April 7, 2026 • 32 mins
Sean Hannity opens the hour with a high-stakes breakdown of the escalating confrontation with Iran, framing the moment as a final warning before decisive action. He walks listeners through the latest reports of Israeli and U.S. strikes, the collapsing state of Iran’s military infrastructure, and the pressure campaign surrounding Tehran’s uranium stockpile and the Strait of Hormuz. Hannity argues that the choice being presented is simple: abandon nuclear ambitions and stop threatening global stability, or face the consequences.
Throughout the hour, Sean leans into the broader argument that this is not just about one military conflict, but about preventing a terror regime from gaining permanent leverage over the free world. He also takes aim at the media and political class for what he sees as selective outrage, contrasting their criticism of Trump with years of silence over Iran’s support for terror. It’s a forceful, urgency-driven hour focused on deterrence, national security, and the cost of waiting too long.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All of you for being with us. Right down our
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Sean if you want to join us. I had fully
anticipated coming on the program and reporting that we are
five hours away from the deadline when President Trump has
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promised that this would be Bridge and power plant Day
and Infrastructure Day, and that's how I planned the program.
And as I've been following the news, you know, the
last hour and a half in the lead up to
the show today, I keep getting more and more updates
about what is happening, and it looks like both Israel
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and the US have already started conducting a round of
air strikes against more military targets on Irans, you know,
in different Iranian locations, including is a report US military
has conducted a new round of air strikes against military
targets on Iran's Krg Island. Explosions heard after the air
strikes carg Island early today. Ninety percent of Iranian oil
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exports processed and shipped from the island. Wall Street Journal
reported fifty sites were targeted during those strikes, which you know,
we're confined to military targets, but you know, not yet
really going after their full infrastructure. The IDF this report
from the Jerusalem Post warplanes targeting railways and a report
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that eight to ten bridges have already been taken out
by the IDF in a bid to make it easier
for Israeli and American forces to locate and destroy things
and the Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahu confirmed the IDF
strikes while adding that attacks against Iran are being conducted
with increased intensity. We are targeting the railways bridges used
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by the Revolutionary Guards. They use them to transport raw
materials for weapons and the operatives that attack US, the
US and other countries in the region. The IDF said
it struck eight bridge segments in several areas across Iran,
the military confirming that prior to the strikes that steps
were taken to mitigate harm to civilians. Later this afternoon.
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Just a short time ago, the IDF announced that it
had struck Iran's most central site for the production of
sonar systems and underwater detection systems and other reports. The
Israeli Air Force launched a wave of other attacks today,
killing two senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Tehran,
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the first strike killing Majid Khadami, the head of the
Intelligence Protection Organization of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and
the intelligence organization of the IRGC. A separate strike in
Tehran killed another top IRGC of fIF Yazdan Meir, who
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headed the IRGC Cuds Forces Clandestine Unit eight forty and
that has been implicated in kidnappings assassinations of figures outside
of Iran. The Israeli forces also hit targets at the
largest petrochemical plant, blowing up several airports used by the IRGC.
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Is fighting continued, despite you know, efforts for negotiations. Now
Axios reported it this was about two and a half
hours ago, that progress had been made the past twenty
four hours. And I got this report to last night
that some progress might have been made. And what Axios
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is reporting, I'll give you what they were reporting. I'll
keep my sources to myself for now. Iran sent a
counterproposal to the U. I love these people in their counterproposals.
They're great negotiators, but they're horrible at keeping their work.
This has been the history of Iran, and we always,
we always underestimate their capabilities, be it their nuclear capability,
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ballistic missile capability. Anyway, so I ran stupidly with just
hours left until this deadline is hit. You know they
I'm not sure what part of Midnight Hammer and epic
Fury they missed. Uh. When Donald Trump gives you a deadline,
usually the deadline kind of gets moved up a little bit,
just to create the element of surprise that that's just
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the way it works, and love and war and everything
in between. But anyway, while it was incompatible with the
US positions, the White House actually saw it as encouraging.
This is not complicated for the Iranians. If the Iranian
regime wants this conflict to end, there are two specific
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things they would have had to agree to open the
straight oh horror moves One. Two handover their sixty percent
enriched uranium they have. You know that they think. I
don't know why they think they have any leverage in
any direct talks. Now. One other source Wall Street Journal
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saying is that Iran cut off all direct communications with
the US after the President's vow on truth social to
destroy Iran's whole civilization if the country doesn't reach a
deal by eight pm Eastern time tonight, again less than
five hours away. The journal is Alexander Ward, adding talks
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with ceasefire mediators continue. Middle Eastern officials say the move
has temporarily complicated those efforts, but Trump sparked a lot
of anger and concerned. Well, I'm sorry that they got angry,
but you know something, I'm angry too. I'm angry that
they didn't take this deal. I'm angry that they have
caused the deaths of tens and tens of thousands of
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incalculable numbers because they use proxies to kill innocent men,
women and children. You know, I'm angry too what they
did on October seventh. I'm angry that they foment terran
have been fomenting terror in the Middle East and around
the world for decades now, for wopping forty seven years.
I'm angry at how they treat their own citizens. I'm
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angry seeing images of citizens surrounding what are known targets
right now as we speak. I'm angry at all of it.
But we have every right to go after the infrastructure
of Iran, and I'll get to that in a second.
You would think, you know, this is the most amazing
part of this. This is how corrupt and this is
why I guess I've been successful in my career thanks
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to all of you. I never forget that part. But
the other part of it is the legacy media never
has ever brought up the idea of war crimes when
it comes to Iranians targeting as they have been day
after day, night after night, densely populated cities in Israel
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and other parts of the world and targeting civilians at
all times, that is their number one strategy. Or allowing
in Gaza schools to be used as shields. They're now
using their people to surround known targets that the president
is laid out for them. I guess with the promise
of martyrdom. I don't know. We also have an update
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US Israel airstrikes decimating Iran's repressive secret police. This is
a big deal. There are five thousand members of Iran
security forces. They apparently have been killed another whopping twenty
one thousand wounded. Now why would Donald Trump move earlier?
