Sean Hannity Show - Operation Epic Fury: Decapitation Strike
Aired: 2026-03-04
Duration: 30:35


=== 40 Insane Leadership Kills (06:44) ===

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[00:00:09]  If you want to be a part of the program, we have so much news to get to, so much liberal hypocrisy to get to.
[00:00:17]  We're also going to play my interview with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Steve Witkoff, the Mideast envoy who was up to his eyeballs in negotiations with the Iranians.
[00:00:34]  It is spectacular in terms of what they didn't learn after Operation Midnight Hammer.
[00:00:40]  I can't believe they're that dumb, but they really were that dumb, that arrogant, that radical, that insane.
[00:00:51]  I got to tell you, with all that we've discussed in terms of the military might, the weaponry, the sophistication of our weaponry, with all that we've had in terms of intelligence, I mean, we can go through incident after incident.
[00:01:09]  And the fact that after Operation Midnight Hammer, the insane, you know, twisted, bizarre Islamo, radical Islamo-fascist regime just demanded that they still have the right to enrich uranium.
[00:01:25]  Steve Witkoff, when we play this later, he offered them the ability to have, you know, low-enriched uranium, not weapons grade, not even the ability to have weapons grade, and no enrichment facilities in Iran for civilian purposes.
[00:01:42]  They offered it to them for free in perpetuity, and they still walked away from that.
[00:01:47]  Now, so when the first 30 seconds of this conflict start, they took out, I think it was American CIA intelligence, and the Israelis took out the entire leadership.
[00:02:01]  Believe it or not, we actually have laws that prevent us from targeting leadership in conflict and war, which is insane, because that means civilian targets are fine, but you can't choose the leaders that are causing all the problems.
[00:02:17]  So we took out, it turns out it wasn't 40.
[00:02:20]  It wasn't just Ali Khamani and Ahmed Denijad and all the other leaders, but we had this window of opportunity.
[00:02:28]  My understanding is that that window came up.
[00:02:31]  They had been tracking Ali Hamani for a long time, for weeks, just like they tracked Soleimani.
[00:02:38]  And just with incredible intelligence, incredible military precision, we were able to track this guy.
[00:02:46]  And all of these people were meeting probably a war council.
[00:02:51]  This is where Marco Rubio was saying they had intelligence that said that they were likely to pounce on us first.
[00:02:58]  And they took them all out.
[00:02:59]  You would think that in and of itself is amazing.
[00:03:02]  If you go back and you look at 14 bunker buster bombs, I mean, phantom, you know, phantom jets were seen on Iranian radar, whatever the old sophisticated system, because the air defense systems were taken out by the Israelis.
[00:03:19]  You go back to the Israelis, it took out a lot of their missile batteries.
[00:03:22]  They took out their air defense system, their ballistic missile batteries.
[00:03:26]  And that paved the way for Operation Midnight Hammer.
[00:03:29]  And we had full control of the skies like we have right now over Iran.
[00:03:34]  And when the president dropped 14 bunker buster bombs, again, you would think they would have learned a lesson.
[00:03:40]  The first 30 seconds of this conflict begin with taking out more than 40 senior Iranian leaders.
[00:03:47]  The number now is believed to be 49.
[00:03:51]  And so Israel has now, once again, along with the United States, in this case, these are Israeli forces because, again, this is not something legally the United States can do, although technically I'm not so sure that it holds up in court.
[00:04:07]  But anyway, so they meet, the remaining Iranian leaders, you know, meet, you know, and the purpose of this Supreme Council meeting, they gather to choose a successor to the late Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamani.
[00:04:27]  And Israel struck while they were counting the votes for the appointment of the next Supreme Leader.
[00:04:35]  So in other words, you had the first tier of leadership wiped out in the first 30 seconds.
[00:04:41]  Then they meet to pick a new leader.
[00:04:44]  And this, again, just happened in the last, you know, 12, 14 hours, whenever it was.
