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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 uh 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, um, 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 sending emissaries talking about lifting sanctions so we can import oil from uh Venezuela.
Uh I never thought we'd see a president on their on his hands and knees constantly pleading and begging with OPEC nations to increase the uh their oil production.
Um in the case of Iran, this Iranian deal, according to all reports would allow, believe it or not, um, some what, thirty billion dollars in in sanctioned cash, that's B billion dollars in sanctioned cash to be released uh to the Iranians.
That is insanity by its very definition, uh, that would allow this nuclear deal to go back in place and need you know, at a at a time when they they've made no changes at all whatsoever.
They may 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 we, you know, 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, uh, Egypt, the Saudis,
the Emirates, all had an incredible alliance culminating in the Abraham Accords, and also culminating in, you know, the president recognizing Jerusalem as the true capital of Israel, and 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.
Um, 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 do 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, that and 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 Psaki answering the question.
Should not then the IRGC be 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 uh 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 uh in order to increase that supply?
Again, there's not a in Iran, there's not a deal at this point in time.
Well, we're close, we're not there.
Um, so uh 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, uh, because that will help us uh 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.
And 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 part discussions that we're having, uh, 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 put it pulled us out of the deal.
Joining us now, Mohammed al-Qasim is with us.
He's the Middle East bureau chief for the media line, and Anel Shalen is with us, a research fellow in the Middle East program at Quincy Institute and an expert on religious and political authority.
Um now we also have the other issue of the seventh anniversary of the Saudi war with Yemen, that's a proxy war being led by the Iranians, uh, and more recently they were hitting some of Saudi Arabia's oil facilities and and other power facilities within the country.
Uh Mohammed, 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.
Uh there's uh a certain level of anger coming from the Gulf countries, mainly the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, uh, on for for two reasons.
First of all, they're upset at the uh the US administration for not taking uh into consideration many of their concerns uh over the Iranian nuclear deal.
Um they believe that they have been marginalized, and let's add to the conversation also Israel.
Um those three three countries um don't believe that the US has taken uh enough uh or taken the issue of uh rejoining the Iran nuclear deal seriously.
Also, uh both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are upset that the US hasn't shown real or serious uh steps first in sympathizing with them over the continuous continuation of hosty ballistic missile attacks on Saudi Arabia and uh the Emirates, as well as drone attacks on both.
And some of those attacks have been target targeted against Aramko.
This is the the biggest uh oil company in the world, and this at this time when the world is uh facing a serious uh oil reduction due to the uh Russian invasion uh in in Ukraine, uh this becomes problematic.
And the Saudi government has come out uh a couple of days ago flat out saying that they're not responsible for any shortage of uh of oil or energy um due to the attacks of the Houthis, because the world isn't um you know responding uh swiftly.
Uh this is very complicated.
And I think the the continuation or the lack of clarity of for over uh the US administration policy on Yemen and how it wants to deal with it.
They first President Biden said that it wants to end all offensive operation uh in in Yemen, um, meaning that they've stopped supporting Saudi Arabia and the Saudi coalition and they weren't providing enough weapons to the Saudis.
But uh in the last few days we've heard that the the the Washington has sold the Patriot missiles and actually re released them over the last week.
Is this because of what's happening in Ukraine?
Is this because of uh Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are upset that as the Biden administration?
No, I can tell you what it is.
They they the Saudis are not answering Joe's calls, nor is our other OPEC uh nations, nor are is the UAE answering his calls, uh, because they know what the call's 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 you know, doing these negotiations uh with the number one state sponsor of terror.
Now, this battle with Yemen is being fought as a proxy war uh from Iran, and the Houthis have been supplied with all of their weaponry from Iran.
Annel will get your take.
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 Emirates remain entirely dependent on the United States for their security.
As you said, Saudi Arabia uh said they can't be Responsible for for the impact on oil production.
So clearly they very much are relying still on the US 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, I it it's just really uh astonishing to me to think that these 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 on the American economy and American national security.
Quick break, we'll come back more with Mohammed Kasim is Al Qasim is with us.
Also Anel uh Shalen is with us, 800 nine four one Sean, your calls at the bottom of the half hour.
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Uh Mohammed, we Joe Biden inherited energy independence.
He I Donald Trump is last few months as president did not import a single barrel of oil from Saudi Arabia.
