the Cuds, the head of the Kuds
forces has been a limit also that they'll have an
ability to defend themselves. Trump demanding capitulation a day after
also insisting a direct role and picking this successor to
Ali Hamani and the you know, the president, now brushing
(06:18):
off reports that Hamany's fifty six year old son could
take over, calling him a lightweight and an unacceptable option,
to say the least. This guy's in no position. By
the way, would you want to be selected? I'd choose you, Linda.
You're going to be the next leader of Iran. We're
going to call you Supreme Leader. Linda.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I'm calling for mini skirts and high heels. Like you know,
back in the seventies, Iran was beautiful. Back then, the
people were having a wonderful time.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
The Persian culture history phenomen amazing, phenomenal. I mean, there
are some online Iranian commentators and we had one on
the show. What was her name, Arika? I'm sorry, Elka Lebot.
I mean she's great and she has who's that other
(07:06):
person that you told me.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Was on? Another one has been on. They all have
experiences there and they talk about what it was.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Before and and how western that they were. Uh. Now,
I would make an argument that the Shah did not
handle things well, but that's a different issue for a
different day. But Iran's death by a thousand cuts strategy
backfired as the US refuses nuclear Roulette you know they
(07:40):
ran now is just you know, they're just lashing out.
Whoever is remotely in charge of this, nobody knows who
it is is. They're just lashing out indiscriminately at every
country in the region. The only country that that I
don't think that they've hit yet is Lebton, but I
wouldn't expect anything different than that. Now I do have
some information to pass on. Russia apparently have been sharing
(08:02):
intelligence with Iran on the location of US forces in
the Middle East in an attempt to help Tehran fight back,
according to a new report. I do know for a
fact that this has been dealt with. That's all I'm
going to say on that issue. My sources are very
rock solid on this. I have multiple sources confirming that
(08:24):
Vladimir Putin himself has said he's going to stop. What
he wanted in return is we've been providing intel to
Ukraine at different points, although I think the President is
getting pretty disgusted with both sides of that conflict in Europe.
Once an end to it. An Iranian woman who was
partially blinded by Iranian guards just ripped into Kamala Harris
(08:49):
for supporting the regime. Now, this Iranian woman who lost
her eye after she was shot by the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard during the Women Life Freedom protests in twenty twenty two,
was slamming the former presidential candidate former Vice president Kamala
Harris over her response, I mean, how stupid when you
look at it in retrospect, how pathetically weak was Obama,
(09:12):
Biden and Kamala. In the case of Biden and Kamala, don't.
Don't you know, Linda, you know, ask me a question
about something you want to do. Go ahead, ask anything.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Sean, I want to talk about that subject that I
want to talk about.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Don't ask me.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Could be so many things.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's true. Ask me another question, don't.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Sean, I want, I want to eat, to eat sugar.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Don't already on the northern Israeli border, and I wonder
what is your message to Hesbala and its backer Iran.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Don't don't don't, don't.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Don't come across the border. Don't escalate this war.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It's nice.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
To Iran in this moment.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Don't don't.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
What basically happened was they sat in a room and
they thought, what word could he remember to say? Okay,
this one has four letters. He should be able to
manage this. Give him this one and that's what he
held on to.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But that explains him how to explain Kamalo?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Are you kidding me? I think Biden might be smarter
than her, even if he does have Alzheimer's a dementia,
good greeed.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
B that is that is really called. Look, I know
a lot of people are rightly concerned over the price
of gas. Let me let me give you a prediction
if they think this war is going to go on
between four and six weeks. Where now wrapping up week one.
I mean, I can't believe it's only been a week
because I've been so immersed twenty four to seven in
this I don't know about euland I am wiped out.
(10:55):
I'm tired, exhausted.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It's I mean, first of all, it's horrible to watch
this kind of news.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
There's so much everybody because I'm worried about it all
the time. I can't not worry. I just like I'm concerned.
