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Jan. 20, 2026 - Sean Hannity Show
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Iranian Issue Is a Human Right's Issue!
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Well, things have been ratcheting up in the last 48 hours with Iran and the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Trump.
Iran threatening to continue their mass executions of protesters during its brutal crackdown nationwide.
Anywhere between 20 and 30,000 is the conventional estimate of people that have been slaughtered.
But if they begin the executions, that will be in direct defiance of everything that President Trump said he's not going to tolerate and that help is on its way.
And, you know, just to give you some updates here, among, you know, many women have been slain, moms, pregnant women among the regime's victims, as reported by the New York Post today.
We have, you know, nothing but fear and loathing, but the people still stick to the streets.
I go back to the videos that I've been telling you that, you know, have been coming out of there, and it is as gruesome a sight as you'd ever see.
I mean, one headshot after another and a harsh response.
Hundreds have been taken hostage.
One interesting moment came when the crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, who we've had on this program, multiple Iranian state TV channels were hacked on Sunday amid a near total internet shutdown of footage of the exiled crown prince and images of anti-government protesters that have rocked Tehran in recent weeks to actually hack the TV stations, which is pretty amazing.
The U.S. Navy's Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier is now headed towards Iran as these tensions now continue to escalate.
And the Iran now accused of killing anywhere between 20 and 30,000 people as of now.
Iranian regime elites now allegedly, according to Scott Besson and others, the Treasury Department, they are moving millions and millions of dollars out of the country, which would be probably in the lead up to escaping themselves.
All reports are that they'd head to Russia.
Joining us is Goldie Ghumari, a human rights activist born in Iran when she was just a year old when her family fled for Canada in 1986, seven years after another revolution deposed the Shah of Iran.
She herself is a supporter of Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the former Shah.
But he has said to me he doesn't care if it's him or somebody else, but he just wants this theocracy, this tyrannical Nazi regime to be overthrown and these people to get out of office that the people, formerly, obviously of Persia be able to live in freedom.
And Goldie joins us now.
You made the same point I noticed on X about Barack Obama after the Iranian nuclear deal, where he dumped cargo planes of cash and other currencies to try to placate the mullahs in Iran.
And all they did was build out their nuclear facilities and foment terror in the entire region.
Oh my gosh, you saw my post on X, Sean?
That's an honor.
I did.
It says, Barack Obama, after the Iran nuclear deal, August 2015, Iran will gain access to $56 billion.
And you also put up on X. In case you're not watching the Iran Revolution Live, here is me and my reaction to Iranian freedom fighters hacking the Islamic regime state TV.
So you were aware of the hacking of state TV, which I thought was very fascinating.
Yes, yes.
Well, first of all, thank you for having me on your show.
It's an honor to be here.
I'm a huge, huge fan of you.
And thank you for following me along on X.
And yeah, so I have been broadcasting and covering the Iran revolution since it started about three weeks ago daily.
And, you know, it's just, it's incredibly fascinating to see what's going on.
And I don't use the word fascinating lightly because, of course, there is a mass slaughter and a mass genocide that is going on.
The number of slaughtered Iranians, it's actually much more than 30,000, I think.
I think.
30,000, I would say, is a conservative estimate at this point.
What we are seeing right now is probably, or not probably, it is the largest slaughter of Iranians by the Islamic dictatorship since they occupied Iran in 1979.
But the message that Iranians in occupied Iran have been giving out, you know, when they can, thanks to, of course, Elon Musk and Starlink, the message they've been telling us, those of us who are outside of the country, is to, you know, don't lose hope.
Don't let the, you know, don't let the Islamic Republic make people think that we have given up.
We're still on the streets.
We're still demonstrating.
This is the final battle.
And what they're chanting, Sean, is, which translates to, this is the final battle.
Hahlavi will return.
And so for us Iranians, it's now or never.
It's do or die.
And all I can say is thank God that we have someone like President Trump and the U.S. administration on our side.
He really is the only hope.
Now, I don't think it's an accident that Senator Lindsey Graham flew to Israel to meet with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
I would imagine the Israelis know that if there's any military action, they probably will be the primary target.