Thought he gave them a deadline. Okay, he did give
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them a deadline, and originally the deadline was ten days.
And the fact that they're futzing around with you know,
with some false, you know, delusional mindset that they're in
any position to negotiate. They're not. This was very straightforward.
It wasn't complicated. Open the straight a hormone for the
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free flow of oil at market prices, and stop holding
the world's markets hostage. It's the lifeblood of the world's economy.
It's about twenty percent of the world's oil supply. I
find it fascinating that other countries in the region are
very cleverly now partnering with Israel to build pipelines so
that this situation won't ever arise again because of the
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close proximity to the Uranians. Although I'm not sure in
the end, long term if this regime will survive whatever's
left of the regime. We're now with the fourth and
fifthier of it. You know, as I said on TV
last night, as I sat on this radio programming yesterday,
I really hoped that they would come to a smart,
negotiated settlement. There were two main things they had to do. Immediately,
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open the STRAIGHTAHR moves, allow the free flow of oil
at market prices. And number two, the only other thing
they had to do was take the sixty percent enriched uranium,
some thousand pounds of it or foreigner and sixty kilograms
of it, whichever measurement you prefer. Linda doesn't like the
kilogram figure that I use, which could be used to
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make ten or eleven bombs handed over to the US
led America to extract it the way we did in Libya.
And guess what, your country stops getting bombed, you have
an opportunity to rebuild society, although I doubt this whatever
remaining parts of the regime would be smart enough to
build it in a way that actually gave rights to
their citizens, the very same people that today they are
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having surround you know, their power plant structures and other
you know, target mentioned targets to the president. Anyway, the
President has been urging the Iranian people to rise up
and take their government back for weeks now, and the
only thing standing in their way is fear of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces. But you know now that Israel
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in the US are targeting them. But anyway, report this
morning and Iran in ourn all of this is about
to change. A review of citizen reports and source material
found in the months since the war began, at least
one hundred and thirty sites tied to internal repression were
destroyed or hit. They include a lot of the buildings
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of both the police, Revolutionary Guard forces, compounds and other
security complexes involved in the repression of citizens. So they
are being weakened, and as the President mentioned yesterday the
Iranian people, there are attempts now to get arms into
the hands of the Iranian people, so hopefully they can
take their country back. We do have an update on
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the son of the now dead Supreme Leader who was
killed in the opening salvos of Epic Fury. And this
is the son that the Supreme Leader, Ali Hamani, never
wanted to replace him. This is the one that the
New York Posts reported was gay, which by the way,
is a death sentence in Iran. Bring brought up to
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a tall building. I mean, that was Linda. Did you
see we did a segment last night that General Solomani's
niece and grand niece living large in Los Angeles were
taken into custody. Did you see the skimpy outfits we
were showing them wearing last night, which, by the way,
I'm not judging them. I don't give a rip what
people wear. I don't care about that. My only point is,
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can you imagine if we send them back to Iran
and those pictures go viral when eventually one day the
Internet gets turned back on there? And why were they
living the high life in the US while simultaneously calling
America the Great Satan. They're living in the Great Satan.
And the niece and grand niece of the now dead
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General Solomani anyway back to the son of the Supreme
leader is quote unconscious, unable to be involved in any
decision making, according to the New York Post, and according
to an intelligence memo weeks after he was really injured.
He was injured in the opening salvo of this this
conflict and that killed his father and all his top deputies.
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Some reports claimed he suffered only a fractured foot and
minor injuries. Others suggested he was in a coma. But anyway,
he's not been seen since that initial strike on February
twenty eighth that killed his father and much of his
family and much of the top brass and top leadership
that had been in charge for the longest period of
time in Iran, and anyways, currently undergoing medical treatment for
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a severe condition. We apparently even know where he is.
It's about eighty seven miles south of tey Ran. Let's see.
Weight says, stay inside unless only of the utmost necessity
to leave. US. Israel intelligence reports, you know now confirming
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that the son of the former Supreme leader, the guy
we're told is the current Supreme leader. You know, we
don't know anything about him except that he's absolutely not
part of any decision making process, was not part of
any negotiations with Steve Whitcoff Jared Kushner, Iran's president warning
their economy is near full collapse. According to Iran International News,
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a deepening rifted at the top of the Islamic Republic
is now spilled into an unusually sharp confrontation, with the
president accusing senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders of unilateral actions
that have wrecked ceasefire prospects and pushed Iran towards disaster.
Too close to the presidential office. That apparently this tense
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exchange is going on, So you've got a power struggle
at the top, which I guess is fairly predictable. But
Iran's economy will not be able to withstand a prolonged
war for much longer that the full economic collapse is
inevitable under current conditions. It sounds like there might be
a couple of reasonable voices that have been trying to
talk some sense.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You have to be.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Really dumb, really really dumb, after being given every opportunity
before Midnight Hammer to come to a peace agreement and
not doing so. Okay, midnight happens, fourteen bunker buster bombs.
We take out so much of their ballistic missile air
defense systems, et cetera. Okay, that ends in twelve days.
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Then we discovered then we find out, yeah, they're bragging.
