In the explosive final hour of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean Hannity delivers a stark warning: President Trump’s 10-day ultimatum to Iran is real—and consequences are imminent. Hannity breaks down the President’s message that Tehran must make a deal or face “very different” outcomes, arguing that overwhelming force—not endless war—defines the Trump Doctrine. With potential U.S.–Israeli coordination on the table, Hannity says the stakes are existential, not just regional. The hour also spotlights the inaugural “Board of Peace” meeting led by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, outlining a bold international stabilization plan for Gaza. Billions in pledged relief funds, multinational participation, and a clear condition—Hamas must disarm—frame what Hannity calls a historic diplomatic pivot. If Hamas refuses, Israel will act. Hannity emphasizes that Iran’s regime, not its people, stands in the way of peace, describing a moment that could reshape the Middle East permanently. From strategic military positioning to diplomatic coalition-building, this hour captures what Hannity calls a defining crossroads for American leadership. This is high-stakes geopolitics, rapid-fire developments, and a President who, according to Hannity, means exactly what he says.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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If you want to be a part of the program, the president made a statement about Iran.
Either they make a deal or bad things will happen, and he gave a timeframe within the next 10 days.
If I was one of these mullahs and these idiots in Iran, I'd be getting on that plane full of cash and gold and other currency and making that trip to Moscow while they can.
But they probably won't.
Listen.
And now is the time for Iran to join us on a path that will complete what we're doing.
And if they join us, that'll be great.
If they don't join us, that'll be great too.
But it'll be a very different path.
They cannot continue to threaten the stability of the entire region, and they must make a deal.
Or if that doesn't happen, I maybe can understand if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
But bad things will happen if it doesn't.
Now, we have some developments about this.
Top national security officials tell the president that the U.S. military will be ready to strike Iran within days as soon as Saturday.
I would say either over the weekend, early next week, you can expect that there is Donald Trump means what he says.
What part of that they don't know after he wiped out their nuclear sites, I don't really know.
After he took out Soleimani, I don't know.
And Baghdadi and associates and beat the ISIS Caliphate.
I'm not sure what they're missing here.
The people of Iran have been begging President Trump to come as they have been out risking their lives.
The Iranians now continue their saber rattling left, right, and sideways, firing ballistic missiles into the straits of Hormuz and elsewhere.
250,000 protesters turned out in Munich to urge regime change in Iran.
The president mentioned that for the first time last week, and that surprised a lot of people.
Not that it will mean a thing.
The Taliban says they're ready to cooperate with Iran if Washington launches a potential attack.
A lot of reports, sources noting it would likely be a U.S.-Israeli campaign, which makes it more lethal.
We know Benjamin Netanyahu was at the White House last week.
I don't think that's an accident.
This will be the, if the president goes in this time, in my mind, this is going to be the final time.
And this is going to be it for this regime.
And then it's going to be up to the people of Iran, in keeping with the Trump doctrine.
It's not going to be a forever war.
It will be strategic and it will be impactful.
And that's all I can say.
Anyway, foreign policy analyst E.J. Kimball is here to give us his take on what he sees happening in the Middle East.
We do have some good news, by the way, on that front in terms of, you know, the president now is giving a final ultimatum as it relates to the Board of Peace as Gaza.
It's still hinging on Hamas's willingness to disarm.
But if they decide to keep arming themselves, the Israelis will take care of that in pretty short order also.
Anyway, Mr. Kimball, welcome back to the program.
Well, thank you.
It's good to be on with you.
All right, let's get your take.
When the president says 10 days, do you doubt it?
Because I don't.
I do not doubt the president when he says 10 days, but I would also say I wouldn't doubt it if it's in less than 10 days.
Look, you know, the president was negotiating with the Iranians before the 12-day war that happened last year.
And if, and I think they may already be at that point, realizing that these negotiations, it doesn't matter if they're 10 more days or 10 more years, they're never going to get to the point where it needs to get to, the president's not going to just let that clock play out.
