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March 22, 2022 - Sean Hannity Show
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The Future of The Middle East - March 22nd, Hour 3
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Never in my lifetime did I ever think the first Iranian deal would ever take place where the U.S. is dropping, you know, literally billions of dollars in cash and other currency on the tarmac for mullahs in Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror that chant death to America, death to Israel.
I never thought I'd see that.
Never thought we'd see America begging a murdering dictator thug like Maduro and talk about sending emissaries, talking about lifting sanctions so we can import oil from Venezuela.
I never thought we'd see a president on his hands and knees constantly pleading and begging with OPEC nations to increase their oil production.
In the case of Iran, this Iranian deal, according to all reports, would allow, believe it or not, some, what, $30 billion in sanctioned cash, that's B billion dollars in sanctioned cash to be released to the Iranians.
That is insanity by its very definition.
That would allow this nuclear deal to go back in place and, you know, at a time when they've made no changes at all whatsoever.
This deal may include taking off the terror list in this country members of the Iranian National Guard.
This deal may include a $10 million billion dollar windfall for Russia to help the Iranians build nuclear facilities.
It doesn't get any more insane than this.
And if you go back to when Donald Trump left office, something that I didn't think was possible in 2015 happened.
And that is the United States, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the Saudis, the Emirates all had an incredible alliance culminating in the Abraham Accords and also culminating in the president recognizing Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel.
And there's never been a friendlier president to Israel than Donald Trump was.
And all of that is being destroyed because as Joe Biden pursues this relationship with the Mullahs and Iran, in part because he wants their oil, and even the Canadians are scratching their heads saying, hello, we've got all the Canadian oil you need.
You don't need to talk to Venezuela and Iran.
Joe Biden is pursuing this with a passion.
Seems like the only sticking point right now is the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's status and whether or not we will allow them to get off the no-fly list and have the world's number one terrorists have the ability to fly into our country.
How stupid would that make this country?
And now they're doubling down on dumb and want this deal in large part because Joe Biden's so beholden to the climate alarmist cult known as the New Green Deal Democratic Socialist Party and this bizarre adherence to this belief that it's better that we import oil rather than be energy independent that he wants to make this deal.
It's insanity.
Here's Jen Saki answering the question.
This is not then the IRGCB delisted from the terrorist blacklist.
There's an ongoing negotiation.
I'm not going to get into specifics of it, but I would just note that the status quo where we stand has done nothing to make us safer in any regard.
Would the president then welcome Iranian oil coming into the United States in order to increase that supply?
Again, there's not a deal at this point in time.
Well, we're close.
We're not there.
So if and when we get to that point, we can speak to that question.
What we can do to prevent this from being a challenge in future crises, the best thing we can do is reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil, because that will help us have a reliable source of energy so that we're not worried about gas prices going up because of the whims of a foreign dictator.
Can you guys think that asking Saudi Arabia or Venezuela for Iran is reducing our dependence on foreign oil?
That's actually, I just outlined each of those specific scenarios and the range of discussions that we're having, which each of those countries, I don't think anybody is advocating for Iran to continue acquiring a nuclear weapon, perhaps except for the former president who pulled us out of the deal.
Joining us now, Mohamed Al-Qasim is with us.
He's the Middle East Bureau Chief for the media line.
And Anel Shaleen is with us, a research fellow in the Middle East program at Quincy Institute, an expert on religious and political authority.
Now, we also have the other issue of the seventh anniversary of the Saudi war with Yemen.
It's a proxy war being led by the Iranians.
And more recently, they were hitting some of Saudi Arabia's oil facilities and other power facilities within the country.
Mohamed, welcome to the program.
Thank you.
What's your take on the current state of things?
Because I'm reading that both Saudi Arabia, the UAE, OPEC nations are so angry at Joe's dealings with Iran, they don't want anything to do with Joe Biden.
Well, that's correct.
There's a certain level of anger coming from the Gulf countries, mainly the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, for two reasons.
First of all, they're upset at the U.S. administration for not taking into consideration many of their concerns over the Iranian nuclear deal.
They believe that they have been marginalized.
And let's add to the conversation also Israel.
Those three countries don't believe that the U.S. has taken enough or taken the issue of rejoining the Iran nuclear deal seriously.
Also, both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are upset that the U.S. hasn't shown real or serious steps first in sympathizing with them over the continuation of Houthi ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, as well as drone attacks on both.
And some of those attacks have been targeted against Aramco.