They have fourner and sixty kilograms of sixty percent enriched
uranium which can be enriched to weapons grade in less
than twelve days. We learned during this conflict that their
ballistic missile range was far longer than we originally thought. Okay,
now the president has a very short timeline. That's what
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precipitated Operation Epic Fury. But even before Epic Fury, they
were giving a given a timeline to choose piece. They
chose not to accept it. Now everything has been pretty
much out. Now they've been given a final timeline. You know,
it just shows you the degree of fanaticism and evil
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and radicalism, and now they're sending their own people to
what are known targets so that they will in all
likelihood be dead by the end of today, and they
don't care. And then reports that they're putting arms in
the hands of children, you know, to fight against the
infidels that of course would be us in Israel. Oh okay,
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this is a great regime that's not evil, though you
can't say that it's evil. No, the United States, according
to some as evil, and if God forbid, Donald Trump
actually talks to an evil regime in the language they understand.
This is unbelievably shocking. Eleven years of Donald Trump talking
this way, and it's shocking still. And I'm gonna bubble
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and fizz and melt like el Alca Seltzer in water.
It's such a it's so phony. I can't stand these people.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Alec Baldwin's favorite radio talk show host is on the
air right now, right mister Baldwin's sean Hennity by twenty
five till the top of the hour, or four hours
and twenty five minutes until the President has promised that
the whole civilization will die tonight unless then this will
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be a Bridge Night, an infrastructure night, and you know,
the President has been very clear.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
The truth is, according to reports, this is this military
effort has already started, and it doesn't. There seems to
be no indication that there is going to be any
type of deal. You know, I'm watching this guy, Broe
Connor on Fox News. You know this guy, Linda. I mean,
he's yeah, no, okay, let me tell you something. His
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arguments are stupid. There are dumb people. He goes, well,
American's died. What if? And you cannot you cannot ignore
what we've learned here. And there are people that will
put their head in the sand and they are willing
to gamble with our children's lives and our grandchildren's lives,
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and they don't want to neutralize a threat while we're
able to do it with the minimal amount of risk.
Every military effort has risk. I don't want to minimize that.
I don't want to minimize the loss of any one
person's life in any way. However, if this regime gets
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those nuclear weapons with those four nitred and sixty kilograms,
you don't like that measurement, but I do. Of sixty
percent enriched uranium less than twelve days weapons grade coupled
with longer range ballistic missiles that anybody knew, anybody thought
they had, and the idea that this regime that is
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killed tens and tens of thousands of na some people
number one state sponsor of terror. They have read nothing
but death, havoc, destruction in the entire region. They have
fomented terror around the world. And for those ignorant people
that somehow believe that it's okay to let them move
forward with their nuclear program. Now, even Obama, even Biden,
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even Kamala, even the Clintons, they all said Iran can
never have a nuclear weapon. They all said it. We've
played it repeatedly, and it doesn't seem to matter, and
Donald Trump stops it now all of a sudden. It's
a bad thing. The reality is neutralizing a future threat
shows that you have learned something from history. You've learned
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that if you can neutralize a threat, take it out.
Yes it's dangerous, Yes it is hard, there's nothing easy
about it. Yes it's temporary, but it's a lot better
dealing with it now then dealing with it at some
point in the future. I mean, it's so simple. This
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is common sense. And if the Democrats, radical Democrats, legacy
media mob, the weirdo isolationists that would never use American
American military mind until until you are forced to when
they have a nuclear weapon. Great, they get to hold
your children, your grandchildren hostage. And the sad part is
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in this is you'll never be able to calculate how
many lives potentially could be saved by the President realizing
this is an existential threat for our future, the world's future,
our children's future, your grandchildren's future. And I really I
have no patience for stupid people, because there are a
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lot of stupid, stupid people that are making a lot
of dumb commentary. You know, just like from the very beginning,
Donald Trump is doing the bidding of bb Netanyahu and Israel.
No he wasn't. Right now, they have ballistic missile range
capability that could reach Paris in London, They're twelve days
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away from enriching enough uranium as soon as they build
back their Richmond facilities. Especially if we didn't do anything
militarily now to prevent that from happening, they would be
able to do that in twelve days. That would be
a clear and present danger that would hold the world hostage,
and then they'd only continue to build that out. Now,
it's hard to make tough military decisions and national security decisions,
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but I am flabbergasted that people haven't learned a thing
from the last century. They haven't learned a single solitary
thing from history. Nothing. They just they just put their
head in the sand. Now let's deal with the latest
liberal talking point. It is liberal talking point. It's very,
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very simple and stupid. Donald Trump said the US would
target every Iranian bridge and power plant. Now we actually
have images on Fox News amazing the things that the
Iranian regime will let out and they have. Now they
are now forcing their citizens. You will never convince me
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that they're doing this voluntarily. They have people with Iranian
flags surrounding their power plants and the military targets. The
President Trump has stated unequivocally that he will be going
after And why would they do that? Explain that to me.
Why would they ever do that? Because they don't care
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about their own citizens. Those are the people they put
to death on a regular basis. Those are the women
that they give beatings to. If there his job is
not fully covering their head or God forbid, you know,
other more severe rules on dress code or not met.
You know, they could face the death penalty been slaughtering
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tens of thousands of their own people, you know. And
this hypocrisy really really irritates the hell out of me,
because here President Trump, just like Israel, we target military targets,
period and dissentence. And the President is not wrong when
he says when every bridge and power plant in Iran
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is taken out, that the whole civilization will die. And
it's going to take a hell of a lot to
bring it back. But it probably would would result in
the end of the radical regime that exists, especially if
we could ever get arms into the hands of the
people of Iran that don't want to live this way anymore.
It's been forty seven years a hell for them. It's
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not really much of a life. But this is how
the media spins this. Here's the Washington Post. Trump threats
against civilian targets put military in legal and moral quandary.