I'm constantly watching the news, I'm constantly engaged. I'm constantly
checking you know, websites, I'm constantly getting news updates. I'm
constantly making phone calls because I don't want any American
to get hurt. All right, Yeah, so there is a
disruption in terms of the free flow of oil at
(11:22):
market prices. And thank god the President got ahead of
the Venezuelan situation. Over one hundred million barrels they have
given the US already. I would imagine maybe one of
the first things that happens when this conflict does come
to an end. And this piece in the region, Well, Hannity,
you said the Trump doctrine, there's no boots on the ground. Well, though,
(11:43):
there will be boots on the ground, and they're going
to be people that are there to get up and
running the oil industry in Iran. It's an oil rich
nation for the purpose of helping the Ranium people survive
and for the purpose of hopefully paying back the United
States the costs of their liberation. And if you wanted
(12:06):
just a little reminder, I mean, all right, so gas
went well below in some cases below two dollars of
gallons in a lot of states, but you know, well
below three dollars a gallon. You know, remember when a
guy named Joe Biden was president and the Democratic media
is howling, oh, gas prices. This is like the big
story now about Donald Trump. Gas prices gas prices. Gas prices,
(12:28):
you know, because a week ago we ordered our military
to begin liberating Iran, and that impacts the Straits of
hor Moves well known for as a passageway for trade
with the oil industry. National average for a gallon of
gasoline national average today is three dollars and thirty two
cents a gallon. It's about up thirty cents since the
(12:51):
first shots were fired. You want some perspective, I'll give
you perspective. That's my job to give you perspective. Anybody
remember gas prices to Joe Biden, you know, ever, without
any involvement in any US war, national average for a
gallon of regular regular gasoline, regular gas not high. I
remember I'd fill up my tank. I'd be so pissed off,
(13:15):
you know, I still even though I remember the days
when I lived paychecked the paycheck. That's like I can't
even explain it. It's like etched in my mind. I
get infuriated when you know a gallon of gas is
this high. But average a regular gasoline was five dollars
and three cents in June of twenty twenty two. Joe Biden,
you know that's according to the US Energy Information Administration.
(13:38):
In the second week of June of twenty two, the
average price hit a record five dollars and eleven cents.
When Biden took office, the national average was two thirty
nine a gallon or as Kamala said, well that's just
the price of democracy. Unbelievable. Now, the unemployment numbers came
out today and people said, these numbers are terrible, except
(14:00):
when you actually read the entire report. The number of
people employed part time for economic reasons decreased by a
whopping four hundred and seventy seven thousand to four point
four million in February. I mean, in other words, what
the survey is saying is the number of people employed
part time for economic reasons decreased by fourner in seventy
(14:23):
seven to four point four million. These individuals would have
preferred full time employment. They were working part time because
their hours had been reduced, so they were unable to
find full time jobs. So, in other words, when you
actually look at it, the number of discouraged workers, a
subset that marginally attached who you know, believed to be
(14:46):
that no jobs were available, decreased by one hundred and
nine thousand in February to three hundred and sixty six thousand.
This report is nothing like the way it's being portrayed.
Why do I have to be the economist for people
in the stupid, lazy legacy media mob. They're so lazy
it really pisses me off. All right, So on some
(15:06):
of the other news here. It's still hard to comprehend
in my mind's eye that this has been going on
less than a week. I mean, I remember last weekend
and I remember turning on the TV. I had not
fallen asleep, and when this war broke out and I
start watching the coverage, I was in touch with my
(15:28):
colleagues at Fox, in touch with people in Congress and
the Senate and the House, and in touch with friends,
in touch with other people, sources, if you will, and
it's it's it just has. I didn't go to bed
that morning until noon. I'd been up the previous whole day,
and then called into Fox and Friends on Saturday at
(15:50):
like six point thirty in the morning, and I was
texting with people like John Fetterman and Lindsey Graham, and
I said, Hey, any chance you can do hit on
Fox and Friends? And they did, and they had great coverage,
and I think Fox's coverage by far has been the
best and anyway, So then I went and I did
(16:11):
two hours on Saturday night, and it's there's no other
place I want to be at moments like this than
on the air, because otherwise I'm watching it. Oh, and
I have too much to say, but I also want
to hear from other smart people, you know. Lindsey Graham
put out a tweet in response to the President putting
(16:33):
out his truth post, which is there will be no
deal with Iran except unconditional surrender. After that and the
selection of a great and acceptable leader. Leaders, we and
many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners
will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink
of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than
(16:56):
ever before. Iran will have a great future, a RAN
great again. No, it's Lindsey gran that had that hat
made up. I actually have one. Maybe you know what
we should do, Lin, And it's autographed by President Trump.
Lindsey got that and I said, get me one of those.
And I said, if you can't get the President to
sign it, he sent it to me and I have
(17:19):
a make a Ran Great Again hat signed by President Trump.
I can maybe we should auction it off for charity.
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Yeah, let's auction it off for the people of Iran.
We'll find a good group.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
And what about the Tunnel to Towers Foundation? We just
mentioned them. I'm actually doing an event with them in
March in the Free State of Florida. Why would anyone
ever want to go? What's up?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
It is March?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I know I'm doing later this month. Hello, hello to
you the President. By the way, I'm not going to
deviate too much off of you know, top of Gate
today because it's so front and center in people's mind.
President is reminding everybody to Save America Act. This is critical.
