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CBS News is now reporting over 12,000 protesters are feared dead in Iran.
I woke up this morning early to a video of all these bodies and body bags that got out of Iran and the slaughter that has taken place there.
And obviously they've tried to shut down communications and any ability of the outside world to get real information, but they're not being too successful in part because of satellites and in part because of Starlink.
And with phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, I mean, they're saying as many as 20,000 people have been killed.
And that number may be going up by the minute as the Islamo-fascist regime of the Ayatollah now, they have unleashed the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and they're slaughtering people left, right, and sideways.
Opposition, Iran International Television, said that they've confirmed this number and some are saying that the number is going higher.
President Trump, it looks like, is probably on the verge of acting.
He has threatened that he would do this and offer support to the Iranian people.
He has said, I have canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.
And he said he, and the Iranians, now the Iranians are saying that they're going to slaughter America on the one hand, but I know for a fact that the backdoor communications with the White House are very different.
They're begging for some type of negotiations with the White House.
You can't negotiate with Islamofascists that never keep their word anyway.
I mean, it's just, frankly, it's a waste of time on all sides to ever trust them.
But the president said he's canceled any possible talks with Iranian officials because of the murder and the crackdown.
And then he said, Iranian patriots, he put this on Truth Social this morning, keep protesting, take over your institutions, save the names of the killers and abusers.
They will pay a big price.
I have canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the senseless killing of protesters stops.
And then he ends with this.
Help is on its way.
Now, ask yourself, if Donald Trump is telling the protesters in Iran to keep protesting and help us on the way, what do you think that that means?
Now, I know there's going to be some there are people that just, I think they just steadfastly, almost, I don't know, reflexively, just, you know, refuse to understand what the Trump doctrine is.
The Trump doctrine is rooted in America first.
And then you start with a very simple question.
Is it in America's best interest that this Islamic fascist regime that came very close to getting nuclear weapons, that has been the number one state sponsor of terror, that has targeted Americans during the Iraq War, for example, and more recently on October 7th, Americans were a part of that.
And that has destabilized the entire region, that has threatened world domination, thankfully stopped by President Trump.
Is it in the world's best interest?
Is it in America's best interest that we have a shot at a different regime that would take over, one that is slaughtering innocent people?
And then a second question is: does America have any role obligation, if it's possible, within the realm of President Trump's doctrine, which is no forever wars, no boots on the ground?
And if you look at how the president has used his military might and the might of the U.S. military, it's very, very surgical and it's very strategic.
And none of his military actions have resulted in any forever wars, and none of them have resulted really in boots on the ground either.
So is it beyond comprehension that the president is going to surgically strike Iran in solidarity and support of the Iranian people to stop the humanitarian slaughter that's going on before our eyes?
Now, did the world wait too long in Nazi Germany to get involved?
Did America wait too long?
I mean, I'll let you make your own judgments on this.
Or are you one of these people that believes in isolationism?
Well, it's not in our backyard.
What do we care?
We'll turn a blind eye to a murder, mayhem, and the death of innocent people.
I believe, as our framers believed, our founders believed, and they spoke of often, that it is the natural inclination of the human soul to desire freedom and liberty, and it is the natural state endowed by our creator.
It infers all of that.
And I think that the president has found the perfect balance.
We could never go back and ever repeat what happened in Iraq, Baghdad, elsewhere within Iraq and Afghanistan.
And that is, you know, American soldiers, American treasure going door to door, stepping over IED after IED without up armored Humvees in this quagmire forever war that went on for 20 years in Afghanistan.
That can't ever happen again.
And one of the great blessings has been the advancement of military technology.
And I've been saying this now for a long time.
Future wars are likely not going to be fought on battlefields, and you see the beginnings of this with drone fighting, example, even with Ukraine and Russia.
And in the Middle East, you see ballistic missiles fired out of Iran and missile defense systems taking them out of the air.
Future wars are going to be fought in air-conditioned offices in some town or some city.
That is what the future is going to be.
And by the way, if you want to talk about politics and the hypocrisy of the left, all these people that were protesting on college campuses, all of the, you know, we stand with the Palestinian Free Palestine movement, Hollywood at the Golden Globes.
How come they ignore the slaughter of innocent people in Iran, which they have been ignoring, completely ignoring?
No protests on college campuses, none at all whatsoever.
But what the president is, if it's in America's interest, and I would argue it absolutely positively is, to not have an Islamo-fascist regime in power and take our chances with maybe a democracy or a democratic republic emerging, which existed, it was far from perfect.
Don't misunderstand me.
Before the Shah, I'm sorry, before the Ayatollah, they deposed the Shah, Ayatollah Khomeini came back into power in 1979 and took Americans hostage 444 days.
Americans held hostage.
The only reason they were released is Ronald Reagan was inaugurated and they were afraid of Ronald Reagan.