This is the biggest oil company in the world.
And at this time, when the world is facing a serious oil reduction due to the Russian invasion in Ukraine, this becomes problematic.
And the Saudi government has come out a couple of days ago flat out saying that they're not responsible for any shortage of oil or energy due to the attacks of the Houthis because the world isn't responding swiftly.
This is very complicated.
And I think the continuation or the lack of clarity over the U.S. administration policy on Yemen and how it wants to deal with it.
The first President Biden said that it wants to end all offensive operation in Yemen, meaning that they've stopped supporting Saudi Arabia and the Saudi coalition, and they weren't providing enough weapons to the Saudis.
But in the last few days, we've heard that Washington has sold the Patriot missiles and actually released them over the last week.
Is this because of what's happening in Ukraine?
Is this because of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are upset as the Biden admission?
No, I can tell you what it is.
The Saudis are not answering Joe's calls, nor is our other OPEC nations, nor is the UAE answering his calls because they know what the call is about.
They want an increase.
Joe wants an increase in the production of oil because he's too stupid to drill for the oil we have and the resources that we have here and use them.
And they're fed up with Joe Biden and doing these negotiations with the number one state sponsor of terror.
Now, this battle with Yemen is being fought as a proxy war from Iran.
And the Houthis have been supplied with all of their weaponry from Iran.
Anel, we'll get your take.
Well, my perspective, what's really astonishing here is that the Saudis and Emiratis are not willing to raise production.
I mean, where's the reciprocity here?
Where's the oil for security?
Both the Saudis and the Emiratis remain entirely dependent on the United States for their security.
As you said, Saudi Arabia said they can't be responsible for the impact on oil production.
So clearly, they very much are relying still on the U.S., and yet they're not taking Joe Biden's calls.
I mean, it's really astonishing.
And I think what we're seeing here is actually they see Putin as a better ally for them because they know that he would be willing to perhaps do for them what he did for Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which is to murder civilians in order to keep them in power.
So unfortunately, it's just really astonishing to me to think that countries that remain entirely dependent on the United States are siding with Russia in this question of Ukraine and oil production.
Well, I mean, it's complicated, but it's a self-inflicted wound on the American economy and American national security.
Quick break, we'll come back more with Mohammed Qasim is Al-Qasim is with us.
Also, Anel Shaleen is with us.
800-941 Sean, your calls at the bottom of the half hour.
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All right, as we continue with Mohammed Al-Kasim and also Anel Shalina is with us.
Mohamed, Joe Biden inherited energy independence.
Donald Trump, his last few months as president, did not import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia.
He didn't need it.
We have Canada to the north that is willing and able to supply millions of barrels of oil a day, even now without the Keystone XL pipeline, 400,000 extra barrels of oil every single day.
But yet, you know, Joe Biden has been resistant to doing it.
Why he's reaching out to the likes of Iran?
There's no logical explanation, begging OPEC nations.
I'm sorry, but Von President, I'm not begging the Saudis or OPEC nations for a thing.
Well, the thing is that I'm not sure that the U.S. really imports a great deal of oil from the Gulf.
But it's important to the United States that the flow of energy and the flow of oil as well as gas continues to leave the Gulf into Europe as well as allies of the U.S. and Asia and the Far East, because that keeps the wheels of industries and factories working and the supply chains back to work.
The problem is, if the alternatives are very limited, yeah.
It's either the OPEC countries where they have certain obligations to the cartel itself, and that's why I think they're unable to raise the output that much because they're obligated to a certain level of daily production.
But they still are able, if they want to, to reach some sort of an agreement to raise the level of daily production.
However, they don't want to upset Putin and they don't want to upset Moscow.
They feel, and I've spoken, the media line has spoken to analysts and politicians in the Gulf who said very clearly that they feel that Putin, as well as Russia, is a much more reliable ally than the U.S. has been.
And they're not so shy anymore.
And they've matured politically in the Gulf.
And they understand that, you know, if they needed weapons, they can get it immediately without any question from Russia, where they have to go through so many different steps before they get the weapons that they need to protect themselves from the United States.
And to be quite honest with you, Gulf countries, and especially the Saudis and the Emirates, have lost a certain level of faith and trust in the U.S. government going back to former President Barack Obama's administration.
They feel that with him signing on to the first Iran nuclear agreement, that they have...
Well, I agree with you on the trust part, Mohamed.
Let me make sure that Anal gets in here.
