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Oct. 17, 2023 - Sean Hannity Show
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What Will Happen to Iran? - October 16th, Hour 1
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You know, it didn't take long.
I I want to start with something I said all last week, and I know I'm a broken record, but please be patient with me.
If you extrapolate out the nine plus million in terms of population in Israel and the 1,300 people killed in in this in these terror attacks, including the 260 kids in the desert, including, you know, 40 dead uh infant bodies, some of them decapitated, some of them charred to de to death.
Uh when you when you factor all that in, extrapolate out, compare with the population of the U.S., it'd be the equivalent of over 38,000 Americans killed in a day.
91101, 2,977 Americans were killed in a single day.
Over 2,000 at Pearl Harbor in a single day.
I mean, it is astronomical.
And it didn't take long, I will tell you, for the mob, the media, and it's only going to get worse as time goes on, and as Israel does what they have to do to respond.
They have been unrelenting in terms of the bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza, and and they're trying to do so with pinpoint accuracy.
They're trying to avoid collateral damage.
How often is it said as have we ever seen?
How often do terrorist groups warn the innocent population that you might want to leave because if you stay, you will die.
Which has now gone on for well over a week, including specific deadlines given to the people of Gaza, communicated in every way imaginable so that there was no ambiguity about where they should go and and how quickly they should uh remove themselves to protect themselves and their family.
And then, of course, you know, Hamas wanting to use as many human shields as possible and trying to force uh innocent people into staying into their houses, not letting them go.
That's a problem.
But now the issue is how do you respond to terrorist attacks like this?
This is n this is this you you have to fight back.
What is the answer to evil?
You've got to eradicate the evil.
What's the answer to cancer?
You eradicate the cancer.
But of course, you know, this this knee jerk reaction.
I mean, it kind of goes back to you can almost take it back to Truman and Hiroshima and Nagasaki and and what ended World War II.
And and to this day, there are people that would argue that it was the wrong move.
Well, how many how many thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, maybe more.
Americans were acceptable to die in a war that was brought To America that we didn't want, that we didn't start, but we had to finish.
And I believe warnings were sent by us too, if I'm not mistaken.
Get to that in a second.
They were, you know, they they tried to warn the civilian population prior to dropping the those bombs.
But it did end World War II.
And victory in Japan came.
And and and war is hell.
War is everything that you think it is.
That's why I wrote the book, Deliver Us from Evil, Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism.
Well, Hannity, you're saying comparing liberals to terrorists and despots, and as usual, I got criticized.
I said, No.
If you don't have the political power and you don't win the political war, then that lends itself.
Look at the appeasement of Obama, Biden, and now Biden alone towards Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror.
It is inexplicable.
But now already the media mob, memory short as they are, just within a week after these horrific terror attacks, massive amounts of human casualties, you know, uh kidnapping of innocent people as hostages,
children, babies with their heads decapitated, more video evidence you could ever want or imagine, and then you know, then we see Friday on a mass scale, the numbers of people that are protesting, and I'm watching them and I'm like, what part of Israel not being the victim here of these people not understanding?
Or the just the outright virulent anti-Semitism around the world, or the pro you know, the day of jihad.
You know, is it okay with people what Hamas has been doing, you know, over the years?
How many tens and and tens of thousands of rockets fired into neighboring Israeli cities?
You know, does anybody not understand what that what life like that must be for them?
You know, if you're one of the 1,300 family or the equivalent of 38,000, if we compare it based on population Americans killed in a single day, what would you want America to do?
I know what I want America to do.
I'd want them to use overwhelming force and and kick the hell out of them and win the war.
It's not a war that Israel started, it's not a war they wanted.
But I can tell you how it's gonna end.
They're gonna win it.
And they're gonna have to win it, unfortunately, uh the hard way because it's not gonna be easy, especially when you have when when Hamas uh in the south and then in the north in Lebanon, they're evacuating border towns in in northern Israel because of Hezbollah, again funded by the Iranians firing rockets into those neighboring cities, that they run the risk of a two-front war, which is extraordinarily difficult.
It's not something they haven't faced before, but it's extraordinarily difficult.
And then you could turn on fake news CNN, there's fake Jake Cappert, you know, decrying to Jake Sullivan the fact that Israel is cutting off supplies and heat and water to civilians.
Who is living among the civilian population?
Who uses civilians as human shields?
Who uses hostages as human shields over the years when they fire rockets into Israel?
Where do they often fire them from?
Hospitals, they fire them from schools.
Why?
Because they're using those locations as human shields, because they know with pinpoint accuracy, Israel will take out the sites where those missiles were fired.