He didn't need it.
Um we have Canada to the north that is willing and able to supply, you know, millions of barrels of oil a day, even now without the Keystone XL pipeline, four hundred thousand 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, uh there's there's no logical explanation.
Begging OPEC nations.
I'm sorry, but if I'm president, I'm not begging the Saudis or or OPEC nations for a thing.
Well, the the pro the thing is that I'm not sure that the US really uh 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 uh the Gulf into Europe as well as uh allies of the US and Asia and the Far East, because that keeps the wheels of uh industries and uh factories working and the supply chains uh back to to work.
The problem is if if if the ultr the alternatives are very limited, yeah.
Um it's it's either it's either the the opic countries with where they have certain obligations to the cartel itself, and that's why I think they're unable to raise the uh output that much because they're obligated uh to a certain level of pr daily production.
But they still are able if they want to to reach some sort of an agreement to raise the level of uh daily production.
However, they're not 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 uh analysts and and and politicians in the Gulf who said very clearly that they feel that Putin, as well as m Russia is a much more reliable ally than the U.S. has been.
And they 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 uh from the United States.
And to be quite honest with you, Gulf countries, especially the Saudis and the Emirates have lost a certain level of uh faith and trust in in the US government going back to former President Barack Obama's administration.
They feel that with him signing on to the first uh Iran nuclear uh agreement that they that they have that Well, I agree with you on the trust part, Muhammad.
Let me let me make sure that Annel gets in here.
I want to get your take on that.
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 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 um 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 Emirates continue to play on this Washington mistrust of Tehran when in fact we we saw Riyadh and Tehran reaching out to each other over this past year.
A lot of this just goes back to this underlying US 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 US immediately sent fifth generation fighter planes as well as the USS coal to assist with Emirati defense.
So this notion that the US 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 uh something I didn't think was conceivable uh at the time.
And and now that alliance is being shattered because Joe Biden has decided to throw his weight behind the Zaranian deal, and and nobody can understand the the rationale, the reasoning behind it, uh, 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, and now thank you, Mohammed, 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 till the top of the hour, 800-941, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh 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?
I you have to ask my mother.
Why do you live with your mother?
Do you live with your mom?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
But listen, I want to make uh 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 seventy-two-year-old African American GSO.
So by the way, conservative.
Okay.
Thank you for serving your country.
I I I am a born-again conservative.
I am a drop of conservative water out here on the left coast in the uh 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 uh thank you for serving your country.
What's on your mind today?
But listen, uh the follow-up uh on a couple of callers ago.
Uh 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 MIG, 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 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 air lib 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.
Um listen, uh, I I nominate you to be president.
That's strength.
What you're projecting is strength.
And you're right.
No boots on the ground.
Um, Joe Biden should have said to Poland, give them the MIGs, have their pilots go in and take them and just say, well, they there's an article that came out today.
Well, uh the the Kremlin is lashing out at Poland for siding you with Ukraine.
Well, because Poland knows that they're 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, what 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 you know climate change radical environmentalists, then they're gonna be there this is gonna be forgotten as soon as it's over.
Just like when Crimea was annexed, it was forgotten very quickly, and and those territorial ambitions remain.
Now, I'd say probably the next shoe that we'll drop is gonna be China and Taiwan.
I think President Chi is very strategic, very smart, long-term thoughts thinking, and I think President Xi's thinking is is pretty obvious.
Let me see how this plays out, and then I'll make my decision accordingly.
And based on everything that he said and all the actions he's taken, I would assume that his decision is going to be to reunification with Taiwan.
That's what I expect.
Uh anyway, Craig, we appreciate you, God bless you, and uh hope you enjoy at least the sunny weather because you're paying a lot of money for it.
Uh Kev uh Kelvin is in uh California also.
Calvin, what are you doing out there?
Glad you called.
Hello, good sir.
It is a pleasure to speak with you, Sean.
Hey, pleasure's 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, uh, I wanted to just mention to you uh the monoclonal antibodies that you were uh uh so 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, big time candidates.
How quickly did you get it in their system?
Get the infusion.
Uh 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 um once you get they actually won't give it to you after day 10, because they feel the windows passed.
So it's always so my advice to everyone in this audience is this, and I'm not a doctor, and I'm not gonna 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, uh now I'm hoping, like, for example, for the 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 Sitrovamab, which is another monoclonal antibody.
