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April 17, 2024 - Sean Hannity Show
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Appeasing Iran - April 16th, Hour 3
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I can't take the lying that is never-ending non-stop.
You know, it's just a flurry of lies.
We've gone over the history of the Biden administration and their appeasement of Iran.
We went back to the Obama-Biden administration.
Remember, you know, estimates on the amount of money that became available with the Iranian deal of Obama and Biden with the $150 billion.
We talked at length about the $400 million in a cargo plane in cash and other currency dumped on their tarmac and how insane this is.
We talked a lot about how important it was that Donald Trump stepped up as president and Donald Trump stopped the Iranians from being able to sell their oil on the world market.
And those sanctions had real, real impact on the Iranians, where we were beginning to see the early signs of people rising up against this regime.
Joe Biden becomes president starting in March of 2021.
He's importing 66,000 barrels of oil a day under Joe Biden.
Would the president welcome Iranian oil into the U.S.?
Well, we'll talk about that if we get to that point.
That was in February.
By March, they were importing it.
Then, of course, Joe wanted to transfer and basically pay ransom of $6 billion that he had freed up for Iran.
And then he gave a waiver to the Iranians to get $10 billion in payments from the Iraqis for electricity.
And then the worst thing that he did is he turned a blind eye and allowed the Iranians, in spite of the sanctions on them, to go ahead and produce oil, resulting in anywhere from $80 billion to $100 billion.
Now, what does that money do for the Iranians?
Well, that, number one, strengthens their ability to be an oppressive regime.
It allows them to fund these proxy wars, whether it's Hezbollah in the north out of Lebanon or Hamas in the south out of Gaza or the Houdi rebels.
It lets them do all of this.
None of this would happen.
And then buy weapons that they're now providing to Russia.
Now Russia is reciprocating by showing military support and military aid to Iran as they took this new unprecedented step and escalation in attacking Israel directly on Saturday night.
Why do you think Biden has been calling for an immediate ceasefire after October 7th?
Why doesn't Biden have the moral clarity and sense to understand that radical Islamists need to be defeated?
Why wouldn't this country support Israel in their war on terrorism?
Why would Joe Biden make Israel the enemy in this case?
Because his entire party has been radicalized and they sympathize with the wrong people here.
And as a result, Joe Biden, by saying, well, we're not going to be with you if you return fire against Iran, he's basically emboldening the Iranians to do whatever the hell they want to Israel at any point that they want.
What is wrong with him?
You know, the Biden administration waives sanctions on Iranian civilian nuclear activities.
When asked to make a comment on the threat of Iran attacking Israel, his one big answer, don't.
Hey, Joe, don't didn't work.
They did.
And you saw the raining rockets fired, cruise missiles and drone attacks.
At what point do you stand on the right side of history?
Not just Joe, it's the entire Democratic Party.
Chuck Schumer calling for new elections as Israel is now, you know, reeling and battling back after the worst terror attack in their history.
Nancy Pelosi, you know, she has to weigh in as well.
Why keep Nancy Pelosi out of it?
She doesn't even want Biden to sell weapons to Israel, which would render them, you know, helpless in this war against terrorism that they have to engage in.
And now the modern, extreme, radicalized Democratic Party, the entire Democratic Party basically has become the squad.
You know, Congresswoman Talib posting videos accusing Biden of supporting genocide.
All Biden cares about here is he is looking at his eroding base.
He sees it with African Americans, with Hispanic Americans, young people, suburban women.
And he's also seeing it in massive numbers by the radicals, for example, out of Dearborn in Michigan, among them, some of them chanting death to Israel, death to America.
And they saw the numbers in the Democratic presidential primary, and 18.9% of voters are uncommitted.
They didn't vote for Joe Biden over this issue.
Over 100,000 people in total out of Michigan.
So Joe Biden, rather than put principal first, has abandoned our number one ally.
That's what's going on here.
All right, let's get back to our phones.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let us say hi to Jeff in Michigan.
Hey, Jeff, how are you?
What the hell happened to your state?
Man, I wish I knew.
Other than the children are in the office, and we really need to get some adults back up here.
As you were just saying with the chants that were going on down in Detroit, which just sickened me that people in America would be chanting death to Israel, death to America.