But yet, you know, if in fact, oh, okay, oh, sure, we're gonna listen to fake news CNN, and we're not gonna cut off any supplies, we're not gonna we're gonna turn back the uh on the electricity, heat, water to civilians.
Who benefits from that?
Hamas, which has just been involved in the worst terror attack since the Holocaust for the Jewish people.
Listen to this.
Israel is not Russia, Gaza is not Ukraine.
It's a different situation.
But cutting off supplies, cutting off heat, cutting off water to civilians.
What's the difference?
Well, first, thank you for saying that Israel is not Russia because Israel is not Russia, civilians are civilians.
Civilians are civilians attack.
Yes, absolutely they are, and they deserve, as I said before, access to water and medicine and Food, and we are working actively to ensure that that happens.
And I can tell you this morning, Jake, that I have been in touch with my Israeli counterparts just within the last hour, uh, who report to me that they have in fact turned the water pipe back on in southern Gaza.
That has been the subject of discussion over the course of the past few days.
Okay, I have a great idea.
How about this?
How about the Israel promises to turn on the water uh to Gaza if they release the hostages?
Or how about this?
If they release all the hostages, they'll turn on the water, the electricity, the heat to everybody in Gaza.
How about that, considering you know, all the Israelis that have been killed, including 30 Americans, including up to what, 150 hostages being held.
Maybe you can use that as a point of negotiation in exchange for the things that Jake fake Jake Tapper wants uh, you know, Israel to give them.
It's unbelievable.
By the way, as a side note, as we get started today, in the Rio Gran Valley sector, this was in the New York Post today.
Uh, in just the last week, officials have apprehended 19 Iranians and 17 Syrians just since last Monday, one week ago today.
U.S. Customs Border Protection says four Iranians are considered special interest aliens.
CPB sources, I'm sorry, C BP sources saying to Fox News that one Iranian man in his forties was taken into custody on Sunday morning in Eagle Pass in Texas after crossing the southern border at about 3 a.m.
And that man, along with three other Iranians, are considered of special interest because they are from countries identified by the U.S. government as having conditions that promote or protect terrorism or potentially pose some sort of national security threat to the U.S. Remember the congressional study,
not last week, the week before, 99% of those people that Joe has been aiding and abetting into our country, uh, ninety-nine percent of them are allowed in and and just get transported to the city of their choice with a Biden phone.
What a great country this is.
And then states, yeah, they're responsible for you know food and shelter and and water and medical supplies and education.
Nobody can handle this massive influx.
By the end of this year, it's going to be over eight million illegal immigrants.
Not unvetted.
How many of them are creating terror cells in America?
Because I guarantee you that there are people that do not have our best intentions at heart, as part of those people that may just want a better life for themselves or their family, which is why you must vet anybody entering this country and secure your borders.
This is how dangerous this is.
Last week CBP agents apprehended two Lebanese nationals in Eagle Pass who are considered to be special interest aliens.
CBP has also apprehended an Egyptian man in his forties.
Separately in the Rio Gran Valley sector, officials have apprehended 19 Iranians, 17 Syrians since Monday, and the apprehensions come amid the concerns.
Wow.
Uh that doesn't sound very smart, does it?
No, it does not.
And by the way, Republicans, uh my patience is running thin.
They'll have a vote tomorrow at noon for Jim Jordan as speaker.
I start asking people, because I do my job and I call around and I'm like, okay, uh, what's the latest?
What's happening?
Uh how support for Jim Jordan going.
So I get a list of people that's that I'm told by my sources are not supporting Jim Jordan.
I ask a series of questions.
Hanned he's trying to influence.
Does anybody know what my job is?
Jason, have I not been clear repeatedly on this program what the role what my job is?
Oh, I've been clear about that.
If I had to find it for everybody often enough and over.
Over and over.
Yes, you're right.
And that is, yeah, I'm a member of the press.
I am.
I'm a radio talk show host, I'm a TV talk show host.
Okay, what does that mean?
Well, that means, well, I can produce thousands of hours, radio, TV, straight news coverage.
No opinion at all.
Thousands and thousands of hours.
I can produce thousands of hours of investigative reporting.
Oh, the Russia hoax, the Biden family syndicate, Obama's radical associations.
That's called investigative reporting.
That's part of my Job too.
I report news, straight news some days, and then I also give opinion.
That would mean that's part of my job.
And then we talk sports and we talk culture and we talk about woke and we talk about cancel culture, etc.
Okay, so what is that the equivalent of?