Oh it doesn't. What they're saying is not true. Have
you ever seen the Washington Post or any of these idiots,
and they are idiots. Be it on MSDNC, Legacy Media, CBS, AVC, NBC,
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Fake News, CNN, any of the major newspapers. Have they
ever done any articles about the moral and legal quandary
of the murderous regime, the terrorist regime, the terror proxy
supporting regime that has willfully been targeting, you know, this
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entire conflict. They've been targeting densely populated areas in Israel
and other parts of the Middle East. They have been
targeting the very same infrastructure in all these Gulf state
countries that produce oil. And not a single thought or
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one of these liberal commentators or writers has ever written
about the moral quandary of the Iranian leadership. They haven't,
they're saying. But the president's unrestrained statements have alarmed legal
experts and former military officials, who argue the President Trump's
threat to conduct broad attacks on civilian infrastructure very off
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limits and could undermine America America's aims in Iran and
create legal jeopardy for military leadership. I'm concerned the President's
bombast is putting operational commanders in difficult positions. At Jeffrey Korn,
who served as a top lawyer of war in the
US Army from two thousand and four to two thousand
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and five. They know you can't just draw a circle
around the country and say every element of the electric
grid is now a lawful target. This is where they're wrong,
and we'll getting into this in more detail at the
top of the hour. No, President Trump's promised to target
Iran's energy sites and bridges and key infrastructure. That is
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not a war crime. I had a long discussion with
Greg Jared, Who's going to join us at the top
of the hour. It's not a war crime. An enemy combatants,
fuel and power sources that support its military capabilities, often
delivered across bridges, are permissible under the Common Rules of War,
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meaning Iran's bridges, their power plans, their oil ins, the relations. Sorry, yeah,
they have civilian purposes, but they also have military purposes
and they also so that does not render it a
war crime. It would be akin in many ways to
collateral damage. It's a military target that has to be
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taken out. Unfortunately, it might have civilian purposes. Now the
critics are arguing that international law, we don't recognize the ICC,
the International Criminal Court number one, number two. We should
not be a part of these globalist organizations like the
United Nations, you know, with their the IAEA that has
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forever gotten wrong and underestimated the Iranian capabilities when it
comes to nuclear weapons because their inspections are complete Adam
shift and they they are bamboozled again and again and
again by the Iranian regime. It's like they underestimated their
ballistic missile capability and range. They do it constantly. But
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you know, the critics are saying laws prohibit the president
and and and the UN is angry at Donald Trump
for deploying any military measures or intimidation of terror against
the civilian population. Well, if you look at this conflict,
only one side has targeted densely populated civilian areas, and
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that would be the Iranians. They're the ones that have
been raining down cluster bomb after cluster bomb after cluster
bomb in Tel Aviv, a densely populated city in Israel.
They're the people that have been funding, fomenting terror and
supporting Hamas in Gaza. And what does Hamas do in Gaza.
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They fired their missiles from schools and hospitals because they
know Israel does not want to strike civilian targets, because
they actually respect human life, and they have tried up
until October seventh to follow those quote rules until it
got to the point of no return. And as the
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Iranians were raining down two thousand pounds and soon promising
four thousand pound ballistic missiles, they really got to a
point of no other option. And the same thing is
now happening with Hasbala. What is hamas, as Bala and
the Uti rebels all have in common is that they're
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proxies of the Iranian regime. Now I understand this probably
conflicting voices, those that are hardliners going up against those
people that actually may have opened their eyes a little
bit and realized this country is being decimated and is
not going to be much left of the country. Uh
So there's this internal power play struggle. But obviously if
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the more moderate voices don't win the day in the
next oh, I guess, you know, coming up on you know,
four hours and twelve minutes, then it's it's gonna be
what the president promised. Donald Trump doesn't make idle threats.
And by the way, depriving the enemy of fuel is
very different than targeting densely populated Civilianaireas. My question is
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in any of your coverage, in any of your reading,
and any of You know, if you ever watch these
other channels, that have they ever once complained about the
war crimes committed and perpetrated by the Iranian regime during
this entire conflict and during their forty seven year reign.
And the answer to the question is no. And the
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only reason they're bringing it up now is because Donald
Trumps president, and they just don't want Donald Trump to
win the war. If we're going to engage in a conflict,
it is best that we win that conflict. It is
not complicated, not that sophisticated. Anyway, President is aware of
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Pakistan's proposal to extend the deadline two weeks. We'll see
what happens with that. Anyway, Depriving the enemy of their
fuel resources has always been the legitimate objective of any
war or War II. The Allied Oil Plan systematically targeted
German synthetic fuel plants for finery storage facilities. Was that
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the wrong thing to do. The strike reduced production by
ninety percent by September nineteen forty four. Resulting fuel shortage
crippled the German warmesth and immobilized their tanks. Did it
have a severe impact on German civilians? Of course, it did,
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but it didn't. But it's not a war crime. Now.
I would imagine that if we were living in a
different time and we had Americans dying and you know,
by the thousands and thousands, like we did in World
War Two, and we had to make a decision. My
dad spent four years in the Pacific during that conflict
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after Pearl Harbor, and he signed up, and he spent
four years in the Pacific and the Navy, serving the
country and hated every minute of it. Lost a lot
of friends there, didn't want to talk about it much.
But was it the right decision or the wrong decision
to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I guess
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you know the concept of war crimes based on these
international treaties, the Jev Geneva Conventions, the Hague Regulations. But
the US is also has its own federal law called
the US War Crimes Act of nineteen ninety six, which
prohibits things like torture, mistreatment of prisoners, chemical or biological weapons.
Trump's actions don't even violate our own laws. You're just
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being lied to as usual and propagandized as per usual.