America really needs to open its eyes and start paying attention and looking at the bigger picture.
You know, back in January, the Chinese nationalists got pulled over with over 100 mice in the trunk of the car and thank the good Lord above that the police officers did their job and tracked them down and figured out what was going on because with no bail laws, the only law they committed crime they committed was driving with no identification, no license and stuff.
But they went to a bio lab.
I couldn't stress this enough for people to start opening their eyes and paying attention.
An underground biolab totally funded by the Chinese government.
Xi Jianping was in California in January.
Do you think he went and visited the biolab?
Probably did.
Well, I can tell you right now, the fact that American money was going to the Wuhan Virology Lab, NIH money funneled through the EcoHealth Alliance right into a lab that they knew was involved to gain a function research, a lab that they knew that was involved with coronavirus research.
And by the way, it's continuing today, and we were lied to at the highest levels.
Read Senator Rand Paul's book about Dr. Fauci.
It is eye-opening.
I forgot to mention in my little rant there that, you know, the Biden administration, they're just full of liars.
The border is secure.
The border is safe.
The border is closed.
Blah, blah, blah.
You know, it's Trump's fault that this is all happening in the Middle East.
Donald Trump is responsible for my bad economic policies and inflation.
John Kirby actually denied knowing about the billions and billions of dollars that were unfrozen for the Iranian leaders.
Listen.
Now that we know that the Iranians do not listen to President Biden's public warnings, is there any regret here about unfreezing billions of dollars for Iranian leaders during the president's administration?
What unfreezing are you talking about?
He unfroze billions of dollars.
Really?
I don't think so.
It's for humanitarian purposes, but doesn't that but you don't believe me Well, doesn't that free up money for them to spend on other stuff?
Where do you get the money for an unprecedented number of munitions to fire in Israel?
So first of all, I'm betting if they're sitting in Tehran, they're taking it seriously when President Biden says he's going to defend Israel.
We put skin in the game, a whole heck of a lot of it, and knocked almost everything out of the sky.
So I'm betting they're taking it pretty seriously.
And as for this unfreezing, none of that fund, none of those funds.
Funds set up in an account, by the way, by the previous administration goes directly to the supreme leader of the IRGC, can only be used for humanitarian purposes.
And we're watching that account very, very closely to make sure that that's what happens.
Joining us now, Mossav Hassan Youssef, a Palestinian author of the upcoming book, it's going to be out in August from Hamas to America.
My story of defying terror, facing the unimaginable, and finding redemption in the land of opportunity.
Anyway, his father was one of the founders of Hamas, correct?
That's correct.
And your life took you on a very interesting journey.
And that is where, at one point, you found yourself as a Hamas terrorist.
What changed you?
You know, this is a long journey of transformation.
Today I'm an American, I'm an American citizen, and I abide by the American laws and the American Constitution.
That was my path.
Did you feel guilty being part of a terrorist organization?
Listen, it doesn't need lots of intelligence to know that violence is a big end, and raping, killing, torturing, abusing children, using human shields, blowing up buses, killing people indiscriminately does not require genius to know that it's wrong.
Musk people are afraid to pay the price to do the right thing.
They prefer to stay in their darkness.
And I choose not to stay in the darkness.
I fought.
And in the process, I lost my family, I lost everything.
But this doesn't mean that I lost the war.
Because the final thing is how do we serve humanity, not only serve the tribe and try to compromise our truth for the sake of the family, for the sake of the society?
Isn't this what everybody is doing?
Well, but the problem is, is that you have, for example, in Gaza, from the earliest ages, young children are indoctrinated to, quote, hate the Jews and kill Israelis.
And once that indoctrination takes hold, there's very little free thinking that takes place in the minds of people that have been brainwashed.
Obviously, you are able to overcome your indoctrination.
What do you think the difference was?
Why don't more people overcome it like you did?
Yes, it's a rigid conditioning.
It meant for me to die, to die to my false identities.
You know, I was born free.
I was not born a Muslim.
I was not born a Palestinian.
I was born free.
Children are just children.
But then the mullahs and the sheikhs, the imams, the religious authorities, the politicians conspire against the children and they used us in the worst possible way.
They wanted us to die to serve their political agendas.