I want to get your take on that.
That trust has been broken a long time ago, but we already know Putin, China, and Iran have already created their own alliance.
And obviously, they're all responsible in large part for the Yemen war against the Saudis, are they not?
Well, I think that's a very good point you made, Sean, in terms of the fact that neither China nor Russia is going to give up their relationship with Iran just to assuage the Saudis or Emiratis feelings.
And so we've seen the Saudis and Emiratis continue to play on this Washington mistrust of Tehran when, in fact, we saw Riyadh and Tehran reaching out to each other over this past year.
A lot of this just goes back to this underlying U.S. mistrust.
But I wanted to address one point Mohammed had made in terms of the Saudis and Emiratis still being concerned about the Houthi attacks.
The United States helped the Saudis to block 90% of Houthi attacks.
The vast majority of these attacks are blocked.
And Biden did just send additional Patriot anti-missile systems after the attacks on Abu Dhabi happened in January.
The U.S. immediately sent fifth-generation fighter planes, as well as the USS Cole, to assist with Emirati defense.
So this notion that the U.S. is not assisting with Saudi and Emirati defense is just patently false.
But the alliance that we had with Trump and Israel and Jordan and Egypt and the Saudis and the Emirates, that was something I didn't think was conceivable at the time.
And now that alliance is being shattered because Joe Biden has decided to throw his weight behind the Zaranian deal, and nobody can understand the rationale, the reasoning behind it, if you have any knowledge of the region.
But it's, again, a lot of it rooted in the free flow of oil at market prices.
And Joe's not going to get a thing, I think, from OPEC Nations because they're furious with him.
Anyway, I appreciate you both.
Thank you.
Anel, thank you.
Mohamed, thank you.
800-941 Sean, our number.
We'll get to your calls right at the bottom of the half hour.
Quick break, right back.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's go to Craig is in California.
Craig, how are you?
Glad you called.
What the hell are you doing living out there?
You have to ask my mother.
Why do you live with your mom?
Do you live with your mom?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But listen, I want to make three quick comments on the war, Biden and Trump.
Well, hang on one second.
Let me go back to this issue.
So may I ask?
You don't have to answer.
How old are you?
I am a 72-year-old African-American conservative, okay?
Thank you for serving your country.
I am a born-again conservative.
I am a drop of conservative water out here on the left coast in the Pacific Ocean of the left coast.
So you're basically telling me you just love it out there, and your mother planted you there, and that's it.
You're not moving.
I got it.
But thank you for serving your country.
What's on your mind today?
But listen, the follow-up on a couple of callers ago, as a Vietnam veteran, I am ashamed of the United States military starting with the commander-in-chief.
I am ashamed.
If I hear one more of these, I'm watching these TV generals and these TV colonels, and I see why we've been losing wars.
If I hear one more time, we can't do this because he'll do that, I'm going to scream.
This is crazy.
Stop lying saying you're giving Zelensky everything he's asking for because you're not.
Give him the MiGs.
Blinken said yes to the MiGs.
And I want to know what individual or individuals in this government said no to the MiGs after Blinken said yes to the MiGs.
He has a right to defend the sovereign sky over his sovereign country.
No, we're not going to send our pilots in to do the no-fly zone.
We're going to let his pilots affect the no-fly zone.
Also, NATO, all of them should get together, have a news conference.
Mr. Putin, we're going to have a humanitarian airlift starting at such and such a time on such and such a date.
And if you fire upon it, we will unleash a force on you that you're not used to getting.
That's like Gladiator or My Command unleash hell.
Listen, I nominate you to be president because that's strength.
What you're projecting is strength.
And you're right.
No boots on the ground.
Joe Biden should have said to Poland, give them the MiGs, have their pilots go in and take them and just say, well, there's an article that came out today.
Well, the Kremlin is lashing out at Poland for siding with Ukraine.
Well, because Poland knows that they're probably in Putin's sights next.
Now, what the interesting thing that is going to be, regardless of how this all works out, and I assume Putin, if he doesn't get the whole country, is going to get a significant portion of Ukraine.
And the question is, where do his territorial ambitions take him next?
And people are saying now, oh, but he's going to be ostracized and economic sanctions.
I call total BS on that because until Europe weans itself off of Russia's energy and becomes energy independent and they stop listening to their climate change radical environmentalists, then they're going to be, this is going to be forgotten as soon as it's over.