And, you know, they have to assume that the Iranians at that point on their way out with billions in dollars and no doubt in cash and other currency to Moscow and into the arms of Vladimir Putin, they have to anticipate that those people would be capable of going scorched earth on Israel, and they've got to be prepared for a worst case scenario.
So I don't think it's an accident that Senator Lindsey Graham was in Israel all weekend and meeting with the Mossad head and meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and apparently now is off to Davos to meet with President Trump and report back to him everything that he learned while meeting with the Israelis.
Does that sound like a fair assessment to you?
I absolutely 100% agree.
There's a reason that Senator Lindsey Graham is there.
And you're absolutely correct with the scorched earth analysis.
I mean, just look at what the brutal mullahs are doing to Iranian people themselves.
So imagine if the mullahs are capable of being that savage and that evil to unarmed Iranian citizens, of course you're going to go scorched earth on everyone else as well because they don't even have empathy for Iranians.
I mean, that's the sad reality and people are dying.
You know, I've said this often on the program is that people don't win revolutions with slingshots.
And when you have a regime that has been this brutal with all their human rights violations and treat women like fifth-class citizens and beat them and torture them if they don't even cover their head properly and throw gay and lesbian people off of buildings.
And it is a brutal theocracy.
And these people take to the streets anyway, knowing that the odds are high that they're risking their life doing so.
Obviously, they've just had it.
And now it's a matter of, you know, does the world take notice and pay attention?
The only one that seems willing to do that is President Trump.
Absolutely.
And God bless President Trump for that because he's seeing us for who we are.
And he understands, he recognizes.
And it's very, very interesting.
I mean, President Trump is a very, very smart man, very intelligent person.
And just the way that he's been maneuvering this entire situation.
I mean, President Trump is playing 4D chess, while all these Islamic dictators or whoever, they're basically playing checkers.
So not even in the same league here.
And, you know, President Trump is a winner.
He wants to make sure that when the strike happens, it's going to be successful.
And so, you know, I know that there are a lot of Iranians who are impatient or whatever the case might be.
But I personally have a lot of faith in President Trump.
And it just seems like the stars are aligning.
And even His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince, Jeza Palavi, he met with Senator Lindsey Graham, I believe it was last week, and they put out a joint video message.
And they both said make Iran great again.
Well, they even had Make Iran Great Again hats, which, by the way, I actually have one of them signed by President Trump.
Oh, wow.
Oh, my gosh.
That's fantastic.
I didn't know that.
Well, maybe I'll give it to you and you can auction it off and send the money to the people that are in need there.
How's that?
It's real.
It's the real deal.
Wow.
Wow.
That would be an honor.
But you keep that one for now.
And then we'll get a second one later, maybe.
But that's very, very generous of you.
But oh my gosh, that would be great.
But maybe a second one.
You keep that because I just love the fact that you have a mega hat.
Maybe what you could do instead, Sean, is take a photo and put it on your social media with your mega hat.
That would be a huge, huge mood boost for Iranians.
And that's the other thing I just wanted to say.
We Iranians around the world, we're going through a very, very dark, dark phase right now with the massacre and everything that's happening.
But one of the things that has really made us given us hope and encouragement is the love and support from people all around the world, especially those who are tuning into, who have been tuning into Iran Revolution Live pretty much every day, and especially all the Americans.
So I just wanted to also give a big shout out to all the Americans who have tuned in, who have sent their love, all the Americans who are singing our Iranian revolutionary songs with us, like the Peach and others.
I mean, just you guys are keeping our morale up high as well.
And I just cannot wait until Iran is free and that Iran and America can go back to being the natural allies that we were prior to 1979 when this Islamic dictatorship occupied our country.
Quick break, right back more with Goldie Gumari, human rights activist.
She's following the events and the protesters in Iran very, very closely.
All right, we continue now.
Goldie Ghumari is a human rights activist.
She's following the events on the ground in contact with people out protesting in Iran as they now fight for their freedom and cling to the hope that help is on the way from President Trump.
You know, how if you look at history, because the Ayatollah Khomeini was in France in exile, why France ever took them, I don't took him, I don't know.