I'm like the entire newspaper.
And I'm honest, I have an opinion, but sometimes I have to do straight news.
Sometimes I do investigative reporting.
Sometimes I'm just giving opinion.
Sometimes we're just talking about the, you know, cultural issues of the day, sports even.
But they claim they're journalists.
So I'm doing my job, working my sources, trying to figure out when Republicans are going to open the people's house again, because I think people's patience by the end of this week is gonna have run out.
And Jim Jordan is now the leading candidate.
And I'm asking people that I've been told repeatedly by a number of people, number of sources that are not voting for Jim Jordan.
I'm asking them why.
Simple questions.
You know, it's it's it's really not that difficult to ask, you know, questions like this.
You know, oh, really, really, really hard questions like uh, okay, is it true you're not supporting Jim Jordan?
I don't think that's a difficult question.
I have my staff send out.
Is it accurate that report?
If not, thank you for telling us.
You know, is it if it is true and you're not supporting him?
Can you explain why when war's breaking out with Israel, Hamas and war in Ukraine and wide open borders and a budget that's unfinished?
Why are you against Jim Jordan for speaker?
Tell us the reasons.
You know, let us know, you know, what your plans are to open up the people's house to work and begin to get done.
And lastly, is there any conditions which you would work with the Democrats to elect a new speaker, which by the way, those news reports are everywhere.
How dare I ask those questions?
Why I'm asking it because it's my job so I can report back to you.
Anyway, we'll see what happens in the days to come.
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Troubling times, that's for sure.
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Well, I don't know what to make of this.
But if you look at what Iranians are saying, because we were told last week that the money that Joe had negotiated for the ransom and release of five Americans, you know, the six billion dollars that they moved from the South Korean bank to a bank in Qatar.
We were told that the Qatari banks that they were, you know, expected to be unfrozen as part of this prisoner swap, but they stopped that.
Iran is now insisting that contrary to claims by the Biden administration, the U.S. has not been able to block Iran's access to that six billion in unfrozen assets currently held in Qatar.
I don't know what's true or not true.
I know a lot of these people lie, they're called propagandists for a reason.
U.S. government does not know that it cannot renege on the agreement according to Iran's permanent mission to the U.N. By the way, the UN is useless.
Even the New York Times is getting some of this right, talking about Iran beginning the plotting with Hamas and this attack on Israel over a year ago.
We'll have more on this on the other side.
Holding them accountable.
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Even the New York Times, they're not buying the Biden administration's lie that there's no evidence tying Iran to Hamas's attack on Israel.
We knew that not this past weekend, the weekend before, an exhaustive piece by the Washington Post.
What is it, Wall Street Journal, rather?
New York Times, quote, dating back to 2022, a close group of leaders from Iran, as well as Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah and Hamas collaborated and assisted in training the Palestinian terrorists that would carry out this unprecedented raid on Israeli settlements near the Gaza Strip, according to the New York Times.
The group of leaders had advanced knowledge of the barbaric attack.
And by the way, remember the Iranian revolutionary guard, Cudz forces, you know, senior leadership, and by the way, uh Syrian affiliated with his uh Hezbollah.
But they had advanced knowledge of all of it.
And this new information gleaned from captured Hamas terrorists who, after their interrogation, revealed they had been training for the attack for a year.
IDF officials told the New York Times that Hamas terrorists they were trained by elite members of Hezbollah, pretty adept at urban guerrilla warfare tactics in Syria at a secret joint command center set up in Lebanon's capital city of Beirut.
Iranians and Syrians, familiar with the plotting, told the outlet.
As part of their training, the Shihadis received instruction on paragliding and hostage taking from Hezbollah terrorists.
Hezbollah, you know, is a terrorist group funded by Iran based in Lebanon on Israel's northern border.
So they got, you know, now the risk of running a two-front war.
One in the south at Gaza and Hamas, one in the north with Lebanon and Hezbollah.
Hamas political organization.
Charter says to, you know, annihilate and wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
You know, they control, you know, the Gaza Strip.
And the both of these terror groups have been designated terror organizations by Israel, the U.S. and other countries around the world.
None of this is good news.
You know, why didn't the intelligence pick that up?
That's a question for another day.
Uh, this is a Gallup poll that came out, March of 2023.
It's not an accident that most of the people you see criticizing Israel, and I'm not sure how this happened.
If you look, break down voting demographically, historically, Jewish Americans tend to vote democratic, Democratic Party.
I think the president that did the most for Israel would be a guy by the name of Donald J. Trump, first by recognizing Jerusalem as its, you know, capital.
