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June 19, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Iran vs. Israel - June 18th, Hour 2
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We have not spoken about this conflict.
We haven't spoken at length about the conflict with Israel and Iran.
To me, the Trump doctrine is very, very simple.
The same guy that wiped out the ISIS Caliphate, the same guy that wiped out Baghdadi and his top lieutenants and associates, the same guy, Donald Trump, that took out Soleimani on a tarmac, has said since 2011, we actually went back and looked, that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
He has said it again and again and again.
And I think we are now at the hour is midnight.
They've gotten very close with their enrichment at 60%, according to every published report, and even the IAEA is saying so.
And it takes about three weeks to get to 90% weapons grade enrichment.
And that is a clear and present danger for the world.
They're the number one state sponsor of terror.
So I think it is the Trump doctrine that they can't have a nuclear weapon.
But I also believe it's consistent with things that Donald Trump has done in the past and consistent with the Trump doctrine, the part of the Trump doctrine that says, well, we're never going to be a part of these forever wars anymore and foreign entanglements.
This is about a country that has stated openly they want death to Israel, death to America.
They have terrorized America and killed many Americans over the years.
I went through that in the last hour.
Are we in agreement, Mr. O'Reilly?
Essentially, but there's a change in tactics.
So I wrote a book called Killing the Killers, and I ran down all of the things you just mentioned, Baghdadi and Soleimani, ISIS destruction, all of it.
And it was all methodically done.
And it was all done very quietly.
It wasn't like this one.
And what people may not know is that we did partner up with Israel to take out Soleimani, and Netanyahu backed out of that arrangement at the last minute, which angered Donald Trump.
It was never really made public.
But Trump does not trust Netanyahu.
I can say that with certainty.
So this one's a little bit different because it's got a little more urgency to it.
And I just did my research this morning, and you may know more than me on this, but I don't think Donald Trump has made up his mind yet about U.S. air power.
That's what I have right now.
He really hasn't made a decision.
Is that what you have?
No.
Okay.
So you feel that you have that he has made a decision, which would be that.
All indications are, now it's subject to change, is that The president has been very, very firm.
I mean, it's pretty fascinating that Donald Trump, president of the United States, can put up a social media post and the population of Tehran starts leaving in droves and they can't even get out of, they can't get out of Dodge fast enough.
Sure.
It is very, I think that I don't think he gives idle threats.
I think he means it.
I think he's given the Iranians every opportunity for peace.
Steve Witkoff has been over backwards for peace, and it is an existential threat to the entire world.
And he understands that part, just like the ISIS Caliphate was, and just like Soleimani was.
And I don't think he's going to have any qualms about taking out that final facility.
All right.
So let me interview you.
We did this a couple of weeks ago, and everybody loved it.
Is it going to be a cupcake interview or is it going to be a real tough one?
So you believe that, and I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it's inevitable that the U.S. Air Force is going to go up and bomb, what is it, Furlough Mountain?
Is that what it is?
That is correct.
This is the one that is buried 300 feet deep into the ground.
That is correct.
So you believe that these plans have been drawn up and they're just ready for the president to say go.
Is that what you believe?
Now, has the president told me that?
He has not.
Okay.
Only the U.S. military can take out Iran's most dangerous nuclear site.
I'm reading the tea leaves, and we both know Donald Trump for this length of time.
We are now on the precipice of taking this number one state sponsor of terror that has a history of killing Americans and taking that nuclear threat, which would hold the world hostage off the table forever.
It's a window of opportunity because they don't have any missile defense system because the Israelis knocked it out.
They own the skies over Iran.
The Israelis took out two of the three sites.
And the one remaining site is Iran's most dangerous site.
And it's the Bordeaux fuel enrichment plant.
And you're right, it's on the side of a mountain.
It's buried 300 feet below ground.
And my conversations with military professionals think it's going to take four bunker buster bombs to take that sucker out.
Not one, not two.
If the U.S. gets involved, then the unintended consequences are going to be on us.
So the last that I heard was that the president was still holding out.
The Mullahs will surrender unconditionally, which would mean that the United Nations, with a presence from the United States, would have to be that, would go in and physically force the dismantlement of all of this uranium enrichment.