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All of you for being with us. Right down our
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Sean if you want to join us. I had fully
anticipated coming on the program and reporting that we are
five hours away from the deadline when President Trump has
(00:20):
promised that this would be Bridge and power plant Day
and Infrastructure Day, and that's how I planned the program.
And as I've been following the news, you know, the
last hour and a half in the lead up to
the show today, I keep getting more and more updates
about what is happening, and it looks like both Israel
(00:42):
and the US have already started conducting a round of
air strikes against more military targets on Irans, you know,
in different Iranian locations, including is a report US military
has conducted a new round of air strikes against military
targets on Iran's Krg Island. Explosions heard after the air
strikes carg Island early today. Ninety percent of Iranian oil
(01:07):
exports processed and shipped from the island. Wall Street Journal
reported fifty sites were targeted during those strikes, which you know,
we're confined to military targets, but you know, not yet
really going after their full infrastructure. The IDF this report
from the Jerusalem Post warplanes targeting railways and a report
(01:31):
that eight to ten bridges have already been taken out
by the IDF in a bid to make it easier
for Israeli and American forces to locate and destroy things
and the Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahu confirmed the IDF
strikes while adding that attacks against Iran are being conducted
with increased intensity. We are targeting the railways bridges used
(01:52):
by the Revolutionary Guards. They use them to transport raw
materials for weapons and the operatives that attack US, the
US and other countries in the region. The IDF said
it struck eight bridge segments in several areas across Iran,
the military confirming that prior to the strikes that steps
were taken to mitigate harm to civilians. Later this afternoon.
(02:17):
Just a short time ago, the IDF announced that it
had struck Iran's most central site for the production of
sonar systems and underwater detection systems and other reports. The
Israeli Air Force launched a wave of other attacks today,
killing two senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Tehran,
(02:41):
the first strike killing Majid Khadami, the head of the
Intelligence Protection Organization of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and
the intelligence organization of the IRGC. A separate strike in
Tehran killed another top IRGC of fIF Yazdan Meir, who
(03:03):
headed the IRGC Cuds Forces Clandestine Unit eight forty and
that has been implicated in kidnappings assassinations of figures outside
of Iran. The Israeli forces also hit targets at the
largest petrochemical plant, blowing up several airports used by the IRGC.
(03:23):
Is fighting continued, despite you know, efforts for negotiations. Now
Axios reported it this was about two and a half
hours ago, that progress had been made the past twenty
four hours. And I got this report to last night
that some progress might have been made. And what Axios
(03:46):
is reporting, I'll give you what they were reporting. I'll
keep my sources to myself for now. Iran sent a
counterproposal to the U. I love these people in their counterproposals.
They're great negotiators, but they're horrible at keeping their work.
This has been the history of Iran, and we always,
we always underestimate their capabilities, be it their nuclear capability,
(04:07):
ballistic missile capability. Anyway, so I ran stupidly with just
hours left until this deadline is hit. You know they
I'm not sure what part of Midnight Hammer and epic
Fury they missed. Uh. When Donald Trump gives you a deadline,
usually the deadline kind of gets moved up a little bit,
just to create the element of surprise that that's just
(04:28):
the way it works, and love and war and everything
in between. But anyway, while it was incompatible with the
US positions, the White House actually saw it as encouraging.
This is not complicated for the Iranians. If the Iranian
regime wants this conflict to end, there are two specific
(04:49):
things they would have had to agree to open the
straight oh horror moves One. Two handover their sixty percent
enriched uranium they have. You know that they think. I
don't know why they think they have any leverage in
any direct talks. Now. One other source Wall Street Journal
(05:10):
saying is that Iran cut off all direct communications with
the US after the President's vow on truth social to
destroy Iran's whole civilization if the country doesn't reach a
deal by eight pm Eastern time tonight, again less than
five hours away. The journal is Alexander Ward, adding talks
(05:30):
with ceasefire mediators continue. Middle Eastern officials say the move
has temporarily complicated those efforts, but Trump sparked a lot
of anger and concerned. Well, I'm sorry that they got angry,
but you know something, I'm angry too. I'm angry that
they didn't take this deal. I'm angry that they have
caused the deaths of tens and tens of thousands of
(05:52):
incalculable numbers because they use proxies to kill innocent men,
women and children. You know, I'm angry too what they
did on October seventh. I'm angry that they foment terran
have been fomenting terror in the Middle East and around
the world for decades now, for wopping forty seven years.
I'm angry at how they treat their own citizens. I'm
(06:14):
angry seeing images of citizens surrounding what are known targets
right now as we speak. I'm angry at all of it.
But we have every right to go after the infrastructure
of Iran, and I'll get to that in a second.
You would think, you know, this is the most amazing
part of this. This is how corrupt and this is
why I guess I've been successful in my career thanks
(06:35):
to all of you. I never forget that part. But
the other part of it is the legacy media never
has ever brought up the idea of war crimes when
it comes to Iranians targeting as they have been day
after day, night after night, densely populated cities in Israel
(06:55):
and other parts of the world and targeting civilians at
all times, that is their number one strategy. Or allowing
in Gaza schools to be used as shields. They're now
using their people to surround known targets that the president
is laid out for them. I guess with the promise
of martyrdom. I don't know. We also have an update
(07:18):
US Israel airstrikes decimating Iran's repressive secret police. This is
a big deal. There are five thousand members of Iran
security forces. They apparently have been killed another whopping twenty
one thousand wounded. Now why would Donald Trump move earlier?
Thought he gave them a deadline. Okay, he did give
(07:40):
them a deadline, and originally the deadline was ten days.
And the fact that they're futzing around with you know,
with some false, you know, delusional mindset that they're in
any position to negotiate. They're not. This was very straightforward.