He's going to act.
You don't move all of this aircraft into the region, which you move it into the region means that you're moving it out of other places strategically where it was for a reason.
So if it's going to move there, it's going to be there and it's going to be used or it's going to be moved out in very short order.
So I think the president means exactly what he says, and I agree with you that the Ayatollahs and the IRGC should be fleeing the country if they want to survive.
Well, I don't really know.
The president keeps saying if there's a deal.
I know what the deal is.
I know that the Iranians have been trying to negotiate an ability to enrich uranium at non-weapons grade levels, but they've never ever conceded anywhere, anyplace, anytime inspections by U.S. inspectors.
And I don't think they're going to do so now, nor do I think you could ever trust a single word that they say, period.
So, well, the only deal that I think they really should be negotiating at this point, knowing you can't trust them and knowing their history of being the number one state sponsor of terror and their pledge to destroy the West and destroy Israel and wipe it off the map and how they destabilize the area since 1979 with the uranium revolution.
I think the only option right now is: do you want to leave today, tomorrow, or over the weekend?
I mean, that pretty much is the only thing worth negotiating in my mind, knowing who they are.
Well, that's what this is.
It's not a negotiation of two equals.
This is a surrender document that the Trump administration is giving the Iranians the choice.
They can surrender.
They can stop this war.
I mean, look, President Trump is alluding to ending the ninth war.
Well, that ninth war is between Iran and the United States that was declared by the Iranian regime when it came in in 1979.
This is a war that's been fought against the United States.
And last summer, we started engaging in that war kinetically.
But this is something that needs to end.
And hopefully, if the Iranians knew what was best for them, the leadership, they would do it the peaceful way.
But if not, then President Trump's going to do it the hard way.
And the leadership will suffer.
Hopefully, they're able to limit collateral damage because the people of Iran are pro-American.
They're pro-Western.
But the leadership is not.
And those people have been yearning for freedom.
And this is their opportunity for it.
You know, we've had issues in the United States with Iranian agents trying to assassinate dissidents here, but we know that they've tried to assassinate President Trump.
They've committed attacks against our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is an enemy that is an existential threat to the United States.
They want to destroy our country.
We are the great Satan.
That's not just a slogan.
That's their policy.
Their policy is to go to war against the United States.
Israel's secondary for them.
I mean, are they just delusional as they fire their ballistic missiles into the Straits of Hormuz and trying to saber rattle and putting out videos and talking about the death of Donald Trump and it'll be in his coffin within two months?
I mean, are they delusional or do they actually believe it?
Well, there are some who firmly believe that Allah has commanded them to wage this war and that they will ultimately be victorious.
That's what some of them actually believe.
Others, they're just trying, they're trying to project some strength, but any right-minded person understands, especially after what we saw in that 12-day war last summer, if there was the idea that Iran could actually hold up against a military force, that was destroyed by Israel just taking over that, you know, the airspace of that country with no casualties, 12 days.
There was no threats to the United States when we came in and dropped the B-2s.
Now we have the issue of how do we prevent them from being able to counterattack, which is why I think what the president has done is brilliant, moving everything in, because you don't just take out their nuclear program.
You've got to take out those ballistic missiles, the launchers.
You have to go after their allies in the region, whatever's left of Hezbollah.
Go after the militants in Iraq.
If the Taliban are saying they're going to ally with Iran if we attack, then you have to go after the Taliban too, because you don't want them to have the ability to respond.
You don't want them targeting U.S. troops, U.S. bases in the region, our allies in the region.
So when we're looking at this right now, it appears that the United States, likely with Israel, maybe with the UK, obviously some of the regional partners providing some logistics support.
We are looking at a concerted effort that will be wave after wave over days, maybe weeks, in part to prevent Iran from even having the ability to respond externally, to try to take out the Strait of Hormuz to attack our ships.
You got to neutralize that right up front so that they can't even respond.