Just like when Crimea was annexed, it was forgotten very quickly.
And those territorial ambitions remain.
Now, I'd say probably the next shoe that will drop is going to be China and Taiwan.
I think President Xi is very strategic, very smart, long-term thoughts, thinking.
And I think President Xi's thinking is pretty obvious.
Let me see how this plays out.
And then I'll make my decision accordingly.
And based on everything that he's said and all the actions he's taken, I would assume that his decision is going to be reunification with Taiwan.
That's what I expect.
Anyway, Craig, we appreciate you.
God bless you.
And I hope you enjoy at least the sunny weather because you're paying a lot of money for it.
Kev Kelvin is in California also.
Kelvin, what are you doing out there?
Glad you called.
Hello, good sir.
It is a pleasure to speak with you, Sean.
Hey, pleasure is all mine.
Well, you're known in our household as sanity.
So I'll call my wife and say, hey, are you listening to sanity today?
Because there's only a few of you left.
I've been called a lot worse.
I appreciate the compliment.
You got it.
Hey, I wanted to just mention to you the monoclonal antibodies that you were so fervently talking about.
And I did my homework on it.
And I just want to let you know that my stepdad, who's 83, my mom, who's 82, they both got it back at the end of last year.
And we got among monoclonal antibodies.
And they both have COPD.
So they were prime candidates to not survive this.
And they're doing big time candidates.
How quickly did you get it in their system, get the infusion?
Less than 10 days.
It was about day six, day seven.
That's actually a little late.
My advice to anybody listening to this show, and by the way, it still works.
But once you, they actually won't give it to you after day 10 because they feel the window's passed.
So my advice to everyone in this audience is this, and I'm not a doctor, and I'm not going to play one on radio or TV.
I keep saying that.
If you get a positive test or somebody you love and care about gets a positive test immediately, you need to call your doctor.
And the next thing you need to do is ask about monoclonal antibodies.
And unfortunately, now I'm hoping, like, for example, for Omicron, the monoclonal antibody of choice, although I'm told by people in the field that Regeneron did work and Eli Lilly did work, but they weren't as effective as GSK Cetrovumab, which is another monoclonal antibody.
That's Gladstone Klein Smith.
And I don't want to get too in the weeds here, but call your doctor and ask for the infusion.
Do your own research and talk to other medical professionals.
Now, if you're going to get the infusion, it is best to take it as early as possible.
There's not a single person that I know that got it fairly early that didn't do well with it.
Not one.
And, you know, I know people that used HCQ and did very well.
And like the Henry Ford study, hospital study says, and so many others echoed, you know, taken early, that is effective.
Taking zinc and vitamin D3 and vitamin C, and I can't even remember all the other stuff at this point, but all of it combined save lives.
And actually, what's the name of the book?
Our friends, our two friends, Dr. Farid and Dr. Tyson.
And they saved over 7,000 people.
They know more about COVID because they were on the front lines the whole time.
And they believe in proactive medicine.
The problem, even still, Kelvin, is this, is that there are many hospitals, sadly, in this country that will tell you you get a positive COVID test, oh, go home.
And if your temperature goes up, take two extra strength Tylenol.
And if your oxygen level, you want to measure that fairly regularly, if your oxygen level goes to 90 or below, you need to go to the hospital.
Yeah, but by the time that oxygen level is reduced, somewhere between day six, but really day seven and 10, by the time it goes from 94 or 96 to 90 to 85 to 80, you walk in the hospital, the damage is done.
The damage is done.
It's too late.
That's the stupidity of Anthony Fauci and Walinski and the CDC and the NIH.
All they talk about is vaccine, vaccine, vaccine.
Okay, well, now, whether you're vaccinated, fully vaccinated, booster vaccinated, you still get, people still are getting COVID.
Yeah, but it's preventing hospitalizations and deaths.
That's not what they told us in the beginning.
I am saying that you want to be proactive.
I love my audience.
I can't do this show without all of you.
I don't want anybody to die needlessly.
And I'm telling you, the one thing I would highly recommend, immediately call your doctor, ask about monoclonal antibodies.
I repeat it often.
Get the infusion.
Have your doctor.
And by the way, you should have a plan just in case.
In other words, I know exactly if I test positive tomorrow what I'm going to do.
I know exactly what I'm going to do.
And it will be fast.
And I have option A, B, C, D, and E. Linda, have I not.
That was our plan, Sean.
And thanks to you putting us on that track.