It wasn't complicated. Open the straight a hormone for the
(08:00):
free flow of oil at market prices, and stop holding
the world's markets hostage. It's the lifeblood of the world's economy.
It's about twenty percent of the world's oil supply. I
find it fascinating that other countries in the region are
very cleverly now partnering with Israel to build pipelines so
that this situation won't ever arise again because of the
(08:23):
close proximity to the Uranians. Although I'm not sure in
the end, long term if this regime will survive whatever's
left of the regime. We're now with the fourth and
fifthier of it. You know, as I said on TV
last night, as I sat on this radio programming yesterday,
I really hoped that they would come to a smart,
negotiated settlement. There were two main things they had to do. Immediately,
(08:46):
open the STRAIGHTAHR moves, allow the free flow of oil
at market prices. And number two, the only other thing
they had to do was take the sixty percent enriched uranium,
some thousand pounds of it or foreigner and sixty kilograms
of it, whichever measurement you prefer. Linda doesn't like the
kilogram figure that I use, which could be used to
(09:07):
make ten or eleven bombs handed over to the US
led America to extract it the way we did in Libya.
And guess what, your country stops getting bombed, you have
an opportunity to rebuild society, although I doubt this whatever
remaining parts of the regime would be smart enough to
build it in a way that actually gave rights to
their citizens, the very same people that today they are
(09:31):
having surround you know, their power plant structures and other
you know, target mentioned targets to the president. Anyway, the
President has been urging the Iranian people to rise up
and take their government back for weeks now, and the
only thing standing in their way is fear of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces. But you know now that Israel
(09:54):
in the US are targeting them. But anyway, report this
morning and Iran in ourn all of this is about
to change. A review of citizen reports and source material
found in the months since the war began, at least
one hundred and thirty sites tied to internal repression were
destroyed or hit. They include a lot of the buildings
(10:16):
of both the police, Revolutionary Guard forces, compounds and other
security complexes involved in the repression of citizens. So they
are being weakened, and as the President mentioned yesterday the
Iranian people, there are attempts now to get arms into
the hands of the Iranian people, so hopefully they can
take their country back. We do have an update on
(10:38):
the son of the now dead Supreme Leader who was
killed in the opening salvos of Epic Fury. And this
is the son that the Supreme Leader, Ali Hamani, never
wanted to replace him. This is the one that the
New York Posts reported was gay, which by the way,
is a death sentence in Iran. Bring brought up to
(11:00):
a tall building. I mean, that was Linda. Did you
see we did a segment last night that General Solomani's
niece and grand niece living large in Los Angeles were
taken into custody. Did you see the skimpy outfits we
were showing them wearing last night, which, by the way,
I'm not judging them. I don't give a rip what
people wear. I don't care about that. My only point is,
(11:22):
can you imagine if we send them back to Iran
and those pictures go viral when eventually one day the
Internet gets turned back on there? And why were they
living the high life in the US while simultaneously calling
America the Great Satan. They're living in the Great Satan.
And the niece and grand niece of the now dead
(11:45):
General Solomani anyway back to the son of the Supreme
leader is quote unconscious, unable to be involved in any
decision making, according to the New York Post, and according
to an intelligence memo weeks after he was really injured.
He was injured in the opening salvo of this this
conflict and that killed his father and all his top deputies.
(12:09):
Some reports claimed he suffered only a fractured foot and
minor injuries. Others suggested he was in a coma. But anyway,
he's not been seen since that initial strike on February
twenty eighth that killed his father and much of his
family and much of the top brass and top leadership
that had been in charge for the longest period of
time in Iran, and anyways, currently undergoing medical treatment for
(12:32):
a severe condition. We apparently even know where he is.
It's about eighty seven miles south of tey Ran. Let's see.
Weight says, stay inside unless only of the utmost necessity
to leave. US. Israel intelligence reports, you know now confirming
(12:54):
that the son of the former Supreme leader, the guy
we're told is the current Supreme leader. You know, we
don't know anything about him except that he's absolutely not
part of any decision making process, was not part of
any negotiations with Steve Whitcoff Jared Kushner, Iran's president warning
their economy is near full collapse. According to Iran International News,
(13:18):
a deepening rifted at the top of the Islamic Republic
is now spilled into an unusually sharp confrontation, with the
president accusing senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders of unilateral actions
that have wrecked ceasefire prospects and pushed Iran towards disaster.
Too close to the presidential office. That apparently this tense
(13:41):
exchange is going on, So you've got a power struggle
at the top, which I guess is fairly predictable. But
Iran's economy will not be able to withstand a prolonged
war for much longer that the full economic collapse is
inevitable under current conditions. It sounds like there might be
a couple of reasonable voices that have been trying to
talk some sense.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You have to be.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Really dumb, really really dumb, after being given every opportunity
before Midnight Hammer to come to a peace agreement and
not doing so. Okay, midnight happens, fourteen bunker buster bombs.
We take out so much of their ballistic missile air
defense systems, et cetera. Okay, that ends in twelve days.
(14:26):
Then we discovered then we find out, yeah, they're bragging.
They have fourner and sixty kilograms of sixty percent enriched
uranium which can be enriched to weapons grade in less
than twelve days. We learned during this conflict that their
ballistic missile range was far longer than we originally thought. Okay,
now the president has a very short timeline. That's what
(14:48):
precipitated Operation Epic Fury. But even before Epic Fury, they
were giving a given a timeline to choose piece. They
chose not to accept it. Now everything has been pretty
much out. Now they've been given a final timeline. You know,
it just shows you the degree of fanaticism and evil
(15:09):
and radicalism, and now they're sending their own people to
what are known targets so that they will in all
likelihood be dead by the end of today, and they
don't care. And then reports that they're putting arms in
the hands of children, you know, to fight against the
infidels that of course would be us in Israel. Oh okay,
(15:33):
this is a great regime that's not evil, though you
can't say that it's evil. No, the United States, according
to some as evil, and if God forbid, Donald Trump
actually talks to an evil regime in the language they understand.