[00:04:50]  The strike underscores just the absolute depth of Israeli and American intelligence and military precision.
[00:05:00]  But, you know, the penetration inside Tehran, one of the most dramatic military efforts in the history of warfare.
[00:05:10]  And you can add to that some of the things that the Israelis, for example, did when they did the Pager incident with Hezbollah and everybody's Pagers, they knew a couple, if I remember, hundreds, if not thousands of people that had Pagers, they knew everyone's number and they set them off at the same time.
[00:05:30]  And I think they just began to melt or whatever they did at that time.
[00:05:35]  If you think of the last operation going back to last June when they took out Iranian nuclear scientists, the fact that they knew where they were, which was pretty incredible, again, setting the path for America to come in with weapons that Israel doesn't have, and those are the bunker buster bombs.
[00:05:53]  It had originally been believed that you needed two, maybe three, four MACs to take out the Fordot plant and all the other nuclear sites that had been buried deep inside the ground within Iran.
[00:06:09]  And it just was an amazing feat in obliterating their nuclear program.
[00:06:14]  But you have more than 40 of Iran's most senior leaders in the beginning have been killed since the operation.
[00:06:23]  It's estimated 49 eliminated in that first 30 seconds of Operation Epic Fury early Saturday, fracturing the regime's command structure, dealing a crippling blow to their military leadership.
[00:06:35]  So now they're in the process where these clerics now gather to select Iran's new supreme leader.

=== Assembly of Experts Gathering (04:08) ===

[00:06:44]  And it's unclear how many regime officials from the so-called Assembly of Experts were gathered in the building.
[00:06:50]  But again, it's believed to be over 40.
[00:06:52]  And the body includes Khamani or Khamani, a confident who serves as Iran's interim leadership counsel.
[00:07:02]  You want to be the next leader of Iran?
[00:07:03]  This is probably your future.
[00:07:05]  Anyway, Israeli forces, with that intelligence, flattened the building where Iran's 88-member Assembly of Experts had gathered to select the regime's next supreme leader.
[00:07:16]  Linda, would you like to be the next supreme leader of Iran?
[00:07:19]  We'll be glad to send you there.
[00:07:20]  I'll give you a free one-way ticket to Iran, and you can go to the next meeting.
[00:07:26]  I don't think you're going to make it out of there.
[00:07:27]  Of course, I would never want that to happen to you, but you know, I'm kidding.
[00:07:32]  But this is spectacular.
[00:07:34]  This is historic.
[00:07:37]  I've talked a lot about the next generation of weaponry.
[00:07:41]  And, you know, at one point, there were people that were kind of mocking me and saying to me, you don't know what you're talking about.
[00:07:47]  I'm like, yes, I do, because I know many people that work in the weapons industry.
[00:07:52]  I know many people in our Defense Department.
[00:07:55]  I talk to everybody, every place, everywhere.
[00:07:59]  And, you know, future warfare is no longer going to be fought on a battlefield.
[00:08:05]  I mean, there are still idiots out there that actually think Donald Trump is going to put boots on the ground.
[00:08:10]  He's not.
[00:08:11]  Now, they've left open the door the possibility if there is a remote situation that might need a strategic placement.
[00:08:19]  That door is definitely open.
[00:08:21]  But we're not going to have our national treasurer stepping over IEDs without up-armored Humvees like Iraq and Afghanistan and have a forever war.
[00:08:30]  This won't be.
[00:08:31]  That is not part of the Trump doctrine.
[00:08:33]  Anyway, the Assembly of Experts is elected by the Iranian people every eight years and consists of a leadership board of six committees.
[00:08:42]  It has presided over just one leadership transition since 1989 when Ali Khamani was elevated to the position of the supreme leader.
[00:08:52]  Remember, the revolution took place 10 years earlier in 1979.
[00:08:57]  He's been in charge ever since.
[00:08:59]  And its current chair, 94-year-old Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Khamani, alongside his two deputy chairmen, again, Ayatollah's, the latter of which, one of which sits on the interim leadership council formed in the wake of Khamani's death.