And there's a whole issue of the Islamization of Europe and no-go zones in certain European countries and Sharia courts in a place like Great Britain is unfathomable to me.
If you're going to allow immigration policy, I think it's a prerequisite, should be a prerequisite that you have assimilation, not separation.
But putting all of that aside, when you look at the rest of the world and the lack of support, I mean, how did this revolution even happen?
How did this guy make it out of exile back into Iran, into power, and then take such control over all of society?
I mean, the Persian people have such a rich history of innovation, creation, and it's just sad to see the oppression they've lived under.
So basically, what happened is that a long story short, it was the communists and the Islamists who are working together to overthrow the Shah of Iran.
They put out a lot of fake news about him.
Oh, the Shah was a dictator, this and that, which all of it completely false.
However, because this was happening in the 1970s and the USSR was still around, so all of these Islamists were actually funded and trained by KGB assets.
And, you know, even like Yasser Arafat and the PLO, which is now, you know, or sorry, not the PLO, PLF, I don't know, whatever PL terrorist group they are, they were also funded and trained by the Soviets as well.
So what happened is back in the 1970s, there was this, you know, love affair with communism at the time.
And so these communists and Islamists would put out lies.
And then you also have mainstream media like BBC and others, who even to this day are very, very anti-West, very, very pro-jihad.
They were spreading, you know, sharing that information as well.
And then unfortunately, what happened is Jimmy Carter, and, you know, I just said, I know he's an American president, but Jimmy Carter is one of the most hated people by Iranians because Jimmy Carter, we call him Jimmy Carter the traitor,
instead of backing his ally the way Richard Nixon would have done, and we love Richard Dixon, by the way, instead of backing the Shah, Jimmy Carter decided to back an Ayatollah who runs around yelling death to America and death to Israel and all of that.
So, I mean, this was the, if Jimmy Carter had backed the Shah, this would have never happened.
But it was Jimmy Carter, his involvement that led to this.
And so I just want to say it's incredibly poetic that after 47 years of oppression, because of a mistake made by the Democrats, the 47th president of the United States is going to help us rectify that mistake and he's going to help us make it great again.
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This president certainly has reasserted America's military might and put fear in the hearts of all these dictators around the world as he should, because I believe it is the natural condition of mankind to want liberty and want freedom.
Listen, Goldie, honestly, keep up the good work.
We will have you back.
I'm going to send out a picture just on your behalf.
I'll take a picture of the signed hat and put it up on X when I can.
Appreciate your time.
Thanks for being with us.
Thank you so much for having me on.
We'll be honored to come back anytime.
God bless America.
God bless America and keep these people in Iran safe.
They don't deserve to die just for fighting for freedom.
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In spite of everything that happens and has happened and all of the madness that has been unfolding, the Democrats will not stop.
They will not stand down.
Their rhetoric keeps getting ratcheted up.
Here's Jasmine Crockett, you know, ICE acting as modern day slave patrols.
Modern Day Slave Patrols 00:13:10
Listen.
So I'm going to be clear about one thing.
I know my good black history.
And so when I look and I say, and I will say it loud and proud because the DH secretary had a few choice words for me, but this looks like modern day slave patrols.
And they have been sanctioned by this Supreme Court.
Whoever thought we would live in a country that progress looks like having a Supreme Court that says, yes, it is okay to look at somebody or to listen to their accent and give permission to grab them.
Not to be outdone, Jasmine Crockett, another lunatic in the U.S. Congress.
Congresswoman Omar refers to the GD states, meaning, oh, that sounds a lot like Reverend Wright making remarks about ICE.
This is what she said in a field hearing, St. Paul, Minneapolis on Friday.
It is appalling for our Republican colleagues to be okay, for there to be cell detentions in ICE for American citizens.
It is appalling for them to be okay, for there to be checkpoints in American cities where people are asked for their papers.
Those of us who escaped places like that, the one place where we thought we would never experience this is the U.S. states.
Congresswoman Jayapol, not to be outdone.
We should not be giving a dime more to ICE or CBP without accountability.
Now the whole defund ICE effort begins.