That's what an unconditional surrender would mean.
And Trump was still hoping that would happen for the Mullahs to save their own butts because if it doesn't.
If the Mullahs did that, then I could see that scenario play out.
Actually, I would prefer that scenario.
And that's what Trump said.
But it would mean, Bill, an unconditional surrender.
It would mean the next day our guys go in there and we start dismantling that place immediately.
Absolutely.
And I don't think the Iranians will ever give into that.
And Netanyahu couldn't object to that, even though Netanyahu wants to just incinerate the whole place.
No, I don't think Netanyahu would object to that.
If it was a real dismantlement of their nuclear program that removes the threat, I think Netanyahu, I've known Bibi for 30 years.
I have every belief.
You know, what's the downside for him?
There's no downside.
He wants the Mullahs out, too.
But from what I understand, Trump is not going to say the Mullers have to go.
He would make a deal with the Mullers that they would surrender, give up their nuke ambitions, but they would keep their jobs.
They keep their jobs, but you know what?
Israel has their own say in this.
And knowing Donald Trump, like, for example, the Israelis could have taken out their entire power grid, which is gas-driven, interestingly.
And all of their refineries are clustered on one little island.
Most people don't know that either.
And it's a layup target for the Israelis.
They so far have only hit one refinery to send a message.
But there are other options on the table for the Israelis to just devastate them.
Absolutely, but Trump doesn't want that.
Donald Trump is not.
Donald Trump's not directing what the Israelis are doing.
Oh, he has a lot to say, Hannity.
He definitely has input.
They definitely need our support.
The president has been very supportive of Israel, completely supportive.
I believe we probably have helped in more ways than we know.
But at the end of the day, Israel is the country that's getting pounded with hundreds of thousands of rockets over the last few decades, and they're sick of it.
Yeah, and understandably so.
We're sympathetic to that.
But let me do some reporting on the Hannity radio program.
So this didn't get a lot of play at all.
But there were phone calls.
And one of the reasons that Trump had to come back from Alberta from the G7, number one, he didn't want to be there anyway.
He doesn't really have a lot of regard for those people there.
And number two, he ought to talk to both Xi and Putin.
And he did.
And he had to lay out worst case scenario, which is U.S. bombers go in.
And best case scenario, which is Mullah's surrender.
But he ought to take their temperature about, okay, we have to take them out.
That's not debatable.
They're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
So you both have to understand that.
The calls were separate, of course.
Okay, you both understand it's inevitable and it's not going to change that they're not going to get a nuclear weapon.
So both Putin and Xi know that.
And Trump was trying to gauge their reaction to it, okay, whether they were going to be bellicose, and they weren't.
In fact, Putin, who plays both sides, you know, said, look, I'll help you negotiate.
And then Trump said, no, we don't need Vladimir to just negotiate Ukraine, which was happy to see that, by the way.
You don't want that weasel Putin in there.
But he ought to take their temperature, both countries, to see if there was going to be any react if we do use air power.
And the consensus from the White House is, no, not anything.
They'll make statements and do it.
You know how it is.
But behind the scenes, are they going to do anything to us?
No.
Okay.
The Arabs are the same way.
They're not going to do anything.
It's not going to be any oil shenanigans.
Are you kidding?
The Arabs are going to be celebrating.
Egypt, Jordan, the Saudis, the Emirates, the Gulf states, they're all going to be celebrating.
They don't want, they've already partnered with the U.S. to prevent Iranian hegemony.
Just like Assad in Syria, nobody wanted him.
And, you know, he's over in Russia now because Putin's the only one to take him.
That's where the Ayatollah may end up pretty soon.
Iran has no allies, none.
But Trump does not want the United States to be portrayed as this military-hungry expansionist power.
He doesn't.
And, you know, the most dissent on this is coming from inside the United States.
The MAGA people, Bannon, that crew, and then the hate Trumpers.
All right, quick break, right back.
More with all things simple man Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com as we continue.
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It is in complete alignment with what Donald Trump has said.
I mean, I've been following the intramural debate.
People have tried to drag me into it.