[00:09:18]  But this guy was seen as a hardliner who used his position.
[00:09:21]  So all their leadership and their secondary leadership now is wiped out.
[00:09:28]  Over a thousand Iranian combatants have been killed in joint U.S. military operations so far.
[00:09:35]  They have now run close to 2,000 successful, you know, targeted, precision-targeted operations that have all been effective.
[00:09:45]  And the Iranian-American says a strike could mark the very, this is now the end of the regime.
[00:09:52]  Now we got to go back and look at what Donald Trump has been saying and telling us.
[00:09:57]  And if you just pay a little bit of attention to what he's saying, it's pretty interesting.
[00:10:01]  You know, last year, Iran was threatening to attack Mar-a-Lago, you might recall, with bomb-carrying drones.
[00:10:08]  And, you know, these maniacs put a $100 million bounty on Donald Trump's head.
[00:10:13]  And Iranian officials said, Donald Trump, this is July of 25, could face a drone attack while sunbathing at his Florida mansion.
[00:10:20]  Well, I know Donald Trump.
[00:10:21]  He doesn't sunbathe.
[00:10:22]  He plays golf.
[00:10:23]  That's about it.
[00:10:24]  He's done something that he can no longer sunbathe at Mar-a-Lago.
[00:10:29]  I guarantee you, Donald Trump never did went sunbathing in his life.
[00:10:34]  Now, Trump issues an Iran airstrike warning.
[00:10:38]  He's actually saying this is nothing up to this point.
[00:10:41]  He says the big one is coming.
[00:10:44]  And he vowed to step up strikes on Iran saying the big one is coming.
[00:10:48]  He did this on Monday.
[00:10:49]  Did this yesterday.

=== Iran's Nuclear Threat (04:03) ===

[00:10:52]  Some other interesting things that have evolved.
[00:10:54]  I want to go back 11 years in time, and I want to play then-Senator Marco Rubio, now the Secretary of State, and listen to how smart Marco Rubio is.
[00:11:07]  I think everything that needs to be said about the details of this deal have already been said.
[00:11:11]  I do want to be recorded for history's purposes before I know what is going to happen in regards to this if it goes through.
[00:11:18]  Iran will immediately use the money that it's receiving in sanctions relief to begin to build up its conventional capabilities.
[00:11:24]  It will establish the most dominant military power in the region outside of the United States, and it will raise the price of us operating in the region.
[00:11:31]  They're going to build anti-access capabilities, rockets capable of destroying our aircraft carriers and ships.
[00:11:37]  Continue to build these swift boats that are able to come on us, these fast boats that are able to swarm our naval assets.
[00:11:44]  And it'll make it harder and harder for U.S. troops to be in the region.
[00:11:47]  They'll also work with other terrorist groups in the region to target American servicemen and women.
[00:11:51]  And they may or may not deny that they're involved, but they will target us and raise the price of our presence in the Middle East until they hope to completely pull us out of that region.
[00:12:00]  They'll also continue to build long-range missiles, missiles capable of reaching the United States.
[00:12:05]  Those are not affected by this deal, and they'll continue to build them as they've been doing.
[00:12:09]  And then at some point in the near future, when the time is right, they will build a nuclear weapon.
[00:12:14]  And they will do so because at that point they will know that they have become immune, that we will no longer be able to strike their nuclear program because the price of doing so will be too high.
[00:12:26]  Okay, that was Marco Rubio.
[00:12:28]  By the way, Marco Rubio speaking now, let's go to Capitol Hill.
[00:12:34]  Senator Rubio speaking before he heads in there, we'll listen to this report.
[00:12:37]  9,000 Americans have been able to leave the region since the start of this war.
[00:12:40]  We have about 1,500 Americans that are requesting assistance with departure.
[00:12:45]  We have identified and continue to identify charter flights, military flight options, and expanded commercial flight options, meaning working with the airlines to send bigger airplanes with more seats and the combination of those three things.