This is unbelievably shocking. Eleven years of Donald Trump talking
this way, and it's shocking still. And I'm gonna bubble
(15:53):
and fizz and melt like el Alca Seltzer in water.
It's such a it's so phony. I can't stand these people.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Alec Baldwin's favorite radio talk show host is on the
air right now, right mister Baldwin's sean Hennity by twenty
five till the top of the hour, or four hours
and twenty five minutes until the President has promised that
the whole civilization will die tonight unless then this will
(16:27):
be a Bridge Night, an infrastructure night, and you know,
the President has been very clear.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
The truth is, according to reports, this is this military
effort has already started, and it doesn't. There seems to
be no indication that there is going to be any
type of deal. You know, I'm watching this guy, Broe
Connor on Fox News. You know this guy, Linda. I mean,
he's yeah, no, okay, let me tell you something. His
(16:53):
arguments are stupid. There are dumb people. He goes, well,
American's died. What if? And you cannot you cannot ignore
what we've learned here. And there are people that will
put their head in the sand and they are willing
to gamble with our children's lives and our grandchildren's lives,
(17:16):
and they don't want to neutralize a threat while we're
able to do it with the minimal amount of risk.
Every military effort has risk. I don't want to minimize that.
I don't want to minimize the loss of any one
person's life in any way. However, if this regime gets
(17:37):
those nuclear weapons with those four nitred and sixty kilograms,
you don't like that measurement, but I do. Of sixty
percent enriched uranium less than twelve days weapons grade coupled
with longer range ballistic missiles that anybody knew, anybody thought
they had, and the idea that this regime that is
(17:57):
killed tens and tens of thousands of na some people
number one state sponsor of terror. They have read nothing
but death, havoc, destruction in the entire region. They have
fomented terror around the world. And for those ignorant people
that somehow believe that it's okay to let them move
forward with their nuclear program. Now, even Obama, even Biden,
(18:22):
even Kamala, even the Clintons, they all said Iran can
never have a nuclear weapon. They all said it. We've
played it repeatedly, and it doesn't seem to matter, and
Donald Trump stops it now all of a sudden. It's
a bad thing. The reality is neutralizing a future threat
shows that you have learned something from history. You've learned
(18:47):
that if you can neutralize a threat, take it out.
Yes it's dangerous, Yes it is hard, there's nothing easy
about it. Yes it's temporary, but it's a lot better
dealing with it now then dealing with it at some
point in the future. I mean, it's so simple. This
(19:08):
is common sense. And if the Democrats, radical Democrats, legacy
media mob, the weirdo isolationists that would never use American
American military mind until until you are forced to when
they have a nuclear weapon. Great, they get to hold
your children, your grandchildren hostage. And the sad part is
(19:31):
in this is you'll never be able to calculate how
many lives potentially could be saved by the President realizing
this is an existential threat for our future, the world's future,
our children's future, your grandchildren's future. And I really I
have no patience for stupid people, because there are a
(19:51):
lot of stupid, stupid people that are making a lot
of dumb commentary. You know, just like from the very beginning,
Donald Trump is doing the bidding of bb Netanyahu and Israel.
No he wasn't. Right now, they have ballistic missile range
capability that could reach Paris in London, They're twelve days
(20:12):
away from enriching enough uranium as soon as they build
back their Richmond facilities. Especially if we didn't do anything
militarily now to prevent that from happening, they would be
able to do that in twelve days. That would be
a clear and present danger that would hold the world hostage,
and then they'd only continue to build that out. Now,
it's hard to make tough military decisions and national security decisions,
(20:36):
but I am flabbergasted that people haven't learned a thing
from the last century. They haven't learned a single solitary
thing from history. Nothing. They just they just put their
head in the sand. Now let's deal with the latest
liberal talking point. It is liberal talking point. It's very,
(20:57):
very simple and stupid. Donald Trump said the US would
target every Iranian bridge and power plant. Now we actually
have images on Fox News amazing the things that the
Iranian regime will let out and they have. Now they
are now forcing their citizens. You will never convince me
(21:18):
that they're doing this voluntarily. They have people with Iranian
flags surrounding their power plants and the military targets. The
President Trump has stated unequivocally that he will be going
after And why would they do that? Explain that to me.
Why would they ever do that? Because they don't care
(21:40):
about their own citizens. Those are the people they put
to death on a regular basis. Those are the women
that they give beatings to. If there his job is
not fully covering their head or God forbid, you know,
other more severe rules on dress code or not met.
You know, they could face the death penalty been slaughtering
(22:01):
tens of thousands of their own people, you know. And
this hypocrisy really really irritates the hell out of me,
because here President Trump, just like Israel, we target military targets,
period and dissentence. And the President is not wrong when
he says when every bridge and power plant in Iran
(22:23):
is taken out, that the whole civilization will die. And
it's going to take a hell of a lot to
bring it back. But it probably would would result in
the end of the radical regime that exists, especially if
we could ever get arms into the hands of the
people of Iran that don't want to live this way anymore.
It's been forty seven years a hell for them. It's
(22:43):
not really much of a life. But this is how
the media spins this. Here's the Washington Post. Trump threats
against civilian targets put military in legal and moral quandary.