I'm just ignoring it because I think it's silly because people obviously didn't pay attention to Soleimani or the ISIS Caliphate or Baghdadi and all his associates.
This is very consistent with what Donald Trump has done in the past, and it is in keeping with the Trump doctrine, which I support.
And I don't believe in forever wars either.
Descent in the world on military action toward Iran by U.S. is coming from the U.S. Have you seen the polls, Bill?
79% of Democrats oppose Iran getting nuclear weapons.
79% of independents, all adults, 79%.
Do you know where that's coming from?
That's coming from fake news CNN.
If you look at Robert Kahale, Trafalgar, Insider Advantage, Matt Towery, the question, what is your opinion of President Trump's position that Iran must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapon by any means necessary?
Response: 74.4% approve of the president doing what is necessary to get rid of it.
Harvard, Harris, 85% say Tehran must never get a bomb, ever.
I mean, these polls, and there's more if you want me to keep going.
No, look, I think the folks are on the side of neutralizing Iran, especially in this area.
But the headlines are garnered by the dissenters.
You know what that is?
You talked about this little intramural battle within the MAGA world.
First of all, I think the argument is superfluous and silly because it's almost like people just, their memories have been wiped clean of Donald Trump and what his true doctrine is.
Of course, it's not forever wars.
He doesn't want that.
I will tell you what Donald Trump's goal here would be, in my opinion.
His goal would be: okay, we have a window of opportunity to, as safely as possible, every military action has danger, to take out their nuclear sites, rid the world of this terrorist state having that weapon that would hold the world hostage.
And then the next most important thing he would probably do would be to protect our interest in the region very closely because the Iranians are unpredictable.
Whatever missiles they might have left, they might try to fire at us.
The third thing that I think he would do is nothing.
I think the mission would be accomplished.
No nukes for Iran.
And then whatever the Israelis decide to do, I think that will be between the Israelis and the Iranians.
And we're out of it.
Well, I mean, he's not going to do nothing.
I mean, he has to be.
He's taken out their biggest facility.
That's not nothing.
Right.
So the President of the United States is going to be involved with whatever happens to Iran.
And I think that both you and I agree, even if the Mullahs survive, they are now powerless.
They've shown they can't defend themselves.
They've depleted their arsenal.
The nukes are going to go.
And the Persian people hate them.
You want to stay there?
Do you want to stay for five more minutes or you got to roll?
Sure.
All right, more with anything.
Let's go.
Anything.
All things simple man Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
So we're talking about the necessity to do this.
We're talking about the American people overwhelmingly instinctively know that this terror organization has got to go.
Let me ask you this question.
For those people out there that might be resistant, which are a very tiny minority, which is why I've kind of been ignoring the noise because the media wants to gin up this fake, phony, fraudulent, MAGA conflict award that I don't even believe is real.
I mean, there are people that have differing points of view, but I respect differing points of view.
You don't have to agree with me every time.
I believe that I support the Trump doctrine and its purity based on his past actions, but because I believe in it, not because it's Donald Trump.
But at the end of the day, what happened?
What would happen, Bill O'Reilly, if one rocket from a foreign country were fired into the United States of America?
What do you think the American people would demand?
Well, it'd be war.
One rocket.
And there's hundreds of thousands over the years that have been fired into Israel.
Why would anyone expect Israel to respond, to accept this as they have for so long and not finally end this once and for all and cut off the head of the snake?
You know, look, you're talking logic, then to the people who hate Israel and the anti-Semites, there's no logic involved.
Let me make a point that's been almost ignored by everybody about this Iranian USA-Israel situation, which is, you know, obviously ultra-important for people to understand.
None of this would be happening if Biden hadn't surrendered in Afghanistan.
None of it.
Okay, because what wouldn't have happened either if Obama didn't make that $1.7 billion debacle deal with Iran.
And it wouldn't have happened if Joe enforced the sanctions that were working and bankrupting Iran that Donald Trump had put in place.
And he turned a blind eye towards them and they got rich.
And that funded his proxy terror war and funded more of his build out of his nuclear program than nuclear program.