[00:12:57]  The impediment we're facing now, in many cases, we've had a couple instances in which we have planes in the air and on the way, and unfortunately the airspace gets closed and they have to turn back around.
[00:13:06]  So we're working through those challenges.
[00:13:08]  Here's the message I want to deliver Americans who are in the Middle East and in need of assistance.
[00:13:12]  It is very important.
[00:13:14]  And I asked this of the networks as well.
[00:13:15]  It is important for you to please put both the website and the phone numbers on your screens because we need to know where you are.
[00:13:23]  We need to have contact information for Americans that need assistance.
[00:13:26]  They have to register with us because as these options begin to open up, and as they open up, we have to be able to call you.
[00:13:32]  We have to be able to reach you.
[00:13:33]  We have to be able to know where you're staying so we can get this information to you and coordinate appropriately.
[00:13:38]  And it'll be a variety of methods.
[00:13:39]  Charter flights, military flights and transports, expanded commercial opportunities, and in some cases, land routes that will allow them to go to neighboring countries who might have open airports at that point.
[00:13:50]  So it's a lot of different things here that need to happen in order to move people, but it all starts by knowing that you're there.
[00:13:55]  It all starts by knowing where you are and how we can get a hold of you.
[00:14:00]  So I'm asking the networks and all of the media outlets, please publicize the two phone numbers that we've put out as well as the website so people can contact us and register.
[00:14:10]  We've had thousands of people call already.
[00:14:12]  As I said, we've identified almost 1,600 that are requesting assistance with departure, but we need you to please be able to identify that.
[00:14:20]  As I came in, I also saw the media reports about Dubai's consulate.
[00:14:25]  The last update I had with seconds before getting before these cameras was that a drone unfortunately struck a parking lot adjacent to the Chancellery building and then set off a fire in that place.
[00:14:36]  All personnel are accounted for.
[00:14:38]  As you're aware, we began drawing down personnel from our diplomatic facilities in advance of this.
[00:14:44]  In the cases, for example, of Beirut, we basically drew down to bare bones as well as in Baghdad and in Erbil and in a couple other posts as well.

=== President's Decision: Addressing Iran Threat (15:38) ===

[00:14:56]  So we've been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under direct attack from a terroristic regime.
[00:15:04]  With an update, I will obviously refer you to the president of the Senate.
[00:15:06]  All right, that's Senator Marco Rubio asking the media for their assistance to get information to people that may be in trouble in the region.
[00:15:15]  We will pass more of that on to you as the day unfolds.
[00:15:19]  All right, we've got to take a quick break.
[00:15:20]  We'll come back.
[00:15:21]  We'll play my interview with the Middle East envoy Steve Wickoff, who sat across from the Iranians in negotiations as they sat there and demanded the right to build nuclear weapons, especially after Midnight Hammer.
[00:15:33]  How dumb are they?
[00:15:35]  And my interview with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, straight ahead.
[00:15:39]  All right, let's go back.
[00:15:40]  Marco Rubio, so good with the media and with Democrats.
[00:15:44]  He's so smart and he's so clever and he's so calm.
[00:15:48]  It just is, and the depth of his knowledge is so beyond impressive.
[00:15:53]  Let's go back to this little gaggle before he goes in to brief the gang of eight.
[00:15:59]  Suffice it to say that our objectives remain as they've been identified from the beginning and by the president laid out clearly yesterday.
[00:16:05]  Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and we will now not allow Iran to hide behind the immunity of a massive short-term ballistic missile inventory or the ability to make them or launch them.
[00:16:17]  And so CENTCOM in a joint operations is carrying out a systematic destruction of their missile belt, destruction of their launchers, and destruction of their ability to make these, as well as the destruction of their Navy.
[00:16:30]  From what I've been told by the Department of War, everything is on or ahead of schedule and proceeding on these objectives.
[00:16:36]  We have every confidence in the world that these objectives will be achieved.