Well, I think it's sooner than later.
I think it's a matter of when, not if.
And I appreciate your time.
Thank you for joining us.
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E.J. Kimball, appreciate it.
Let's get to our busy phones.
Eduardo in my free state of Florida.
Eduardo, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Good afternoon, Sean.
Yeah, I definitely support this upcoming military action because, you know, we can't forget the Marine barracks and those consulates they hit in Argentina, their presence in Venezuela.
It's just going to be so much better security in the Middle East, just like Venezuela was about, some of it was about not just drugs, but immigration.
So that's why we need to be bold and taking action.
I think it's done.
At this point, I think they have sealed their own fate.
I just say Godspeed to our troops.
Godspeed to the brave men and women that are always willing to put themselves in harm's way.
The world is going to be better and safer, and it's not going to be a forever war.
It's going to be overwhelming military might and force.
And then it's going to be up to the people of Iran.
If they want a chance at freedom, they will have it, I believe, within the next few weeks.
Anyway, Eduardo, appreciate it.
Ty next in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Ty, what's going on?
God bless Texas, Sean.
First time, long time.
Thank you for taking my call.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
I'm 43, 22 years ago.
I was working a job really slow by myself, no foot traffic, turned on the radio and heard Sean Hannity.
And ever since then, man, I've been a conservative talker radio head and really appreciate it.
So you kept me coming.
Well, thank you.
I'm very honored.
I really am.
Have I changed much over the years?
No, no.
You still got a great head of hair, brother.
You got somebody who goes to me the other day.
Why don't you put a little more pepper in your hair?
And I'm like, pepper?
What does pepper mean?
And I'm like, you know, you go to a colorist.
I'm like, what's a colorist?
I don't know what a colorist is.
No, I say, I take the same advice I give to the ladies.
Age gracefully, not too much work, and you'll be fine.
No, no, I think there's a different standard.
Now, this is where Linda's going to lose her mind.
Because a lot of women like to, you know, put highlights in their hair and they get mannies and petties and massages and all this stuff.
I don't like strangers touching me.
Does that sound weird?
No, yeah, the mannies and the petties and the highlights is just the start of it.
What I recommend is away from you.
If you're a guy and you get a man in a petty, you lose your man card.
You just do.
No, I've never, never experienced it.
Surrender it.
Surrender it at the front door when you walk in and you never get it back.
No, I wouldn't.
Yeah, same thing for a massage.
My fiancé tried to get me to do it.
I said, there's no way I'm letting somebody rub all over my body.
That's insane.
I would walk out much more tense than I walked in.
But so when it comes to it, Ron, got a little anecdotal humor to bring you.
But to start it off, I do think President Trump doesn't kick the can down the road on this.
I hope he goes into it and gets it done because they're not going to negotiate in good faith.
And, you know, I think if he don't do it, there probably won't be anybody that does.
But if diplomacy and military action doesn't work, I think I may have a suggestion or at least an idea.
Well, military action is going to work one way or the other.
Yeah, I think so.
Because, I mean, how could it get any worse, right?
I mean, so.
I just would like to put this problem behind us.
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They have been the number one state sponsor of terror.
They have killed Americans.
They have killed everybody.
Listen, it wasn't just Israel that was happy that the Israelis, you know, devastated their ballistic missile systems, their air defense systems, and we took out their nuclear sites.
It was the entire region.
They've been wanting to fight back against Iranian hegemony for a long time, and they all feared a nuclear-armed Iran.
So let's cut the BS and let's realize that these lunatics that these religious Islamo fascists that believe that they're on a mission from Allah and they're going to get 72 virgins if they kill innocent infidels, innocent men, women, and children.
This regime has terrorized their own people, and the world will be better off when they're gone.
Just a fact.
Just saying, just the simple truth of life.
I couldn't agree more.
And when it comes to the 72 virgin thing, that was kind of my anecdotal humor observation that I have really, and from an honest standpoint, this has been something that I have chuckled to myself in my head for so many years, Sean.