And they're still doing this until now.
And this is part of my anger.
This is part of my frustration when I see the death of the children in Gaza.
And there are only Palestinian criminals.
They are con artists.
They have been exploiting what's so-called revolution by the name of occupation, by the name of colonialism, by the name of resistance.
They have all these fancy terminology.
And their goal is only to get rich, to get power at the expense of children, at the expense of generations.
They have been playing this for 70 years since Yasser Arafat and all the foreign entities taken advantage of.
Let me ask you this.
What should Israel's goal be in their battle with Hamas and Iran?
Should their battle be victory?
Should their battle be restraint?
What do you say?
We only have about a minute.
Look, Israel is not alone in this fight.
I am with Israel in this fight.
And it's a vow that we will not retreat until Hamas is defeated, until Hamas is eradicated.
Now, Iran is the root cause of this problem.
The Islamic regime of Iran, they are not only causing regional trouble.
They want global chaos.
They want to change the world order.
They want to turn it into an Islamic revolution.
And this is not acceptable.
Israel cannot finish this job alone.
We need to give Israel the support the United States need to get on board full power.
You know, our president is weak.
Our president is weak and has not taken a firm stand to tell Iran, what the heck are you doing?
They just launched hundreds of missiles.
Israel is a very tiny country.
And what are we doing about this?
The adequate response is to hit the Iranian nuclear program now.
We cannot allow any Islamic regime to attain a nuclear power.
It would be a disaster.
It's already a disaster.
We cannot give them our technology, our intellectual property.
Then we give them a nuclear weapon.
This regime is irresponsible.
And it's not only Israel's responsibility to stand against all the evil of the Middle East.
Israel is fighting on how many fronts?
In the north, in the south, and such a tiny small nation on its own.
And what is the responsibility of the superpower, the president of the superpower?
He thinks that he's showing tolerance, but on the other side, it's perceived as weakness.
This is what I've been saying for 20 years, that Middle Easterners don't understand tolerance.
They only understand the language of the sword.
And if you show tolerance, they think it's weakness.
This is their mentality.
They don't think like Westerners.
We need to understand their mentality.
I couldn't say it any better.
Mossab Hassan Youssef, son of Hamas.
His father was one of the founders of Hamas.
Look forward to your new book and having you back soon.
Thank you, sir.
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Let's check in with Sean in Mississippi.
What's up, Sean, a trucker?
And to every trucker out there, Breaker19, thank you for all you're doing because our store shelves would be pretty bare and empty without y'all working so hard.
How you doing?
I'm good, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
By the way, are you looking forward to the Biden mandate for an electric rig?
Absolutely not.
Yeah, there's not one trucker I know that wants that.
No, we have trouble finding a parking spot.
I could only imagine the trouble we would have trying to find a charging station for them.
That's such a good point.
You know what's amazing?
And most people don't know this, and you can confirm this is true because I have friends in the trucking business.
For example, let's say your truck has 300,000, 350,000, 350,000 miles on it.
Now, true or false, do you go out and buy a new rig?
Or is it often the case that truckers will bring their truck in for service?
They'll get a loaner in the meantime.
And they strip the truck down of the chassis.
They basically rebuild the truck from the bottom up.
You have a brand new truck with a brand new engine with an updated chassis, updated interior, and new tires and everything in between, new brakes, and you're good to go for another 300, 400,000 miles.
Is that true?
Yes, sir, it is.
Absolutely.
And it's a lot cheaper than buying a new rig, right?
Oh, a whole lot cheaper.
Right.
It is.
Anyway, what's on your mind today?
Glad you called.
Thanks for what you do.
And I appreciate you taking my call.
But, you know, I want to touch on the border crisis.
You know, all the illegal immigrants coming over to our country, I'm just kind of nervous that, you know, with you saying it's not a matter of if, but when we get hit with a terrorist tech, to me, their perfect opportunity would be you to use these 18-wheelers because you see so many people not being able to speak English.
I'm trying to put this in a nice way.
Not being able to speak English from those countries over here driving 18-wheelers and look how much stuff they could pack into it.
They get the seat places that make us vulnerable.
And that's my concern with our border being weak like it is.