[00:16:40]  The last point I would make is, and I said this yesterday and I repeat, what's about to, you know, you're about to see, you know, we're going to unleash Chiang on these people in the next few hours and days.
[00:16:49]  You're going to really begin to perceive a change in the scope and in the intensity of these attacks as, frankly, the two most powerful air forces in the world take apart this terroristic regime and defang it and take away its ability to threaten its neighbors or hide behind a zone of immunity that allows them to develop their nuclear ambitions.
[00:17:07]  This terroristic, radical, cleric-led regime cannot be ever allowed to have nuclear weapons.
[00:17:16]  We saw what they were willing to do to their own people.
[00:17:18]  They were willing to slaughter their own people in the streets.
[00:17:21]  Imagine what they would do to us.
[00:17:23]  Imagine what they would do to others.
[00:17:25]  Under President Trump, that will never, ever happen.
[00:17:29]  Yesterday you said, yesterday you talked about Israel.
[00:17:31]  Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary.
[00:17:33]  Please, guys, I can't hear him all.
[00:17:34]  Yes.
[00:17:35]  Yesterday, you told us that Israel was going to strike Iran, and that's why we needed to get involved.
[00:17:41]  Today the president said that Iran was going to get it.
[00:17:43]  Yeah, your statement is false.
[00:17:44]  So that's not what I was asked very specifically.
[00:17:46]  Were you there yesterday?
[00:17:47]  Yes, I am.
[00:17:48]  Okay.
[00:17:48]  No, did you were you the one that because somebody asked me a question yesterday, did we go in because of Israel?
[00:17:52]  And I said, you were asking me that, you know, follow up.
[00:17:55]  And I said, no.
[00:17:56]  I told you this had to happen anyway.
[00:17:57]  The president made a decision, and the decision he made was that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ballistic missile program, that Iran was not going to be allowed to hide behind its ability to conduct these attacks.
[00:18:08]  That decision had been made.
[00:18:09]  The president made a decision to systematically destroy this terroristic capability that they had, and we carried that out.
[00:18:16]  I was very clear in that answer.
[00:18:17]  This was a question of timing, of why this had to happen as a joint operation, not the question of the intent.
[00:18:22]  Once the president made a decision that negotiations were not going to work, that they were playing us on the negotiations, and that this was a threat that was untenable, the decision was made to strike them.
[00:18:31]  That's what I said yesterday, and you guys need to play it.
[00:18:34]  If you're going to play these statements, you need to play the whole statement, not clip it, to reach a narrative that you want to do, all right?
[00:18:39]  This is your statement.
[00:18:40]  Excuse me, go ahead.
[00:18:41]  What do you make of the war powers resolution that's being considered here in Congress?
[00:18:45]  I mean, Congress votes on those.
[00:18:46]  They can if they want.
[00:18:47]  There's mechanisms for it.
[00:18:48]  We've complied with the War Powers Act, even though we believe it's unconstitutional, as has every other administration.
[00:18:54]  Every other president has found the War Powers Act to be unconstitutional.
[00:18:58]  Nonetheless, we notified Gang of Eight, which was an appropriate mechanism by which to notify Congress.
[00:19:04]  We sent the notification within 48 hours, the way the law requires.
[00:19:08]  I'm here today to have, I don't know, my sixth or seventh briefing before the entirety of the House and Senate, which is far more than I ever got from any administration in the time that I was here, certainly when I was a member of the Gang of Eight.
[00:19:19]  And so we've complied with all we've over-complied with the law and what it requires.
[00:19:23]  This is an action by the President to address a real threat, a real threat.
[00:19:27]  This is hostilities designed to eliminate a threat to the safety and the security of the United States and to our allies.
[00:19:36]  Is there a plan in place to evacuate Americans before the attack?
[00:19:40]  Well, that's the plan we're trying to carry out.
[00:19:42]  The problem is, or the challenge we are facing, is airspace closures.
[00:19:45]  If a country closes their airport, for example, in some cases, the airports have been hit.