All we're asking is that people show proof of citizenship
(18:08):
in order to vote, and that everybody have a voter ID.
And then we're gonna you know that mail in ballots
have to stop because it opens itself up for corruption. Now,
both parties have bitterly complained about election integrity, and in
many cases rightly so. And the frustrating part is Democrats
(18:29):
don't want election into integrity because, like the President said,
you know, no men in women's sports, no transgender mutilation,
surgery for children. Did you see what your attorney, former
Attorney general in New York had to say. She's going
to try and force hospitals to do this, you know,
gender affirming care for kids, whether they want to do
(18:53):
it or not. Shouldn't be able to force a doctor
to perform an abortion if they don't believe in abortion.
You shouldn't be able to force a doctor to do
these gender surgeries on children. It's life altering. You just
shouldn't be able to do it. Telling you we.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Should make them go in and see what these surgeries
are and talk to the kids that have de transitioned
before they make those rulings and hear their testimonies, and
maybe then they would know a thing or two.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That makes too much sense. You're asking government to be
too common sense, a goal that's never going to happen.
Absolutely no, I mean, I think you're right, it would
be a smart thing to do. I mean, I think
for example, anybody before they got an abortion, if they saw,
if they saw what actually an abortion was. I mean,
they don't want people to even get an ultrasound because
(19:49):
they don't want or they turned the volume down so
they don't hear the heartbeat.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
When I first came on board with you, you used to
do this, We probably should do it again. We used
to bring on the show Survivors. It was the first
time I had ever met someone that had survived an
abortion and what they have to go through and what
their lives are like because somebody tried to I don't know,
cut their spinal cord or their neck or you know,
(20:14):
burn them with saline solution. That's a reality.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
So many women that have had abortions. I've interviewed many
over the years, and the number of women that regret
it the rest of their lives is staggering. They regret it.
They just simply wish they didn't do it, They didn't
get sucked into.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Because they're not given the option. Nobody ever talks to
them about the support and the agencies and the organizations
that will help you, some of them through the first
year of the child's life with everything you need. And
not to mention the fact how many people can have
children and would adopt that baby and give it a
wonderful life.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You know, in nineteen seventy seven, let me give you
a little history lesson you know that Jimmy Carter, this
is Liz Peak who wrote this, Uh, Jimmy Carter told
the American people. Remember he gave his is now infamous
speech from the Oval Office telling Americans to lower the
thermostat and to wear sweaters. I mean, like, really, what
(21:17):
we have to change our lifestyle because you have You know,
he was in the beginnings of this climate alarmist religious cult.
You know, if you go back in the seventies, you
can find the covers of Time and Newsweek the next
ice Age is coming. And then it was the Earth
is going to burn to a crisp and we're all
going to die. And then neither one of these predictions
(21:40):
ever turned out to be true. And then it became well,
just generic climate change. If it snows a lot, climate change,
if it doesn't snow at all, climate change, if it's cold,
climate change, if it's not cold, climate change. And if
there's a lot of hurricanes one year climate change, if
there's not a lot of hurricanes. You get the point.
But Carter told America that the world was running out
(22:03):
of oil. Now Iran is proving once again that oil
is not only still here, but it is critical. You know,
Rush used to always talk about the free flow of
oil at market prices. Now we're going to have a
slight disruption period of time, but at the end of
the day, I think one of the best geopolitical wins
(22:24):
for the United States is is we're going to have
a say in terms of Iranian oil. By the way,
the shadow fleet under fire, Iran straight shut down could
squeeze Russia's war chest and China's oil lifeline. One of
the untold stories about this entire conflict. If you look
at the ballistic missile weapons systems in Iran, if you
(22:47):
look at the the air defense systems in Iran, if
you look at their other if you look at the
ships that they they were floating at sea that are
now at the bottom of the ocean, you know, all
of this is Irani. All of this Iranian weaponry is
Chinese and Russian made. It's not it's not their own ingenuity.
(23:09):
They just bought it by, you know, starving their own
people and taking oil money and selling oil at low
prices to our top geopolitical foes and making all this money.
Now America will have a relationship of partnership with the
next the next generation of Iranian leaders, and that that
(23:32):
benefit for them goes away. And they won't be arming
the Middle East knowing that the Iranians were fomenting terror
throughout the entire region. You know, if Tehran has always
been the fear that they'll mine the Straits of Hormuz,
where a significant percentage of the world's oil passes through
each and every day. Anyway, but Russia and China, if
(23:54):
I'm them, and I'm looking at America's intelligence gathering, and
I'm looking at a America's military might, and I'm looking
at the success of Operation Midnight Hammer, and I'm looking
at the success of Operation Epic Fury, and I'm looking
at they penetrated our defenses that easily that they're probably
(24:16):
in a little bit of a state of shock because
they know that they can't mess with the US military.