I wrote a column, it's on billoreilly.com with all the numbers, all the money that went in, Obama's money, Biden's money.
But it's beyond that.
So when Biden surrendered in Afghanistan, then the signal was sent to the bad people in the world.
Okay, we don't have now a real authoritative United States any longer.
We have a weak United States.
And you can see it.
You can see it in Ukraine, Putin, not only Ukraine, but in Georgia and other former Soviet republics.
He started almost immediately, okay, to go in and intrude and to inject Soviet Russian forces in there.
China, same thing.
South China Sea building up the, you know, on and on and on and on.
And Iran, the mullahs, basically saying, hey, Biden's not going to do anything.
We can enrich all we want.
We can do whatever we want to do here.
He's not going to do anything.
The scenario I just laid out to you is indisputable.
You can't say it didn't happen because it did.
When I was in Beijing three weeks ago and they were asking me about Taiwan, which is far and away their biggest issue, the Chinese communists, and I just remind your listeners that I spoke with the Politburo there for almost two hours.
And it was clear to me by their questions that they felt they had much more license to build up a very offensive capability under Joe Biden than in Trump's first term.
People are forgetting about that.
So when you see the Democratic Party, which is going to object to whatever Donald Trump does.
He goes in and bombs the mountain, you're going to hear Democrats scream.
You're just going to hear it.
You're going to hear the media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, they're all going to scream.
Oh, you should have waited.
You should have been more diplomatic.
You should have given more time.
And I'm not against giving it a little more time.
I wouldn't give it a lot.
But I'd give it, you know, maybe a few more days to see how the Mullahs are going to be destabilized by their own people.
Remember, the Iranian army could turn on the Mullahs.
That would be the key to it.
A lot of these top guys are dead.
The Israelis got them.
That sends a message to all of the remaining Iranian army.
Yeah, it does.
Why don't we make predictions?
We'll reconvene next week and see if either one of us are right or both of us are right.
My prediction is that by this time next week, the Iranian nuclear program will be completely dismantled.
All right.
You heard it on the Hannity Radio program.
That's a pretty bold prediction.
And I will take U.S. involvement.
And I believe that the Mullahs, if in fact they are stupid enough, and they've shown themselves to be pretty stupid at not taking Trump's deal.
If they are stupid to try to strike at Americans, they will not have any power in that country and they will never have the ability to make money.
And at that point, you can figure A squared, B squared, C squared.
Right.
I expect the Mullahs to do that.
I expect Trump to run out of patience.
And that is.
He's running out of patience.
He's had it.
They were given the ultimate ultimatum, he said earlier today.
Yeah.
And I mean, look, that's fair.
Yeah.
He all but begged them to do the deal, but they can't have a nuclear weapon.
He's been saying it since 2011.
The world's been saying it.
Now their defenses are down.
We're two-thirds of the way there.
We've got to finish the job.
I don't want a forever war.
I do believe that he was right on Soleimani.
I think he was right on Baghdadian associates.
I think he was right to take out the caliphate.
If he takes out Iran's final nuclear facility, their largest one and most dangerous one, I think it is consistent with the Trump doctrine and doesn't violate it in any way.
If the Iranians want to expand this, there will be hell to pay, but it won't be a forever war.
I can promise you that.
There won't be boots on the ground.
I've been telling people that future wars are not going to be fought on the battlefield.
They're going to be fought in air-conditioned offices, Bill.
That's why we need the next generation of weaponry.
Chinese know that as well.
Thanks for having me.
I appreciate it.
All right, Mr. O'Reilly.
All things, O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Appreciate it.
Busy, busy telephones.
Peggy in Pennsylvania.
Hey, Peggy, how are you?
Hi, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you for calling.
Glad you're there.
Yes, Sean.
The way I look at it, I'm not going to waste a lot of time here, but our Lord voted early, July 13th, 2024.
He saved our president, President Trump, who he knew was going to be president.
And that president was saved for a reason.
And that is for the reason is to finish this reprobate forever.
He's a reprobate.
The Ayatollah is a reprobate with a depraved heart, and there's no other way to look at it.
And the Lord, I believe, if you connect the dots, it's very simple to understand it, that Donald Trump was spared, and God voted early on on July 13th.