[00:19:49]  So the airport in Kuwait was hit.
[00:19:51]  So if an airport's been attacked or the airspace is closed, then we can have the planes lined up to go, but we can't get them to land because we don't have the permissions to land there.
[00:20:00]  So that's the challenge.
[00:20:01]  But rest assured, we are confident that we are going to be able to assist every American.
[00:20:05]  As I told you right now, we have about a little over 1,500, maybe closer to 1,600 Americans requesting assistance.
[00:20:12]  And we know that we're going to be able to help them.
[00:20:14]  It's going to take a little time because we don't control the airspace closures.
[00:20:17]  That said, there may be more people out there that need help.
[00:20:20]  We need to know who you are.
[00:20:21]  So please, I'm asking the media, publicize the phone numbers and the website because we need people to call in so we have their name, we have their contact information, we have their location and their request.
[00:20:31]  So as these opportunities begin to open up, we can act very quickly to reach them and get them out of harm's way.
[00:20:36]  Mr. Secretary, Mr. Secretary, I want to just clarify what you said.
[00:20:38]  I want to just clarify what you said, because you said, you said, you said, you said, you said, you said, no, but you have to read, if you're going to read the whole statement.
[00:20:44]  Your quote is about, we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
[00:20:47]  We knew that would precipitate an attack.
[00:20:49]  Yeah, no, I understand.
[00:20:49]  But listen, all right, let me understand that.
[00:20:52]  But I had a very specific question from that gentleman, right?
[00:20:55]  The president said, the president said that.
[00:20:57]  Hold on one second.
[00:20:57]  I asked the Air Force Israelis.
[00:20:59]  Okay, but let me answer, because this is my press conference.
[00:21:01]  Okay.
[00:21:02]  You asked me, I was asked a very specific question.
[00:21:04]  So you guys can misrepresent it, but I was asked this very specific question yesterday.
[00:21:08]  The bottom line is this.
[00:21:09]  The president determined we were not going to get hit first.
[00:21:12]  It's that simple, guys.
[00:21:13]  We are not going to put Americans' troops in harm's way.
[00:21:15]  If you tell the President of the United States that if we don't go first, we're going to have more people killed and more people injured, the president's going to go first.
[00:21:22]  That's what he did.
[00:21:22]  That's what the president will always do.
[00:21:24]  He will always put the safety and security of our men and women in uniform and of all Americans before anything else.
[00:21:29]  He's always going to do that.
[00:21:30]  And that's what he did here.
[00:21:32]  In addition to that, I would argue that this threat from Iran, they are hiding behind these missiles and hiding behind these drones.
[00:21:38]  They wanted to reach a point where you couldn't touch them and then they could do whatever the hell they wanted with their nuclear program.
[00:21:43]  And there is no way in the world that this terroristic regime was going to get nuclear weapons, not under Donald Trump's lawsuit.
[00:21:50]  That's going to do with Israel.
[00:21:51]  It has nothing to do with Israel.
[00:21:54]  There's a general question of why the president gave the green light.
[00:21:56]  And then there's a question of why did it have to happen this weekend?
[00:21:59]  Are you saying it had to happen this weekend because of that Israeli action?
[00:22:03]  No, this weekend presented a unique opportunity to take joint action against this threat.
[00:22:08]  And I've just analyzed, we wanted this to have maximum success.
[00:22:10]  We want this operation to be successful at achieving its objectives.
[00:22:14]  I'll repeat the objectives.
[00:22:15]  The president laid them out yesterday.
[00:22:17]  Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
[00:22:19]  It cannot have, and therefore it cannot have the things it was hiding behind to have a nuclear weapons program.
[00:22:23]  What are those things?
[00:22:24]  Number one, we are going to destroy their missiles and their missile launchers.
[00:22:28]  We are going to destroy their capability to make these missiles and these launchers.
[00:22:32]  And we are going to destroy their Navy.
[00:22:34]  Those are the objectives.