Now, meanwhile, you know, ICE agents are trying, and we've been scrolling, murderers, rapists, child molesters, you name it.
They're getting all of them, but here's what she said.
Well, first of all, there's a DHS appropriations funding bill that is coming up in Congress.
And I think that we should not be giving a dime more to ICE or CBP unless we have significant guardrails and accountability.
Things like you have to have a judicial warrant for an arrest.
You have to make sure that people have legitimate bond hearings and due process.
These ICE and CBP agents should not be masked.
There's a whole set of things that my subcommittee has drawn up and passed on to leadership and those who are negotiating the appropriations bill, because I think that Americans are quite horrified by what they're seeing.
Now, even though he has absolutely no means to do this, now if Democrats want to shut down the government over the issue of funding ICE, I'm all for it.
Because let them have that fight with the American people.
Most Americans, when they learn what ICE is doing and the types of criminals that they are arresting and they're putting their lives on the line every day, they're pretty happy about it.
Here's what Chris Van Holland said.
Saying is unless there are significant reforms to rein in this lawless ICE operation.
And there was a federal judge that just this week said that ICE agents were violating people's constitutional rights, right?
They were preventing them from engaging in protected peaceful protest.
So my view is there has to be dramatic change.
I don't foresee this administration doing that at this moment.
So I'm saying I won't provide any funding.
And just to show you the depth of depravity of the entire party, here's former, well, I guess Barack Obama's wingman, former AG Eric Holder, accusing ICE of being Gestapo.
Listen.
We are witnessing the weaponization of the Department of Justice by the president and his lackeys to silence his critics and to intimidate voters.
We're observing Gestapo tactics by federal immigration law enforcement in Minnesota, as well as around the country.
You all remember the name Renee Good.
And you say her name.
You say her name.
We are experiencing unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering, attempts to design to disproportionately disenfranchise black and brown voters as the president desperately clings to power like an insecure dictator.
There is a concerted effort to re-segregate America.
Okay, the administration's trying to resegregate America.
Nope.
And then you have Eric Swalwell, Mr. Fang Fang, threatening to strip ICE agents of their driver's licenses and take away their immunity.
Sorry, can't do it.
Not in his power.
Governor, no governor.
Is it governor wannabe?
Listen.
My message as governor to ICE agents is this.
If you harm a single Californian, hire the best lawyer you can afford because I will bring you to justice.
I will use every power in the state to bring you to justice.
I will take your driver's license away if you operate in our state with a mask and unidentified.
They're going to lose their immunity.
They're not going to be able to drive.
I will take your driver's license.
Good luck walking to work.
Also, I will direct law enforcement to use every power to prosecute them for battery, false imprisonment, and murder.
Now, I play all of this for you so that you understand that these people collectively will not stand down.
They don't care.
And they're putting the lives of innocent people in jeopardy by doing this.
All right, Donna, Marilyn, next, Sean Hennedy Show.
Hey, Donna, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hello, Sean.
It's been a minute, and I'm sorry about that.
I've tried you, but we haven't connected yet.
I want to make a point here.
For years, you've stated that the left and the radical Islamists were chanting death to America.
The Ayatollah even admitted with regard to Butler that we won't miss again.
And I thought about all of this.
I've been tracking Goldie Gamari and her associate Armin and also Maya Tusi on this because they've been fighting this fight, Sean, literally for, I'd say, close to 22 days.
They are so brave.
They are fearless.
You know, nothing's going to stop what's coming.
What's going on overseas are literally such crimes against humanity.
And I just want to say on their behalf, God bless Iran, Javid Shah.
America is wonderful.
And I'm so glad you and Mark Levin are recognizing this because a lot of the media has tuned it out.
So I'm so grateful that we have good people in our country that are doing the right thing for the right reasons.
So I just want to.
Listen, we've raised every question.
We've allowed people with different points of view on the program.
And, you know, you're looking at an opportunity for change for the number one state sponsor of terror.
There were people that were dead set against taking out Iran's nuclear sites.
And I think those people are extremely short-sighted.
There are people that, for whatever reason, purposely distort what the Trump doctrine is.