So you're basically saying if they loaded up an 18-wheeler with, you know, really powerful weapons, that that could create a lot of damage and chaos, correct?
absolutely i mean if you're 100 you're 100 right Now, there are, for example, in New York, many people don't know this.
I wouldn't disclose it if it wasn't already public, but I know people that have gotten like a medical exam with some type of, they shoot them with radiology dye.
I don't know the whole process, whatever.
But they have radioactive material in them, and they have these monitors throughout the city of New York that instantly pick them up, and police are like stopping people on the street and like, you know, wondering if they have some type of radiology device that could bring damage.
And they're saying, well, I just got back from the doctor.
What are you talking about?
But at least that technology exists for some level of defense.
Now, with that said, there are a whole lot of things you can do.
What did we learn with what happened in the Oklahoma City bombing?
You know, a bunch of fertilizer and fuel caused an awful lot of damage, didn't it?
It did.
And it only took 19 terrorists to bring us to our knees on 9-11.
That's a great point.
And I'm not wrong in my prediction that there are terror cells in this country that are plotting, planning, and scheming.
They will attack us.
We're going to get hit, and we're going to get hit probably way harder than you think.
Absolutely.
And I agree with you on that.
And I hope, I'm like you, I hope that we're both wrong that it don't happen, but it's bound to happen.
With the government that we have in here now, it's bound to happen.
Unfortunately, the risk is much higher.
That's why 200 and two days from now matters an awful lot.
I don't care who you are.
And Republicans, I'll say it again.
And I know you think I'm a broken record, and I'm okay with that.
And that is, please do not resist voting early, voting by mail.
Please do not resist volunteering.
Please, you know, do everything you can now so you don't wake up the morning after the night before election day and wish you had done more.
Get involved now.
They need your help.
All right, my friend.
Listen, Godspeed on the road.
Stay safe, okay?
All right.
Thank you, sir.
There's a lot of jackasses that can't drive on the road.
I deal with them all the time.
Anyway, back to our phone.
Sean is Sean number two.
This one is in North Carolina.
I guess I'm Sean number three today.
Anyway, Sean, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hey, how's it going?
Thanks for taking my call.
What's going on?
No, I just wanted to bring up an issue about Arab voters.
My wife is from Iraq.
We've been married for eight years.
And I can just see within the community that many of them have switched their stance and will be voting for Trump.
You know, the New York Post had a front cover story about an Iranian woman who, you know, is explaining how real young people and real people in Iran think that they don't support this regime.
Donald Trump, by taking the position of bankrupting Iran, was working.
If Iran did not get this influx of hundreds of billions of dollars because of Biden importing their oil and turning a blind eye to sanctions and providing sanction waivers, they wouldn't have the money to be fomenting terror and these proxy wars with the Houdi rebels and Hamas and Hezbollah and these attacks that they have been involved in now themselves against Israel.
They wouldn't be giving Putin military support.
Now Putin is returning the favor, giving military support.
None of this would have happened.
But nobody wants to get that deep into the weeds, unfortunately, which is sad for our country.
They're very aware of the soft power policies of Democrats abroad, and they're sick of it.
And I had eight or 12 mail-in ballots.
I didn't really want to last election, but I did.
What did you do with eight mail-in ballots?
I signed for them as a witness signature for you didn't do anything illegal.
You signed the witness part.
Right.
And every single one of those will be Trump voters this election and many more, all their family, many Arab Americans, Christian Arabs, Muslim Arabs.
So you were a witness of legal ballot harvesting, it sounds like.
Okay.
All right, man.
Appreciate the call.
Thank you.
Adam, Utah, next.
Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Well, you can call me your Kraunberger buddy.
Hey, guys.
By the way, just the fact that you mentioned that, and right now I'm so freaking hungry, I really don't like you because I love, I'm only kidding.
I love Kraunberger.
You know, everyone makes fun of me because somebody calls from whatever city and it's like, oh, Kraunberger.
Oh, In-N-Out Burger.
Oh, so-and-so barbecue.
Oh, whatever.
Or Waffle House or Cracker Barrel or, you know, all the places I love to eat that I only eat when I'm on the road.
I eat at when I'm on the road.
Yep.
But, hey, my question is, I'm looking for an opinion.
Do you think that history will record these times as the early days of World War III?