We were ready for it.
And they were doing all the vitamins, all the vitamins prior to, so it all helped.
Listen, at the end of the day, I don't think there's going to be anybody that ends up without getting this thing.
I've seen the worst of this.
And let me tell you, it's not pretty.
That's why I have a sense of urgency that I don't know why the government doesn't have.
Anyway, appreciate the call.
Lane is in South Carolina.
Lane, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, Sean, I listen to you all the time.
Yes, sir.
But I think you connect the dots for your listeners.
And because you're Sean Hannity, I want to give a shout out to my daughter's boyfriend, Sean, a master sergeant from Kansas at Paris Island.
I'll send my best.
We send our best to Sean, and he's probably going through some rough days now.
Here's the story.
I started a trucking company so we wouldn't have to sell off parts of our farm.
I'm fourth generation, and the Lord blessed me with two daughters and three granddaughters that are all girls, no boys.
But I want to talk about what's going on in Ukraine and China and the United States.
China gets 25% of their wheat from Russia.
And phosphate and potash and wheat in Ukraine provides 25% of the former Soviet Union's supply of those things.
You've got to have phosphate and potash to grow anything in China.
And if you check the wheat markets in the United States, they're suppressing our wheat commodity prices.
And they don't care about the buildings of the people.
They want the phosphate, the potash, and the wheat so they can give it to China.
And those are the dots that we can't see that's between China and Russia.
And when Trump was in there, he had deals set up on farm products.
And Brandon has suppressed all that.
And all you got to do is go to Google or go to any commodity things and check the three items that I talked about.
They've gone up.
And so if they blow up all the buildings and get rid of all the people, they can get the phosphate, the potash, and the wheat.
And that'll go straight to China.
Now, this isn't a conspiracy because I'm an American, and we have farm in South Carolina, and we have a farm in Florida.
And that's what's going on behind the scenes.
You don't see it if you don't deal with it.
So you think there's more involvement?
And listen, I know nothing about this.
And you're saying that, in essence, that this is Russia's attempt to get all those minerals?
Yeah, you know, China has a food problem.
And in order to get something to come out of the ground, you need phosphates for fertilizer, and you need potash for germination and seedlings.
And there is, let me ask you a question.
And there's an abundance of it in Ukraine.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
That is just like Texas, a big old flat farming area.
They're rich in that.
They've made money on that to develop their cities and their infrastructures, just like we do here in America.
And when Brandon went over there to China, that's probably one of the things they talked about, and particularly those two clowns after the Olympics, because China is trying to gather food and stuff from everybody in the world.
And as we watch this happen, our food prices and stuff shoot up.
And the boy I was talking about, Sean's from Kansas, and you checked the week.
Let me, I'm running out of time.
How long have you been farming?
I'm fourth generation.
And how many acres do you farm and what do you farm?
Well, I'm in the tree farming business because of your people in New York wanting palm trees.
Now they're moving to South Carolina and Florida.
I harvest palm trees, pintas, and high-end trees.
Man, I paid for a couple of these.
I paid a lot of money for a couple of trees not that long ago.
South Carolina with our governor and Florida with their governor.
Life is wide open.
Yeah, but you got to understand, if people, I don't have a problem with people moving, but if you're going to move out of one of these liberal states like California or New York or Illinois or New Jersey, leave your liberal policies at home.
And if you're not willing to do that, don't move.
Stay right where you are.
Don't wreck the next state that you go to and vote for the same stupid policies that ruined the state that you left.
I got to run Lane.
God bless you, man.
Appreciate it.
800.
I don't know.
I need to know more about farming.
I just don't know.
I'm not the farming person.
Linda, you know a little bit more than I do.
I do.
I mean, I actually just learned a ton of it from Anthony.
He knows quite a bit about it.
Anthony is Linda's Mr. Wonderful.
That's how we're doing.
He is indeed.
He's fantastic.
All right.
That's going to wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Hope you set your DVR.
We'll have the very latest on the ground in Ukraine.
Dan Hoffman will join us.
Laura Trump will join us.
Victor Davis Hansen will join us.
Also, the hearings with Katanji Brown Jackson and how things went today.
Both Senator Cruz and Senator Josh Hawley will join us.
They're on the committee, Judiciary Committee.
Kelly Ann, Conway, Mike Huckabee, and much more.
Set your DVR, Hannity, Nine Eastern Fox.
We'll see you tonight, back here tomorrow.
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