And just like they do fear President Donald J. Trump.
And when Donald J. Trump says help is on the way, I think it's a pretty good bet.
I don't know what polymarket has it at, but believe it or not, you can bet on anything these days and that there's probably likely.
But I woke up this morning to the videos, Linda, I'm sure you've seen them, of hundreds and hundreds of Iranians shot dead by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces and just, you know, just slaughtered.
Now, the president has taken some action already.
He announced a trade embargo late yesterday on Iran.
And as members of Congress now implored him to take immediate action to stop the killing of these anti-government protesters, effective immediately, any country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a tariff of 25% on any and all business done with the, being done with the United States of America.
And he put this on Truth Social.
This order is final and it is conclusive.
And I think that is just the beginning of what the president probably has planned.
And, you know, where is the Democratic Party that was so pro-Palestinian?
Now, there's a big difference here.
In the case of Israel, Israel has had tens, if not hundreds of thousands of rockets.
I've been to Israel.
I've been inside the terror tunnels.
I've been to border towns like Starot, a town when I had been there last had been hit with 10,000 rockets, one little town, a border town with Gaza in 10 years.
This is the town I described.
You know, kids play in underground playgrounds because you can see Gaza with the naked eye from this little town in Israel.
And it takes 12 seconds for a missile to be fired from Gaza into this town, and they were hit often.
And kids play in underground bunker playgrounds because they can't get to a bunker fast enough.
They can't even play outside.
But this video that I looked, tragic video, and by the way, Reza Pavlavi, who was on with us last night on TV, but you have these brave, unarmed souls that are just craving freedom, giving their lives by challenging this fanatical regime.
And they represent the best in what Iran can be.
And, you know, America has never been at war with the Iranian people.
It is this Islamo-fascist regime that has pledged to destroy Israel and destroy America.
You know, shoot to kill.
I mean, that's what this balance, this unbelievable barbarity on display.
I mean, to see, it should shock the soul and conscience of every American, you know, if they're watching this and seeing this with their own eyes.
You know, there's one thing that Reza Pahlavi said last night, and he said that the Iranian regime is using the military to massacre these protesters.
He said, and the people are still protesting.
And he said, members of the Iranian military are defecting or not showing up to work.
And he says Iranians know that Trump is no Obama.
They believe his words.
Let me play some of this interview from last night.
The latest interaction I've had with fellow compatriots had a few FaceTime discussions directly with the young brave people off the street telling me about the situation.
The level of massacre has been unbelievable, unfortunately.
The regime is with no pity using military machinery, AK-47s to shoot to death protesters.
Morgues are overfilled.
Despite all of that, these brave kids are still on the street.
A doctor reported to us that she had a young patient that came in with her face being shot by bullet-ridden.
And she said, The doctor, patch me up.
I want to go back to the streets.
I'm going to keep fighting until we are safe.
And I want our leader, Raza Pahlavi, to return home to save us all.
This is the level of commitment you see in Iran today.
There's something else that I think is not being covered or said.
We have tacit intelligence reports that a number of people, you know, they have started a process of connecting with us, those who want to defect, that despite the regime hard crackdown, many have refused to show up for work, feigning health reasons or whatever, because they don't want to crack down on people anymore.
More than 5,000 elements that belong to the military parameter forces refuse to go back to their posts so they don't have to be faced with the duty to crack down on people.
This is the beginning of the end of the regime that is hoping to buy some time.
They know they're on their way down.
The death, the decisive blow can be the game changer and the knockout pounds to this regime.
How meaningful have President Trump's words been to those that are rising up against this tyrannical, you know, Islamic fascist regime?
Well, there's a reason, Sean, that people are naming sub-streets after the president's name.
They know he's not a Barack Obama.
They know that he's not going to be a president that will throw them under the bus as they have been before.
And that's really the spirit on the streets right now.
And I believe President Trump knows exactly what he's facing, not buying into the regime's last-gasp effort to promise negotiation, because every time they have their back to the wall, they come back with that line, and nobody's fooled anymore.
And then he said we don't want American boots on the ground.
He said, quote, we are the boots on the ground.
The people on the streets are the boots on the ground.
Really, without President Trump's words, I think this thing would have stopped by now.
And the president is saying help is on the way.
I'm interpreting it one way.
But I'm sure you'll have the naysayers that have no real understanding of what America first means or what the Trump doctrine is based on ISIS caliphate, Soleimani, Baghdadi, mother of all bombs taken out Iran's nuclear sites.
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New York Times even reporting in Iran that, you know, shoot to kill accounts of this crackdown emerging.
Really sad story of this 26-year-old that is now facing execution by hanging as of tomorrow, detained last Thursday, sentenced to death.
His family has been told he will be executed, although he's been given no information about what it's going to take place or what even the charges are.