Oh it doesn't. What they're saying is not true. Have
you ever seen the Washington Post or any of these idiots,
and they are idiots. Be it on MSDNC, Legacy Media, CBS, AVC, NBC,
(23:09):
Fake News, CNN, any of the major newspapers. Have they
ever done any articles about the moral and legal quandary
of the murderous regime, the terrorist regime, the terror proxy
supporting regime that has willfully been targeting, you know, this
(23:32):
entire conflict. They've been targeting densely populated areas in Israel
and other parts of the Middle East. They have been
targeting the very same infrastructure in all these Gulf state
countries that produce oil. And not a single thought or
(23:53):
one of these liberal commentators or writers has ever written
about the moral quandary of the Iranian leadership. They haven't,
they're saying. But the president's unrestrained statements have alarmed legal
experts and former military officials, who argue the President Trump's
threat to conduct broad attacks on civilian infrastructure very off
(24:16):
limits and could undermine America America's aims in Iran and
create legal jeopardy for military leadership. I'm concerned the President's
bombast is putting operational commanders in difficult positions. At Jeffrey Korn,
who served as a top lawyer of war in the
US Army from two thousand and four to two thousand
(24:36):
and five. They know you can't just draw a circle
around the country and say every element of the electric
grid is now a lawful target. This is where they're wrong,
and we'll getting into this in more detail at the
top of the hour. No, President Trump's promised to target
Iran's energy sites and bridges and key infrastructure. That is
(24:57):
not a war crime. I had a long discussion with
Greg Jared, Who's going to join us at the top
of the hour. It's not a war crime. An enemy combatants,
fuel and power sources that support its military capabilities, often
delivered across bridges, are permissible under the Common Rules of War,
(25:21):
meaning Iran's bridges, their power plans, their oil ins, the relations. Sorry, yeah,
they have civilian purposes, but they also have military purposes
and they also so that does not render it a
war crime. It would be akin in many ways to
collateral damage. It's a military target that has to be
(25:43):
taken out. Unfortunately, it might have civilian purposes. Now the
critics are arguing that international law, we don't recognize the ICC,
the International Criminal Court number one, number two. We should
not be a part of these globalist organizations like the
United Nations, you know, with their the IAEA that has
(26:05):
forever gotten wrong and underestimated the Iranian capabilities when it
comes to nuclear weapons because their inspections are complete Adam
shift and they they are bamboozled again and again and
again by the Iranian regime. It's like they underestimated their
ballistic missile capability and range. They do it constantly. But
(26:27):
you know, the critics are saying laws prohibit the president
and and and the UN is angry at Donald Trump
for deploying any military measures or intimidation of terror against
the civilian population. Well, if you look at this conflict,
only one side has targeted densely populated civilian areas, and
(26:50):
that would be the Iranians. They're the ones that have
been raining down cluster bomb after cluster bomb after cluster
bomb in Tel Aviv, a densely populated city in Israel.
They're the people that have been funding, fomenting terror and
supporting Hamas in Gaza. And what does Hamas do in Gaza.
(27:13):
They fired their missiles from schools and hospitals because they
know Israel does not want to strike civilian targets, because
they actually respect human life, and they have tried up
until October seventh to follow those quote rules until it
got to the point of no return. And as the
(27:34):
Iranians were raining down two thousand pounds and soon promising
four thousand pound ballistic missiles, they really got to a
point of no other option. And the same thing is
now happening with Hasbala. What is hamas, as Bala and
the Uti rebels all have in common is that they're
(27:54):
proxies of the Iranian regime. Now I understand this probably
conflicting voices, those that are hardliners going up against those
people that actually may have opened their eyes a little
bit and realized this country is being decimated and is
not going to be much left of the country. Uh
So there's this internal power play struggle. But obviously if
(28:18):
the more moderate voices don't win the day in the
next oh, I guess, you know, coming up on you know,
four hours and twelve minutes, then it's it's gonna be
what the president promised. Donald Trump doesn't make idle threats.
And by the way, depriving the enemy of fuel is
very different than targeting densely populated Civilianaireas. My question is
(28:43):
in any of your coverage, in any of your reading,
and any of You know, if you ever watch these
other channels, that have they ever once complained about the
war crimes committed and perpetrated by the Iranian regime during
this entire conflict and during their forty seven year reign.
And the answer to the question is no. And the
(29:05):
only reason they're bringing it up now is because Donald
Trumps president, and they just don't want Donald Trump to
win the war. If we're going to engage in a conflict,
it is best that we win that conflict. It is
not complicated, not that sophisticated. Anyway, President is aware of
(29:27):
Pakistan's proposal to extend the deadline two weeks. We'll see
what happens with that. Anyway, Depriving the enemy of their
fuel resources has always been the legitimate objective of any
war or War II. The Allied Oil Plan systematically targeted
German synthetic fuel plants for finery storage facilities. Was that
(29:48):
the wrong thing to do. The strike reduced production by
ninety percent by September nineteen forty four. Resulting fuel shortage
crippled the German warmesth and immobilized their tanks. Did it
have a severe impact on German civilians? Of course, it did,
(30:08):
but it didn't. But it's not a war crime. Now.
I would imagine that if we were living in a
different time and we had Americans dying and you know,
by the thousands and thousands, like we did in World
War Two, and we had to make a decision. My
dad spent four years in the Pacific during that conflict
(30:32):
after Pearl Harbor, and he signed up, and he spent
four years in the Pacific and the Navy, serving the
country and hated every minute of it. Lost a lot
of friends there, didn't want to talk about it much.
But was it the right decision or the wrong decision
to drop the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I guess
(30:52):
you know the concept of war crimes based on these
international treaties, the Jev Geneva Conventions, the Hague Regulations. But
the US is also has its own federal law called
the US War Crimes Act of nineteen ninety six, which
prohibits things like torture, mistreatment of prisoners, chemical or biological weapons.
Trump's actions don't even violate our own laws. You're just
(31:15):
being lied to as usual and propagandized as per usual.
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