Because if this is, if 72 virgin women are what these men are willing to put it all on the line for, right?
I'm not sure that they have ever really been introduced or had any experience with women, period.
Because to be honest with you, that kind of sounds like that sounds like a deterrent more than an actual reward at the end of the day.
Let me translate this for the audience.
This is 72.
Oh, boy.
Here we go.
You're going there, aren't you?
All right.
You know what?
There's enough pervert news out there.
I don't want to get into this stuff today with the arrest of Prince Andrew.
By the way, long time in coming.
And just like Hillary Clinton this week says, oh, Bill Clinton, we had nothing to do with Epstein.
His only pictures of Bill Clinton with one young woman after another in a hot tub, in a swimming pool, and whatever.
I mean, what frustrates me is the Biden people had this four years and they sat on it.
Notice all the Democrats, and you have Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries begging Epstein for money.
Oh, I guess it's backfiring on Democrats all of a sudden.
Now they're not as interested.
Quick break right back.
We'll continue.
It is amazing what the president has been able to accomplish.
And I don't think anyone would have anticipated it.
It was not the biggest part of his platform to bring peace around the world, but he's doing it.
Armenia, Azerbaijan, India, Pakistan.
I mean, eight separate conflicts.
He's been spending a lot of political capital to help end war in Europe and war in the Middle East, even though we're about to have a conflict with Iran.
But anyway, the President, along with the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who I think gave a phenomenal speech in Munich last week, they announced today the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge a combined $7 billion towards a Gaza relief package, while five countries have agreed to deploy troops to take part in an international stabilization force to the war-battered Palestinian territory.
Now, a lot of this is going to hinge on one thing: is Hamas going to be willing to disarm?
If not, they're going to be disarmed.
Israel will do that job.
It's up to them.
But $7 billion is just a down payment on the estimated $70 billion that it is estimated to rebuild Gaza.
And it's really going to be up to the people of Gaza.
Are they sick of living in a war-torn, you know, war-torn poverty?
Because that's what you get with the Hamas.
Or do they want to join the free world and have liberty and freedom and prosperity, or do they want to indoctrinate their kids to hate the Jews?
Anyway, I want to play.
This was really historic.
President Trump, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, from earlier today, this is the inaugural Board of Peace meeting.
What we're doing is very simple: peace.
It's called the Board of Peace, and it's all about an easy word to say, but a hard word to produce: peace.
But we're going to produce it, and we've been doing a really good job.
And some of these leaders that are with us have helped me very much during just this first year.
We have a first year like probably no other ever in our country because we settled eight wars and I think a ninth to come.
It turned out to be a tougher one.
I thought that was going to be the easiest one.
I don't care about Nobel Prize.
I care about saving lives, just so you understand.
We play and we all do what we have to do.
I only have one thing.
I don't want to see people killed from parts of the world that are very far away from the United States.
And if I have an ability to turn off wars, I want to use that ability because it's people, millions of people.
It's like the Prime Minister said: 25 million people, maybe.
And that's a small number compared to what it could have been if you really think about it, right?
No, I want to save lives, and I don't care about prizes.
And the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance is raising $2 billion for the support of Gaza.
Additionally, Japan has just committed to host an aid fundraiser, which will be a very big one.
It's already successful.
We know some of the numbers that are being talked about, which will be attended by other nations in the region, including South Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, and others.
And I know that China is going to be involved, and I think Russia is going to be involved.
I think they will be.
I want to have everybody get all sides because it doesn't help when you have all sides with one ideology.
You have to have everybody together for this.
Morocco, Albania, Kosovo, Kazakhstan have all committed troops and police to stabilize Gaza.
Egypt and Jordan are likewise providing very, very substantial help, troops, training, and support for a very trustworthy Palestinian police force.
We think we're getting some very good people on that police force.
And, you know, it's peace in the Middle East.