I mean, this is what a brutal regime is.
Iran is now trying to hunt down Starlink users and stop these protest videos from going global.
They've not been successful.
I mean, when we show you tonight on TV, I promise it will shock your conscience and your soul.
And as you know, and by the way, there may be some of you, I can't even believe that there are people that think this way that don't understand the Trump doctrine.
I mean, it's not complicated, and there are isolationists in our, even within the conservative movement, and that think, oh, no, this has nothing to do with America.
We should just let the slaughter continue.
Okay.
Now, the first question you have to ask yourself, is it in America's best interest?
Is this America first?
That we would have ultimately a chance at a democratic republic, a new government that is friendly towards the United States?
Is it in America's best interest?
Is it in the world's best interest?
You have to ask yourself these questions.
Then, America, look, we can't possibly get involved in every conflict around the world, but when you see mass slaughter of innocent people, do you want America to be a country that will stand for people that thrive to live in freedom and liberty?
Or do you think America should have no role at all whatsoever?
I mean, there are people that never liked Donald Trump's actions by taking out the ISIS Caliphate, convert or die.
Again, it's no forever wars, no boots on the ground.
You know, he did it with incredible surgical precision with the best military on the face of the earth.
The same thing with taking out Soleimani on that tarmac.
The same thing with Baghdadi, dropping the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan and culminating in wiping out the Iranians' nuclear ambitions with 14 bunker buster bombs.
And then there are still some people that say, oh, no, that's not America first.
Well, I happen to think it's in America's vital national long-term security interest to see this tyrannical Islamic fascist regime taken out.
And I do think if America can help, and the president's saying help is on the way, if you disagree with me, call me.
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And I don't think a lot of people, there are some people that interpret no forever wars and no boots on the ground as no military action at all.
And that is not, I think, what the Trump doctrine is, as evidenced by his actions.
But if you disagree, call me.
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Do the people of Minnesota want to live in a community in which thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers, addicts, rapists, violent released, escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions, insane asylums, and other deadly criminals, too dangerous to even mention.
All the patriots of ICE want to do is remove them from your neighborhood and send them back to the prisons and the mental institutions from where they came, most in foreign countries, illegally entering the U.S. through sleepy Joe Biden's horrible open borders policies.
The president puts on Truth Social.
And he goes on to say, every place we go, crime comes down in Chicago, despite a weak, incompetent governor, mayor fighting us the entire way the big improvement was made.
We see it in D.C., we see it in Memphis.
We see it in Louisiana.
Thousands of criminals removed.
Minnesota Democrats love the unrest that anarchists and professional agitators are causing because it gets them the spotlight.
It's off the $19 billion that was stolen is now actually up to $84 billion.
By the way, ICE in Minneapolis, ICE captured another round of illegal immigrant criminals in Minneapolis over the weekend.
Among them, over 1,000 people, child abusers, drug pushers, drug traffickers, all caught in this roundup, all because ICE is putting themselves on the line.
Now, Democrats stupidly, I brought this to your attention yesterday, and they're doubling down on it.
Now they might make the entire government shutdown about defunding ICE.
And we're demanding funding reductions or to completely defund them.
Well, that's pretty stupid, especially in light of what Joe Biden did, which was the single worst preventable national security disaster by allowing tens of millions, God knows how many, 10, 12, 14, 18 million.
God only knows how many unvetted illegals, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members in the country.
Liberals think Antifa isn't a real issue, but it is.
Constant distortions about Antifa.
The truth is, you know, is it stands for, and a lot of people don't know this, anti-fascist.
It refers to a decentralized underground network of radical leftists dedicated to destroying the far right.
Their activists are mostly anarchists, communists, socialists, and though they might defer And differ in their ideology.
They all subscribe to a specific militant tradition, holding the quote fascist, you know, by any means necessary.
They're very real.
They often collaborate.
They're not an overarching organization.
No, quote, hierarchy, leadership, no, you know, organization chart headquarters.
You know, they don't have rich donors.
They raise their money locally.
Now, Minnesota, by the way, in Illinois, is suing the Trump administration for federal invasion.
Pretty insane.
A city agency promoting an art of civil discourse class hosted by the socialist anti-Trump activists.
You really can't even make all this stuff up, but that's what they're doing.
You know, anti-ICE agitators, you know, there's a manual out there which includes instructions on how to launch a micro-antifada.
There's a big write-up on this in the New York Post today: a microantifada, you know, holy war.
The D Arrest Primer, and it has pictures with it.
It's a manual reposted on Instagram by Minnesota Ice Watch, part of a loose collective of agitators that teach members how to disrupt law enforcement officers from performing their duties, including ICE agents.
They outline four tactics to interfere with arresting ICE officers, such as, you know, the best kind of grip to use while yanking someone in custody out of their hands, or even suggestions on pushing and pulling an officer off an arrestee.