Uh, then, of course, recognizing Golan and other other territories in dispute for so long that no other president would do, although many had promised to do.
After a decade in which Democrats have shown this infinity towards the Palestinians, their sympathies in the Middle East now lie more with the Palestinians than the Israelis.
Forty-nine versus 38%, which doesn't make any sense to me.
You know, it's unbelievable.
In private conversations, I'm being told by my sources, and MBC News is even reporting about Israel's response to all of this.
The Biden administration keeps urging restraint.
You know, now that now the fake news media, you know, shake fake tapper, fake Jake Tapper, decrying to Jake Sullivan, well, Israel's cutting off supplies and heat and water to civilians.
Well, living among the civilian population would be those terrorists that killed those as innocent Israelis.
And they're the ones that chopped off the heads of babies.
They're the ones that were raping women.
They're the ones that took.
Now we're told, looking at the Drudge Report, 199 hostages.
Good grief.
You know, why is there any moral ambiguity here?
Biden sent, we we've learned seven million from the American rescue plan, a spending bill meant to combat COVID to a Palestinian relief organization that has previously been accused of providing safe harbor to terrorists in Gaza, referred to effectively as a branch of Hamas.
The American Rescue Plan pushed through Congress, unanimous democratic support in the Senate, almost unanimous democratic support in the House, allocated 33.7 million to the U.N. relief and works agency through the State Department's migration and refugee assistance program, and they have faced intense scrutiny in recent years from critics saying the group has not done enough to prevent aid from reaching the hands of Hamas terrorists.
When I was there, you might remember some of you.
If you've been following my this show, my TV show, when I was deep down in one of the tunnels, there are hundreds of them that was dug and built from Gaza to Israel for the purpose of killing and capturing innocent Israelis.
Well, guess what?
That was money that was designated for hospitals and schools.
American money spent, Israeli money spent on what?
What turned out to be terror tunnels instead of hospitals and schools?
House Republicans now moving to ban Biden from transporting Palestinian refugees to America.
Well, on top of the seven and a half million illegal immigrants that have been unvetted allowed into the country.
I don't think at this point that we have the ability to take in any more refugees from anywhere.
And by the way, this fierce in light of the indoctrination of young children, and we showed this last week on TV.
All these young kids from the youngest ages, their cartoons are indoctrinating people to just hate the Israelis and quote the Jews.
You can see it when I play these cartoons.
Anyway, it looks like momentum for Jim Jordan has shifted.
Um, and he sent out a letter, dear colleague letter.
The principles that unite us as Republicans are far greater than the disagreements that divide us.
The country and our conference cannot afford us attacking each other right now.
It's time we unite, get back to work on behalf of the American people.
He wrote the role of speaker is to bring all Republicans together.
That's what I intend to do.
Our goal will be to empower our committees and committee chairs to take the lead on the House's legislative work through regular orders, and this will bring us together to pass responsible legislation to fund our government, support our military.
I will work tirelessly to defend and expand our majority and help every Republican member back at home.
Pretty, you know, pretty interesting cover letter.
But there are some Republicans, according to reports, that are willing to work with Democrats to pick the next speaker.
So, you know, this is where I got criticized for daring to, you know, ask questions after my sources told me that certain people were not going to be supporting Jim Jordan.
I'm asking if it's true.
I'm asking, you know, you know, during these times, you know, where war's breaking out with Israel and Hamas and the war in Ukraine and wide open borders and a budget that's unfinished, and and every day that passes, the deadline gets that that much more real.
Why would you be against Jim Jordan?
And if you are, tell me what your plans are for opening up the people's house so this work can get done, because until they get a speaker, the house is closed.
And these I, you know, these band-aid fixes of, oh, we'll just empower somebody for 30 days.
That's not an answer.
Or we'll work with Democrats, that's definitely the dumbest idea I think I've ever heard.
And that's another question I asked.
You know, under any conditions, you know, would you choose to work with Democrats in the process of electing a speaker?
In other words, you want to make Hakeem Jeffries a speaker?
Okay, that's another dumb idea.
So we'll see how this plays out.
We expect the vote, I think, is scheduled for noon tomorrow.
You know, the problem with these votes is in conference, they are anonymous.
When they get to the floor, we'll know exactly who the people are.
So I was trying to find out ahead of time based on my sources telling me it's this person, this person, this person.
A lot of people were very responsive, gave me very respectful answers.
And, you know, um, but let's see how this plays out.
If Republicans, I think after tomorrow, after the end of this week, I think people's patience will have run out on a lot of these issues.