We have peace in the Middle East.
Think of it.
For years, you've been hearing about peace in the Middle East, and everybody's saying it's impossible.
All of these countries are working together around the vision of a Middle East that is free from the curse of extremism and terror.
And now is time.
And by the way, even people with extremism and preaching extremism, they're exhausted.
They're tired.
It's been going on for too many years.
I don't care who you are.
They're tired.
They want peace.
And now is the time for Iran to join us on a path that will complete what we're doing.
And if they join us, that'll be great.
If they don't join us, that'll be great too.
But it'll be a very different path.
They cannot continue to threaten the stability of the entire region.
They must make a deal.
Or if that doesn't happen, I maybe can understand.
If it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen.
But bad things will happen if it doesn't.
With the commitments announced today, the Board of Peace is proving that it does not just convene countries.
It devises and implements and real solutions happen.
We've come up with solutions.
This is so little talk.
This is very little talk, all action.
First time, it was always talk in the Middle East.
People would talk about peace in the Middle East, and then they'd go home and they'd never even think about it again.
Nothing would happen.
We're providing a model for how responsible sovereign nations can cooperate to take responsibility for confronting problems in their own regions.
The Board of Peace is showing how a better future can be built, starting right here in this room.
And I want to let you know that the United States is going to make a contribution of $10 billion to the Board of Peace.
Thank you.
And we've had great support for that number.
And that number is a very small number when you look at that compared to the cost of war.
That's two weeks of fighting.
It's a very small number.
It sounds like a lot, but it's a very small number.
So we're committed to $10 billion.
Together we can achieve the dream of bringing lasting harmony to a region tortured by centuries of war, suffering, and carnage.
They say 3,000 years.
And hopefully we can lift up the eyes of the world to envision how other intractable conflicts can be settled.
So many conflicts, they say, are impossible to settle.
We've got to settle.
We got, of those eight that we settled, most of them were said to be not settlable.
And they not only got settled, they got settled within days.
More impossible problems can be solved as we go along this very beautiful path.
I think it's a beautiful path.
I think it's such an important day.
Even the weather is beautiful.
We walk in, it's beautiful.
Everything's beautiful.
But the ancient wounds can be healed, and they are indeed ancient.
This has been going on for so many centuries that our entire planet will be a better, safer, more beautiful, and more peaceful place for us all.
We're going to be working with the United Nations very closely.
We're going to bring them back.
I think the United Nations has great potential, really great potential.
It has not lived up to potential.
The eight wars, I never even spoke to them about one of them, and I should be speaking to them about all of them.
Someday I won't be here.
The United Nations will be, I think, is going to be much stronger.
And the Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly.
But we're going to strengthen up the United Nations.
We're going to make sure its facilities are good.
They need help.
And they need help money-wise.
We're going to help them money-wise.
And we're going to make sure the United Nations is viable.
And you have some very good people that the United Nations can do a good job.
But as I said, I've said it for years.
United Nations has tremendous potential.
A lot of people didn't like what I said.
They said, oh, you shouldn't say that because, you know, we don't care about the United Nations.
No, it's really very important.
And I think it's going to eventually live up to potential.
That'll be a big day.
So I want to thank everybody for being here.
You're my friends.
You're great, great leaders.
You're great people.
And I can honestly say, you know, you're strong leaders.
You're tough leaders in many cases.
And every single one that I'm looking at that's right here, I've gotten to know and I've gotten to respect.
And really, you're friends, you're friends of mine.
And if I can help you at all, you let me know.
But this is going to be something, the Board of Peace will be something that the likes of which I don't think anybody's seen before.
We want to talk a little bit about the strategic vision of this organization and begin doing so by first acknowledging that we are here today because the President has, President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has both an ability and a willingness to use the power of his office to think outside the box.
And that's why we're here today.
This was a very unique crisis in Gaza, one that the existing international institutions could not solve or figure out.