The instruction guide reads: well, you should have a low center of gravity and a wide base and push up with explosive power with your head up at all times if possible.
For breaking a grip, try striking the grip.
The manual advises while warning that making physical contact with law enforcement can get construed as an assault in court.
Tactic three, encourage readers to open unlocked doors of law enforcement vehicles containing suspects and let them out, a move that it acknowledges could be considered a crime.
Final tactic involves pressuring cops to simply release individuals that they've taken into custody, totally surrounding the officers, otherwise blocking them and or their vehicle and chanting, let them go until the law enforcement officers cave to the mounting pressure.
I mean, this is insane.
You know, there's this whole story in the New York Post today that, you know, soccer moms are now taking up a new dangerous hobby, becoming ICE saboteurs.
And Trump tells Minnesotans a day of reckoning and retribution is coming after, you know, ICE rates.
What they're trying to do is keep your community safe and secure.
And as a matter of Minnesota law, you know, if you go to Minnesota Statute 609.066, it does allow peace officers to use deadly force in situations where a vehicle poses an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm.
Whoops, see Daisy.
Not that they had a right to do it.
Trump DOJ has now moved to prosecute the Venezuelan gangbanger.
Oh, all right, we got a call on this.
By the way, we're also monitoring the U.S. Supreme Court today.
You know, do you know that there are 890 medals that female athletes would have won had they not had trans male competitors?
And this, you know, went to court today.
I didn't like the oral argument.
I didn't like the arguments of Amy Coney Barrett.
All right, let's go to Dave in Pennsylvania.
Apparently, he disagrees with me.
What's up, Dave?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
Good to talk to you.
Good to talk to you.
What's going on?
Yeah, so everything that you just rattled off about the Trump doctrine and his campaign and MAGA, I'm all about it, which is actually more ammo for the fact that he needs to slow his roll, not be spread so thin, concentrate on economics in the next midterm, leave Iran alone.
He's biting off more than he can chew.
Okay, so the president's doctrine is no forever wars, no boots on the ground.
And do you think the president made a mistake when he took out Iran's nuclear sites?
Or is that in America and the world's best interest?
No, absolutely.
That was a good thing.
Okay, so we have reports now of 20 plus thousand people slaughtered in Iran by this Islam fascist regime.
And if the president, again, using the Trump doctrine, no boots on the ground, no forever wars, uses a surgical strike to help save lives, you're against that.
You'd rather the people die.
Yes.
And I'm only saying that because look at Vietnam.
Wow.
Look, we should not be able to.
We're not talking about Vietnam.
We're not talking about boots on the ground.
We're not talking about he went in and took out their nuclear sites, and that war was over that day.
If you want to call it a war, he's not, not one case is he putting boots on the ground.
He's talking about, you know, giving some defense of innocent people being slaughtered.
You're against that.
You want the people to die.
No, I don't want them to die.
I just don't want to.
You don't think the United States should at least offer them some support?
The president's saying help is on the way.
You disagree with him.
I think we should stay out of it.
Absolutely.
I think it's only going to hurt.
And you know if they stay out of it, tens of thousands of people will die, and you're okay with that.
We did not cause that.
That's not our problem.
I didn't ask you that.
And do you think it's in the world and America's best interest if this regime falls and they have a chance at a new government that would be supportive of the United States?
I think the left is going to twist it, Sean.
I didn't ask about the left twisting it.
Do you think it's in America's interest to get rid of this Islamo-fascist regime?
You're a sure negotiator, Mr. Hannity.
No, I'm good at my job, but I mean, I'm putting you in a tough spot because what you're saying is you're going to allow the slaughter to continue and the Islamo-fascists to stay in power.
And I know these are hard decisions.
I do.
But I'm saying no boots on the ground, no forever war, but offering support and solidarity and a chance of freedom and a safer world in the end, I think it's worth it.
I think the president has the perfect policy, surgical strikes and out.
Anyway, real quick, Jim in Illinois, quick.
Hi, Sean.
Good show, as usual.
A former Marine officer stationed in Afghanistan and did a tour in Iraq.
Our democracy, our Republican constitutional form of democracy, doesn't work.
It just doesn't work.
I agree with the president.
We've got to knock these Iranians off.
But we can't go in and expect a change.
They're not going to adopt this.
They're not Americans.
And one other thing, Sean, you referred...
I think that people would love to get rid of this Islamofascist regime.
And in the past, they have had a taste of freedom.
Is it in our best interest to get rid of the Islamo-fascist in charge?
Is it in our American first best interest?
I think we need to look after our own interests.
I think the world would be better served with the Iranian regime removed.
But one other point I'd like to make, Sean.
I'm just out of time, unfortunately, but Semper Phi, God bless you for serving your country, my friend.