[00:22:35]  And this weekend, acting at this time, gave us the highest probability of success in achieving those objectives.
[00:22:40]  And as the Department of War will brief you, we are on or ahead of schedule to do that.
[00:22:45]  The U.S. attack would have happened no matter what.
[00:22:47]  With the U.S. attack about it, no matter what Israel is planning to do.
[00:22:52]  The President had already made a decision to act on the timing.
[00:22:55]  The President acted on the timing that gave us the highest chance of success.
[00:22:59]  And that's what you're seeing play out right now.
[00:23:01]  You're seeing it play out right now, and you'll see it in the days to come.
[00:23:04]  We will systematically take apart their missile program.
[00:23:07]  We will destroy their ability to sponsor terrorism, by the way.
[00:23:09]  We will destroy their factories.
[00:23:11]  We will destroy their Navy.
[00:23:12]  Those objectives are going to be met.
[00:23:14]  We're well on our way to meeting them.
[00:23:15]  It will not be easy.
[00:23:16]  There will be a price to pay for it.
[00:23:18]  But that is a much lower price to pay than having a nuclear-armed Iran.
[00:23:22]  I got to go meet these guys.
[00:23:23]  Hold on.
[00:23:24]  I mean, just spectacular.
[00:23:27]  Maybe one of the best gaggles ever, Linda, that I've ever heard.
[00:23:31]  Marco Rubio going into the gang of aid to update them yet again.
[00:23:35]  The big headline of the day is there was a meeting of Iran Supreme Council.
[00:23:41]  The purpose of the meeting was to choose a successor of the late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamani.
[00:23:49]  And Israel, you know, along with American intelligence, knew this meeting was taking place, and Israel struck while they were counting the votes as many as 88 people, other leaders, on top of the 49 others that they took out in the first 30 seconds of this campaign.
[00:24:06]  You know, Iranian American says the strike could mark the beginning of the end of this regime.
[00:24:11]  The regime is done.
[00:24:13]  It's just a matter of who will ultimately replace it, which we'll get into later in the program.
[00:24:17]  But, you know, Operation Epic Fury marks the largest U.S. firepower in a generation.
[00:24:23]  And now we have about 1,500 Iranian combatants killed, including their top leadership.
[00:24:30]  We don't even know who's making any decisions.
[00:24:32]  That's why every country in the region has been hit by Iranian ballistic missiles, what they're able to get off.
[00:24:41]  And most of them are being taken out of the air.
[00:24:44]  But U.S. is sending more forces to the area.
[00:24:47]  U.S. Central Command reports two days ago the Iranian regime had 11 ships in the Gulf of Oman.
[00:24:53]  Today they have zero.
[00:24:54]  They're all gone.
[00:24:57]  UN nuclear watchdog says Iran's nuclear plan sustained some recent damage.
[00:25:03]  Not much fallout from that.
[00:25:06]  The Secretary of State mentioning they're going to do everything possible to get the 1,500 to 1,600 Americans in the region out of the area, obviously caring about American lives as this conflict continues.
[00:25:19]  Iran did claim the straits of Hormuz are closed.
[00:25:22]  They're not.
[00:25:23]  The U.S. destroyed 11 ships there.
[00:25:26]  The Iranian internet blackout passes 60 hours, leaving citizens cut off.
[00:25:32]  But hopefully in time, when the time is right, hopefully we can even get arms into the hands of those Iranians that need to fight back against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and remaining police and Quds forces that might exist.
[00:25:47]  Hamani's wife is dead after the Saturday strike.
[00:25:51]  Apparently died after sustaining injuries in the airstrikes that killed her husband.
[00:25:56]  I mean, there's so much news.
[00:25:59]  The Qataris shot down two of Iran's Russian-built supersonic bombers.
[00:26:04]  And this operation is about as close to flawless as you could ever expect.
[00:26:11]  And it just, you know, every American should be proud of our military.
[00:26:15]  And the decision of this president to insist that Iran will never get nuclear weapons.