I just don't have time for stupid.
And if you don't understand the need to take out their nuclear sites, if you're willing to stand by and watch tens of thousands of students, young people being slaughtered when we can do something about it.
No, we can't be the world's policemen.
Yes, the Trump doctrine is correct.
No boots on the ground.
No forever wars.
I agree with all of that.
Ultimately, it's going to be up to the Iranian people.
But I do like a strong America that can use surgical strikes to bring about change and make the world a safer place.
And I think that's in America's best interest, America's first interest.
And I'm just not going to get into debates with ignorant people that would sit back and allow a slaughter to occur and don't understand that a nuclear-armed Iran is an existential threat to this country.
I just don't have time for stupid, to be very blunt.
Donna, we love you.
Appreciate the call.
Back to our busy phones, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Don, Lake Ron Concomo, welcome aboard, sir.
How are you?
Hey, Sean, thanks for taking my call on this Martin Luther King Day.
And I haven't talked to you since your last program in 2025.
So happy New Year to you, Correct.
Awesome.
Happy New Year to you.
And by the way, yeah, Martin Luther King.
You judge people by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
And I'll say this about Dr. Martin Luther King.
I got to know a lot of those civil rights pioneers when I lived in Atlanta.
And I'll never forget the first day I was on radio in Atlanta.
The mayor at the time, Maynard Jackson, called me on air, welcomed me to his city, and he meant it.
And we had a good working relationship together.
And I got to know guys like Joe Lowry, the SCLC.
I got to know Jose Williams.
I got to know Andy Young.
I got to, you know, sometimes agree, sometimes not agree.
I went to a big town hall meeting and it was, you know, big, you know, they didn't like that a conservative was there.
And I actually that night joined the NAACP, but got a lifetime membership.
I threw my money, I threw money on the table.
I said, I'm going to join right now, but just do me one favor.
The next time you have an African-American that like, and it was at the time Clarence Thomas had been debated, I said, you know, just because you may not agree with somebody's politics, it's not a bad thing.
And it's okay if we disagree on some issues.
If we live in a society now where things have advanced to the point where, you know, you have a third good marshal, you have a Clarence Thomas, you have people, whether you agree or disagree with them, that are advancing to the highest levels of government.
And I kind of quieted the room when I did that, to be honest.
I wish he was around today.
I'd love to know what he thinks about what's going on.
My favorite was Jose Williams.
He was great.
Hey, listen, Sean, hats off to you for getting Sri Sanak on your show on Friday night on Hannity.
He's the character who wants to abolish ICE.
But all he does is smirk while demanding impeachment to Donald Trump and his administration.
He was a character, and I'm glad you exposed him for what he was.
Well, that kind of went viral that beatdown.
And, you know, we played a little bit earlier in the program.
Maybe, Linda, you think we should play all of it in the final half hour?
I mean, it is illuminating.
Oh, it is.
Illuminating.
It is.
You know, when Linda gives me an A, I mean, isn't that what you said?
An A plus plus.
That is what I, I mean, I don't know how many more pluses I'm allowed to add before it starts to get weird, but yeah, absolutely.
Keep going.
I think we should play it.
All right.
We'll play it in your honor and Donald A. Gronkama's honor.
How's that?
Sean, I have one more question for you.
Me and millions of Americans across the country would love to know when these anti-ICE demonstrators are arrested for interfering or worse, assaulting our federal agents, what's the penalty they face?
Are they booked and released the same day like in New York City?
Or what's the monetary punishment?
Is it severe enough to offset what they're being?
If you go after a federal officer, remember, the jurisdiction under the supremacy clause for enforcing federal law lies with the federal government.
That's why, and they cannot prosecute any federal agent if they are, you know, in the line of duty doing their work.
That's why this agent is not going to be prosecuted in Minnesota.
It's not going to happen.
And so all these people with all these idle threats that they're going to take their driver's licenses, not let them in, they have no authority to do so.
And if they try to stop it, good luck with that.
They're going to lose.
They're going to lose in the courts and they're going to lose against Donald Trump.
Really that simple.
All right, Don.
Appreciate it, man.
Thank you.
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