That's Gladstone Klein Smith.
Uh I'm and I don't want to get I don't want to get two 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 gonna 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 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.
Uh taking zinc and vitamin D3 and vitamin C and I can't even remember all the other stuff at this point.
But all of all of it combined save lives.
And and actually, what what's the name of the book, our friend?
Um our two uh friend Dr. Farid and Dr. Tyson, and they 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 with the you get a positive COVID test.
Oh, uh go home and if your temperature goes up, take two extra strength Tylenol.
Um, and if your oxygen level, you want to measure that fairly regularly, if your oxygen level goes uh to ninety or below, um you need to go to the hospital.
Yeah, but the by the time that oxygen level is reduced, somewhere between day six, but really day seven and ten, by the time you goes from ninety-four or ninety-six to ninety to eighty-five to eighty, 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 Walinsky and the CDC and the NIH.
All they talk about is vaccine, vaccine, vaccine.
Okay, well, now whether you 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 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 gonna do.
I know exactly what I'm gonna do.
And it will be fast, and I I have option A, B, C, D, and E. Linda, have I not that was definitely our plan, Sean, and and thanks to you uh putting us on that track.
Uh, we were ready for it.
And they were doing all the vitamins, uh all the vitamins prior to you, so it all helped.
Listen, at the end of the day, I don't think there's gonna 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.
This is a Meravet.
But I'm gonna connect the dots for your listeners.
Okay.
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.
We'll send my best.
We send our best to Sean.
And uh 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 bless me with two daughters and three granddaughters that are all girls, no boys.
But uh I want to talk about what's going on in Ukraine and China and the United States.
China gets tr gets twenty-five percent of their wheat from Russia and phosphate and pot ash and wheat in Ukraine provides twenty-five percent of the former Soviet Union's supply of those things.
You gotta have phosphate and pot ash to grow anything in China.
And if you check the wheat markets in the United States, uh they got they're suppressing our wheat commodity prices, and they don't care about the buildings of the people, they want the phosphate, the pot ash, 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 uh Trump was in there, he had deals set up on farm products, and uh Brandon has suppressed all that.
And all you gotta 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 pot ash, and the wheat, and that'll go straight to China.
Now, this isn't a conspiracy because I'm an American and uh we have farm in 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?
I then 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 you know, China's uh has a food problem, and in order to get something to come out of the ground, you need phosphates for fertilizer, and you need pot ash for germination and seedlings, and uh you can't.
And there's an abundance and there is let me ask you a question and there's an abundance of it in Ukraine.
Yes, sir, yes, sir.
That that is just like Texas, a big old flat farming area.
Uh they're rich in that.
They've made money on that to develop their cities and their interstructures just like we do here in America.
And uh 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 uh you check the.
I'm running out of time.
How long have you been farming?
I'm fourth generation.
And how many how many acres do you farm and what do you farm?
Well, I'm in the tree farming business uh 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 and high-end trees.
Man, I paid for a couple of these.
I've I I paid a lot of money for a couple of trees uh re not that long ago.
South Carolina with our governor and Florida with their governor, life is wide open.
Yeah, but you gotta understand if people I don't have a problem with people moving.
But if you're gonna move out of one of these liberal states like uh California or New York or Sh or Illinois or New Jersey, uh leave your liberal policies at home.
And if you're not willing to do that, don't move.
Stay right where you are.
Uh don't wreck the next state that you go to and vote for the same stupid policies that ruin the state that you left.
Uh I gotta run Lane, God bless you, man.
Appreciate it.
Eight hundred I I don't know.
I need to know more about farming.
I just don't know.
I'm not the I'm not the farming person.
Linda, you 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 and Anthony is Linda's Mr. Wonderful.
That's how we're he is indeed.
He's fantastic.
All right.
That's gonna wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Hope you set your D V R. We'll have the very latest on the ground in Ukraine.
Dan Hoffman will join us, Laura Trump will join us.
Victor Davis Hanson will join us.
Also, the hearings with Katanji Brown Jackson and how things went today.
Uh both Senator Cruz and Senator Josh Hawley will join us.
They're on the committee, Judiciary Committee, Kellyanne, uh Conway, Mike Huckabee, and much more.
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