There's no doubt when you come within a millimeter of losing your life.
And I remember saying this to President Trump before the election.
I said, God didn't save your life for no reason.
And he looked at me.
I actually think that event changed him, as it would probably change anybody.
And in every good way imaginable, in my view.
It's very humbling to be on death's door.
It really is.
Anyway, good call, Peggy.
We appreciate you.
We'll stay in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Janet is next.
Janet, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hi, Sean.
I completely agree with that caller.
I was there that day and saw it happen, and she's absolutely positively right.
But what I was calling about is just on a much lighter note.
I want to, no more busting Linda's chops from you for saying coffee until you learn to say burn a launcher and not burn her.
Oh my gosh.
It is a burner launcher.
It's not a burner.
It's a burner.
Berna.
Burner, burner.
You sound exactly the same either way you say it.
No.
Right.
If you don't think it's funny, Linda, silver palette pasta suos.
Silver palette.
You say burner.
I'll say source.
Coffee, talk radio, New York.
That's how those words are said.
That's not how they're said.
It's said within thick New York accent.
I have pity on you that you have not been able to acclimate and use the words the way they should be said, including burner.
Burner is actually the one word you say like a newspaper.
Burner's the one word.
I get it right every time.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
It's pretty funny, actually.
Poor Katie, she gives deluge with calls about that.
It's so funny.
Janet, Janet, by the way, I know why you're defending her because she's a fellow Pennsylvanian.
He lives in Pennsylvania.
And what's interesting is that my fellow Pennsylvanians say I have a New York accent, and my New York friends say I have a Pennsylvania accent because certain words are.
You have a combination of the worst of both if you really want to know the truth.
It's completely fair and totally agree with you without question.
Do you see that, Janet?
She admits that I am 100% right.
On this one particular issue as a silent.
I am 100% right on every issue.
I bleed the fifth.
Pennsylvania, we say yuns and jag off.
You're being a jag off.
Or look at that, John.
A lot of Johns.
Oh, man, I'm getting some major shade thrown my way.
We say hoagie instead of hero.
I remember when I first moved to New York and I asked for a hoagie and they were like, what the hell is that?
Definitely a hoagie.
I know you have tasty cakes instead of yoga.
We have wawas.
We have tasty cakes.
By the way, there are wawas in Florida.
There's one.
I was actually at a Wawa not that long ago.
As a matter of fact, this weekend I was at a Wawa.
It's pretty weird.
I mean, I'm glad for them.
It's just weird.
All right.
Janet, appreciate you.
Thank you.
Let us go to the free state of Florida, my free state of Florida.
And Roberto is next.
Roberto, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hi.
Good afternoon, John.
Thank you for taking my call.
Where are you from?
Where are you from in Florida?
In Miami.
Well, come to our Fort Lauderdale show.
You know, tickets are going fast down there.
The Broward Center for Performing Arts.
It's a week from this coming Sunday, June 29th.
I got it.
No, I got it down on my calendar for sure.
I'm looking forward to that.
All right, cool.
Okay.
Just to follow up on the L.A. issues with the riots and two issues that I have.
One is that the liberal government that they have and the politicians they have, they're all concerned about all these rioters and demonstrators that are out there on their civil liberties, but they're not concerned about the free people that live in L.A. and California that are trying to get to work and they can't get to work and their businesses are closed.
And at the same time, they're trying to get to their families and maybe to a sick one.
The fire rescues can't get out because they're blocking the road.
And you're defending them instead of the citizens.
How long is that going to go on?
The people that they were arresting were murderers and child molesters and gang members and drug dealers.
And I listened to these idiots that are in charge in the state of Florida.
And Karen Bass comparing ICE raids to COVID lockdowns.
And stunning numbers show that Donald Trump's illegal immigrant crackdown has beaten the border crisis.
And literally now, you know, the United States is winning this conflict, but we still have known terrorists and murderers and rapists.
I don't know how you ever get all of them, but the sanctuary state madness continues.
The New Jersey police refuse to arrest an illegal alien escapee who tried to turn himself in.
And it's got to stop.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
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