Why or why not?
It's a great question.
I hope and pray the answer is no.
However, it would be very, very naive of me to say that.
And let me just, you know, I wrote a book, I think it was back in 2004 when I published it.
It was called Deliver Us from Evil, Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism.
Liberals got mad at the title, but if you don't win the political battles, then you're going to have the appeasement policies like we have in the case of Biden.
And if in the last century, if it's any indication of the depravity of what man's inhumanity of man can look like, then it doesn't bode well for the world situation now with war in Europe, war in the Middle East, the new axis of evil, Iran and China and Russia.
Russia now quickly coming to Iran's defense and military aid, it seems like.
But if you go back to the last century, what do we have?
We had Mao, China, Stalin, Russia, Hitler, Germany, Mussolini, Italy.
You had Pol Pot, the killing fields, Tojo, Japan.
And when you add up all the human death and destruction in that century alone, my dad spent four years in the Pacific fighting in World War II.
And you add it all together.
The estimates are about 100 million human beings slaughtered in the last century alone.
Now, we had World War I, we had World War II.
We know how World War II ended, war in Japan, victory over Japan.
It ended with Harry Truman launching atom bombs into Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And to this day, that decision is questioned.
I don't question it.
I think he made the right call.
Hard call, not fun.
But, you know, we didn't start that war.
They attacked us at Pearl Harbor.
They dragged us into it.
It became inevitable that the world had to unite against Nazi Germany because of a madman that had taken over.
Evil does exist.
I would argue that the regime in Iran is evil.
It's evil on the micro level, the way it treats its citizens, the way it treats women.
If you're gay or lesbian and you live in Iran, they won't blink an eye.
They're going to throw you off a building and kill you.
They're evil in terms of the proxy wars that they're funding and having fought in the entire region and the death and destruction all associated with it.
This attack against Israel was not make-pretend.
It was real.
They talk about wiping Israel off the map.
I think they believe it.
I think the ideology of convert or die is very real.
I think you have entire generations now that have been indoctrinated into this mentality that if you die as a matter of jihad, that God will reward you with 72 virgins is real.
People with that sick ideology exist in this world today.
So it would be really dumb, naive, and stupid of me to not believe it could happen again.
History does have this uncanny ability to repeat itself, doesn't it?
It certainly seems, let me put it another way.
I've been saying this, and I mean this.
I have never been more concerned about the future of this country on an economic level than I am now.
I've never been concerned about the situation in the world as it's currently configured as I am now.
In large part, it's because we have the worst president we've ever had in our lifetime, both on domestic policy, economic policy, border policy, energy policy, and he's abdicated America's role as the leader of the free world.
In its absence, that void has been filled by the likes of China, Russia, and Iran that are now, I call, the new axis of evil.
So the answer to your question is, do I think this could escalate into World War III?
I do.
Yes, I do.
As part of that, do you think there would be some nuclear exchanges?
I think the idea of a tactical nuke, I've been reading about it all week, the possibility of tactical nukes being used in conflict.
Yeah.
Do I think Putin's capable of it?
I do.
Do I think the Mullahs in Iran are capable of it?
I do.
Do I think Kim Jong-un is capable of it?
I do.
Do I think President Xi's capable of it?
Probably, ironically, less so because he's a little bit smarter and more strategic, but I do think it's possible, yes.
It's a shame.
Yeah.
These are dangerous, chilling times.
I don't think you can write a novel in anybody like this that anyone would believe at this time.
But anyway, 800-941-Sean is a number.
I wish I had more time to talk about this.
It's sad, but yeah, I do believe that.
Linda, you disagree with anything I said?
No, not at all.
It is very sad and depressing, like so many other things these days.
Yeah, well, I'd say, you know, get to your pastor's house, even though you won't let me talk to him and pray.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
We'll update you on day two of this so-called trial in New York, which is just unbelievable to me.
Nobody in the media wants to tell you the real truth, facts around it, which just shows you how corrupt they are.
We'll have the latest also out of Israel.
We have Marco Rubio.
We have Kerry Kupic who's going to join us.
Alan Dershowitz and Greg Jarrett will be joining us together.
Larry Kudlow, Mike Huckabee, Steve Miller, all joining us news.
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