You know, the we are establishing total dominance over Iran,
and frankly, we've shown the world are our military capabilities
here and on a very high level. There is an
interesting story if you're if you want the backstory about
(24:39):
how the Supreme leader Ali Hamani. You know, of course
he thinks he went to meet seventy two virgins and
Allah in Heaven didn't happen. Who was it? The other
Day that said, he's oh. Senator Kennedy that said, yeah,
he's rotting. You know, in hell, may he rotten pieces.
You know, you say rest in peace. He said rotten pieces,
(25:02):
which is pretty funny. Israel used a powerful ballistic missile
that actually flew to the edge of space and then
plummeted to Earth and then blasted Iran's unsuspecting supreme leader.
And you know, the forty plus henchmen last Saturday called
the Blue Sparrows, a missile that can fly two and
(25:25):
forty miles leaves the Earth's atmosphere before crashing down. That
was what was used by Israel. I don't know why
we have Executive Order twelve three three three. I don't
think it's constitutional. Number one, I don't think it's appropriate.
Number two, Why would you It's perfectly okay to kill
innocent people in the course of war. And meanwhile, you know,
(25:48):
the left would argue that America has no business targeting
you know, the worst of the worst, these mass murdering
killers and leaders like Ali Hamani. It's just insane. I mean,
you take the head of the just knock off the
head of the snake and you win. But anyway, so
Israeli fighter jets launched Blue sparrow the missile. Booster rockets
(26:12):
then send the missile out of the Earth's atmosphere, making
it travel further and more difficult to intercept. And then
the warhead separates from the booster rocket, locks onto the target.
The missile re enters the atmosphere and then strikes the target.
That's how they got how many I mean the sophistication,
(26:33):
you know, and I've said this forever, the next generation
of weaponry, We're not going to be fighting wars on
battlefields anymore. It's not going to happen. And anyway, that's
how they destroyed Ali Hamani. They've also now the Israeli
IDF forces announced today that they destroyed the former leaders
underground bunker in Tehran, which means they knew where that
(26:56):
was too, which means that even if he was hiding
in his bunker, they probably would have got him there.
But they had been apparently following him for at least
a month. Between US and Israeli intelligence and the Masad,
and of course obviously our CIA senkam Moran's ballistic missile
attacks of down ninety percent. Thank goodness Trump. By the way,
(27:16):
I give him a lot of credit. He's now demanding
a pardon from net and Yahoo. I heard he from
my sources. He just absolutely tore into the Israeli President
Isaac Herzog called him a disgrace for failing to follow
his previous calls to pardon at Yahoo. Do you know
what this this ten year trial is all about cigars
(27:38):
and bugs, bunny, That's how insignificant this is. And this
is a wartime prime minister who's saving the future of Israel,
and this is the thanks you get. And they were
putting him during Operation Midnight Hammer, during the Israeli part
of it, he'd have to spend half his day in
(27:58):
a freaking court room. Tehrana eyewitnesses were revealing life after Hamani.
I want them gone, even at the cost of my
own life. I mean, the greatest moment, in my view,
has happened in one sense, but also the greater moment
is going to be the outcome of all of this,
(28:19):
when we see the Iranian people taking to the streets
in celebration that their country has been liberated. Now it's
going to be in their hands, their future, their destiny
will be in their hands, hopefully guided with the help
of the United States of America. Here's a funny story
(28:40):
that with all these Iranian you know ships being just decimated,
over thirty of them at this point, it's less than
a week. Apparently, there was an Iranian ship off the
coast of Sri Lanka. It had two hundred and eight
crew members on board from an Iranian ship a day
(29:02):
after US strike you know, was able to sink a frigate. Anyway,
the Sri Lankan president announced their decision to assist the
Iranian vessel to save lives. After detailed discussions with all parties,
Sri Lanka decided to assist the Iranian vessel and the
people like keep the ship, can we please stay here?
(29:24):
But we don't want to go back. Then Iranians women's
soccer fans shows support for Trump as the team appears
to pivot on the national anthem stands and they wouldn't
stand for their own national anthem. I don't know if
you saw that. That was a pretty spectacular moment too, Yeah,
I did.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
That was pretty cool. Eight hundred nine four one shown
this Friday. If you want to be a part of
the program, we got a lot coming up in the
course of the program, Steve Hilton. We also have Admiral
Robert Harward is going to join us, and remember Keith Hermanning.
I'm sorry that got Keith Kevin Kevin hermity. He was
(30:01):
held hostage for four and forty four days. He was
only twenty years old and that happened. He's going to
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