It needed a very specific type of solution that required the partnership of all the nations that are here, including those that are here on an observer status.
And we appreciate you coming today and being a part of this as well.
And that's the point I want to drive home today.
And soon you'll hear from Steve and Jared, who, by the way, deserve an incredible amount of credit for pulling this together and working countless hours and traveling all over the world.
They truly deserve our appreciation and thanks for the work they put in under the leadership of President Trump to make this possible.
This Gaza situation was impossible to solve under orthodoxy, under existing structures.
And so what we did is they went to the UN and they got the UN's approval to put this group together and bring these nations together to come up with a very specific solution, solutions to a very unique and specific problem.
We have a long ways to go.
There's a lot of work that remains.
It will require the contribution of every nation state represented here today, and we thank you for being a part of it.
And I hope that this, we hope that this can serve as a model for other complex and difficult situations so they can be solved in the same way.
But right now, the focus is on this one.
We have to get this right.
There is no Plan B for Gaza.
Plan B is going back to war.
No one here wants that.
Plan A, the only path forward, is one that rebuilds Gaza in a way of enduring and sustainable peace where everyone can live there side by side with one another and never worry again about returning to conflict, to war, to human suffering, and to destruction.
And again, Mr. President, thank you for having the vision and the courage to pursue something that has never been done before.
And we're not done yet.
And thank you to Steve Woodkoff and Jared Kushner for the time and the work they put into this.
And thank you on behalf of the State Department and the U.S. government to all of the nations that are here.
Every one of you is indispensable, including our observer partners, who we hope can find your way to join us at some point as officially part of this.
But we are grateful for the fact you're here today and the contributions you've made already.
I will say that this has been, I think, will maybe be one of, if not the most important day of our careers.
And we've had some pretty good careers up here, but this is something very special.
And we're going to straighten out Gaza.
We're going to make Gaza very successful and safe.
And we're also going to maybe take it a step further where we see hotspots around the world.
We can probably do that very easily.
This is a tremendous group of powerful people and brilliant people.
And I think that we can do things that a lot of other people would not be able to even conceive of or think of.
We will help Gaza.
We will straighten it out.
We will make it successful.
We will make it peaceful.
And we will do things like that in other spots.
Spots will come up.
Things will happen that nobody's even thinking about now, not even conceivable.
But we will take care of a lot of things.
And we'll work again with the United Nations and bring it back to health.
It needs help.
It's got tremendous potential, but it needs a lot of help.
And I think we can start with doing that pretty soon.
Michael, I think we're going to work on that very strongly.
We can fix up even the building physically.
I'd love to see beautiful buildings.
I'd like to see buildings fixed up physically, not look like they are in disrepair.
We don't like that.
So we're going to do a job with the United Nations.
We're going to have some very good people.
And you have some very good people there right now, but we're going to put some extra people in and we're going to have it help us.
But most importantly for today, the Board of Peace is going to lead the way in Gaza.
We're going to make Gaza an example of success and safety and unity.
And it's an honor that you're here.
And I want to thank the media for being so respectful.
You're really amazing.
It's given the Board of Peace the respect it deserves.
These are the most powerful people in the world, the richest people in the world through their countries.
And they have made a tremendous commitment.
And the United States likewise has made a tremendous commitment.
Thank you to everybody for your involvement.
And we look forward to working with you over the years for many, many reasons, many very, very good humanitarian reasons.
Thank you all.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
All right.
That was the President and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
That was the inaugural Board of Peace meeting.
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We'll have more coverage of this tonight on Hannity 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
Great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
We will have the latest going on in the Middle East and a lead up, which is likely a conflict with Iran.
Also, Christy Noam will be on tonight.
We'll check in with James Comer reacting to Prince Andrew and his arrest earlier today.
We'll update you on Nancy Guthrie with Nancy Grace.
Oh, and Linda, the woman we played earlier, Relicia Cook, the grandmother who was at Black History Month, the event yesterday that took over the event, was a star.