[00:26:21]  And Trump did rebuff Iran's recent request to restart negotiations.
[00:26:26]  He said it is too late.
[00:26:28]  They want to talk.
[00:26:29]  I said too late.
[00:26:31]  The U.S. is now using Iran's own drone technology to deliver retribution against the Iranians.
[00:26:40]  The chairman of the Joint Chief, Raisin Kane, says the U.S. has achieved the air superiority now over the Iranian skies.
[00:26:49]  I mentioned that Mahmoud Ah Madenijad is dead.
[00:26:54]  U.S. airstrikes have sunk the entire Iranian Navy, according to the Daily Wire.
[00:27:00]  I mean, this is unbelievable success.
[00:27:04]  By the way, Iranians all over the world, they're celebrating, Linda.
[00:27:07]  I don't know if you saw the videos of their liberation by doing the Trump dance.
[00:27:11]  You know, his YMCA dance, which is pretty funny.
[00:27:17]  This is a moment where we should all be grateful that we have a president that understands the nature of evil and taking it out before it becomes an even bigger problem.
[00:27:30]  Steve Wickoff shocked me last night when he said we even offered them low-grade civilian-use uranium that we would give to them for free in perpetuity, and they turned it all down.
[00:27:42]  And this strike today is beyond spectacular.
[00:27:46]  You know, remember how we got here?
[00:27:47]  Hillary Clinton, who in 2008 claimed, if I'm president, I will strike Iran.
[00:27:53]  Okay.
[00:27:53]  And by the way, it's not the time to defund the DHS, is it, for you idiot Democrats out there?
[00:27:59]  Because, yeah, we have over, you know, 12 million plus illegals under Harris and Biden and Maorkis that came to this country from over 200 countries, including countries with terror ties.
[00:28:12]  You know, Barack Obama gives $1.7 billion in cash and other currency from cargo planes that was used to fund the nuclear program in Iran and terror in the region.
[00:28:24]  In 2014, Iran released videos showing the beheading of American journalists James Foley and Steve Sotloff and later aid worker Peter Kosig.
[00:28:34]  President Obama answered by giving them, you know, cargo planes full of cash in other currency.
[00:28:41]  It's unbelievable.
[00:28:42]  President Trump actually put out a picture.
[00:28:44]  We know who's responsible for Iran's nuclear program with a picture of Obama.
[00:28:49]  You know, last night I asked the Prime Minister of Israel, what do you say to those people that claim that, oh, Israel, you know, forced Donald Trump.
[00:28:59]  Bibi, I don't think I've ever seen him laugh in an interview like that.
[00:29:03]  I'm like, I've known Trump 30 years.
[00:29:05]  Nobody tells Donald Trump what he's going to do or not do.
[00:29:07]  That question is asinine, and it's usually given by people that don't know Donald Trump, don't know his mindset.
[00:29:17]  The president's saying that we will find out the retaliation Iran will face, and he's very clear in saying the worst, the more aggressive tactics are coming.
[00:29:29]  You know, anyone saying Israel sucked us into this war does not understand Donald Trump and the arguments that he has made.
[00:29:36]  You know, in the last century, we got to learn from history.
[00:29:40]  When we didn't take on the likes of Stalin and Hitler and Mussolini and Tojo and Pol Pot, well, 100 million human souls were taken according to estimates.
[00:29:52]  Marco Rubio confirming Iran was about to try and kill Americans.
[00:29:56]  Democrats would have been grilling him on Capitol Hill if we didn't strike.
[00:30:00]  Think about that.
[00:30:01]  That's all true, too.
[00:30:03]  When it comes to striking Iran, Donald Trump has been consistent for 47 years.
[00:30:07]  We found a clip of him.
[00:30:08]  I wish I had time to play it.
[00:30:11]  But there's never been a president like this one that knows history, that understands history, and that is preventing the possibility of potentially millions to be harmed by this radical death cult, which is what their stated mission has been for many years.
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