I really do.
Um Biden saying Hamas must be eliminated.
But then why are we reading that behind the scenes him and Blinken are trying to pressure Israel not to not not to go at this too hard?
What does that mean?
He's on 60 minutes last night, mumbling, bumbling, and stumbling.
Biden is saying his message for Hezbollah, which is already reportedly in new border skirmishes, that the Israelis now have had to, and in the north, they have where where Hezbollah is at Lebanon.
You know, they've had to, you know, evacuate border towns.
The Israelis have.
And, you know, asked about Israel forces, Israeli forces, and you know, these terror groups supported by Iran.
And okay, well, what are they going to do if they now have a two-front war?
Joe's answer was don't.
Don't.
Okay, Scott Pelley, don't.
That's your answer.
What are you going to do about it?
I know that they've been talking about activating special forces if they have intelligence to rescue Americans held hostage.
That would be great.
I I always worry about hostages in a situation like this.
You have to.
The odds become lower every day they're held, and especially when we don't know where they are.
Maybe, maybe their intelligence sources will somehow come up with that answer.
Um, you know, Blinken back in Israel as Netanyahu, Netanyahu said he's going to exterminate these monsters.
That's what he's going to do.
I don't think there's any ambiguity there.
Anyway, it's uh, you know, it's the possibility of a two-front war is very real.
Biden wants Hamas to be eliminated.
Well, the only way you're going to do that is fight a full-fledged war.
And I wish that there would never Be in war any cult what we call collateral damage.
I wish.
I wish in World War II, America wasn't attacked and never had to bomb the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But America, like Israel, Israel's been warning innocent citizens to get out, telling them exactly where it's safe to go.
Just like before Hiroshima, Nagasaki.
The first round of leaflets.
I think they were long.
My memory says the May leaflets, if I don't know why I remember that.
The leaflets did not directly reference an atom bomb, but it's unclear whether they were used to warn citizens in Hiroshima Nagasaki.
But the second round of leaflets featured a picture of a mushroom cloud and a message about Soviet invasion.
The historical record's unclear a little bit, but it seems as though those leaflets did not make it to Nagasaki until after it too had been hit.
But anyway, late later leaflets inform the Japanese population about their government surrender before the Emperor's official announcement.
I mean, it is it.
I know to this day people want to debate these things.
I don't know how you debate them.
So I'm listening to Biden eliminate them, but we're told behind the scenes they're pressing Israel not to go too hard.
You know, it's warning of Israel's warning Israel against occupying Gaza.
Well, how well then what is the answer if you have Hamas still hiding behind human shields?
By the way, now the numbers 199 hostages just got updated.
We knew of 1555 this morning.
Marco Rubio urging the Biden administration to cancel visas for foreign nationals that support Hamas's attack on Israel.
I think my biggest shock this weekend, starting on Friday with the day of the world national Jihad Day, was how many people around the world protesting?
It's actually chilling.
IDF is gonna evacuate civilians from 28 communities alone the Lebanese border, as I just said.
Iran is now warning Israel directly and through the UN against the ground offensive in Gaza.
What option do they have when they have all their hostages?
And they attacked and killed all these innocent Israelis.
Israel, 28 communities now to the north are being evacuated.
This is a massive war that is now underway.
And it really hasn't.
The real offensive from Israel has not begun yet.
And we know that Iran has their fingerprints all over this.
And what role America should play here?
Well, if we can get our hostages out, I would like to see us do that.
I don't know how possible that is.
I'm trying to be realistic, but also hopeful.
You know, and and everyone said what proportionality means in the war against terror.
At the end of this, the only conclusion that I can see that ends this is that no longer can Hamas use Israeli hospital.
I'm sorry, hospitals in Gaza, hospitals and schools in Gaza as staging areas to fire rockets into border towns.
That that threat must be eliminated for the security of Israel, especially as these rockets have become more devastating over time.
How do I know?
I was there.
You can see the progression in the back of the police department in Sorot of border town.
That's the town where they have underground playgrounds for kids.
Not enough time to get into uh bomb shelters.
So the playgrounds are bomb shelters underground, indoors.
Great.
Vitamin D. Whatever who needs vitamin D, right?
All right, we're loaded up.
Uh when we come back, presidential candidate and also senator from the great state of South Carolina, Tim Scott will be joining us.
The mob, the media.
Oh, how hysterical they are now becoming, which by the way was predictable.
I've been calling this from day one.
How soon would they forget that Israel was the victim of terror?
Now beginning to sound like our college campuses.
We'll get into that.
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