Sean Hannity addresses the Israel conflict and Iran's potential regime collapse, citing President Trump's reports of military defections and Operation Epic Fury's deployment of A-10s in the Strait of Hormuz. He criticizes NATO allies for weakness while warning that 460 kilograms of enriched uranium could be weaponized within days, urging control of Karg Island to secure oil prices. Hannity condemns UN Resolution 2817 as anti-American, praises Secretary Hegseth for invoking faith, and contrasts Iranian leadership families in U.S. universities with domestic political debates, framing the crisis as a test of American resolve against global adversaries. [Automatically generated summary]
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Now, this does have an interpreter, so stay with it.
Let's just dip in and hear a little bit of what he has to say.
We have that.
Brothers and sisters, it's citizens of Israel.
I'm proud of you.
I'm proud for your strength and standing firm.
I know it's difficult to remain in the bomb shelters and the safe rooms.
I know the difficulties with employers, with studies, for the children, how difficult it is for the elderly and for all those serving the reserves.
And we in the entire government are working daily in order to make it easier for you to open up the education, also the marketplace, to also help everyone, families, businesses, etc.
We are spending a great deal of money, and we will have to add more and more to do so.
One thing I know for sure, I know that you're listening, listening to the instructions and going to the protective spaces.
All of that gives us to the IDF and the security forces to continue fighting to continue the effort to reach the targets, the goals of this campaign.
Oh, the whole world knows.
We are a nation of lions.
Everyone knows it from his own, from your home home, from your own families.
The lions roar.
It's kind of hard to listen to.
I guess that's kind of proof of life, which we've never gotten from the Supreme Leader's son, who the Supreme Leader never wanted to be in that position.
We are going to get into this whole issue of gas and oil and a lot of the propaganda that's going on.
One thing President Trump said today, I think it is worth reporting on.
He revealed that the Iranian troops are now beginning to lay down their arms and deserting their posts as their leaders have been taken out one after the other.
You have a lot of military defections in Iran, he said from the Oval Office.
I don't blame them.
Scott Besson also weighed in, saying we're seeing the defections at all levels.
They're starting to sense what's going on with the regime.
It doesn't get reported here in the U.S. very well, but we are trouncing them from the air and the regime will probably collapse within itself.
At Treasury, we have seen where they've wired their money out of the country.
We're coming for that.
We're going to get it back to the Iranian people, which is great news, too.
You don't think of that a lot of times.
The president is making major progress and really fixated and focused on the Straits of Hormuz, the Strait of Hormuz.
And the U.S. Military Times reports that U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft are now engaged in maritime interdiction operations along with the southern flank of Operation Epic Fury targeting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and their fast attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs saying early this morning, the A-10, the Warthog, is now engaged across the southern flank, targeting fast attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz.
This is General Dan Kane raising Kane said during the Pentagon briefing this morning.
The announcement marks an expansion of the Warthogs confirmed role in Epic Fury and Central Command releasing imagery of the A-10C Thunderbolt and receiving fuel in flight while supporting the operation, the first official visuals of the aircraft in the campaign.
Now, that aircraft can loiter for hours standing ready to execute a mission whenever needed, which is pretty amazing.
I mean, the spectacular display of the U.S. military here, it will be studied for the ages.
I mean, I think you can mark this, that this is a demarcation in terms of the real next, the beginning of that next generation of weaponry that we have talked so often about.
Although we've had a lot of these weapons for years, but it's never been, in my view, never been used as properly as it is now.
One thing on the issue of gas prices that I think is important to point out: yeah, okay, gas prices.
I mean, the price of oil is up.
It was, what, at $96 a barrel?
It's up, but it's, it's, it's, I mean, the markets fluctuate, but the president is making a lot of efforts to bring down the price of that oil.
You know, and here's what's frustrating to me: the corrupt and abusively biased media.
You know, we're told that this is going to wind down in fairly short order, and I can define it.
I'd say, let's see where we are in three to four weeks from now.
And I would imagine that there's really a couple of major operations to accomplish.
And then I'd argue that at that point, it's going to be in the hands of the Iranian people what they do with it.
And I'll explain what the difference is.
I'll give you one example.
The AP called it good news for consumers when Biden's gas stood at $3.99 a gallon.
That was in August of 2022.
That was before he raided, or that was right after he raided the strategic petroleum reserves because he knew there was a midterm election coming and he knew that that would hurt him.
And the media is hysterically negative coverage about this.
What will be, I can say with 100% certainty, a temporary spike in oil prices and then probably a massive reduction, especially if America takes control of Carg Island, where they export 7.5 million barrels of oil a day.
If Biden got too much blame when the price of gasoline shot up to a record $5 a gallon by mid-June in 2022, this is how CNN reports it.
He now hopes he gets credit for dropping prices just below $4 a gallon.
There have been 71 straight days.
Oh, my goodness.
He got it to 4.
And the only difference is this is a military effort so that we don't burden our children and grandchildren with a nuclear-armed Iran.
Far more noble reasons than this adherence to climate alarmism and phony science.
But Biden doubled gas prices during his first 16 months in office, and that's when it got up to $5 a gallon.
That's why he had to raid the strategic petroleum reserves.
We do have a lot of other news, and I think the funniest thing is that there have been people out there commenting, Donald Trump is losing his base.
No, we played it yesterday.
CNN reports, no, actually, 100% of MAGA backs Trump.
And these people just want to advance this narrative on a whole variety of ways.
There is a lot of discussion.
There's a lot written about the people within the administration that have been against mid-Nighthammer and Epic Fury.
And I believe also in the case of Maduro, I guess the most prominent names being Tulsi Gabbard and Vice President JD Vance.
I may surprise some of you.
I don't mind people that have opposing voices that have the ear of the president.
I don't mind it at all.
Make your best case, as long as when all said and done, you support the president.
And I think it's good for the president to hear best case scenario, worst case scenario.
And I think that ultimately that this is why we elect a commander-in-chief.
This is why you need somebody with moral clarity.
This is why you need somebody that understands evil.
This is why you need somebody that understands history.
And I went over this in great detail now a couple of times.
I think that Donald Trump is applying three separate historical lessons to this.
And we'll talk to Bill O'Reilly about it maybe later today.
But one would be Reagan peace through strength.
And he built up our military massively during his first term.
That has greatly benefited us now.
Number one.
Number two, I think he learned the lessons of the last century: 100 million human souls dead.
I've been talking a lot about that.
I won't repeat it here.
And I also think he learned the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, which is where no forever wars come from.
I think he also adds to that part of the Trump doctrine: no forever wars.
And if we're liberating a country while also defending ourselves, they're going to pay for that liberation in the end.
The U.S. is now striking Iranian naval targets.
The U.S. forces destroying Iranian naval targets that threaten the international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
And anyway, the shipments have slowed as they clear this out.
Iran's supreme leader apparently is not functioning, is misfunctioning, not controlling the regime.
Again, reports that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, other former loyalists to the regime, are laying down their arms and they want to get out of harm's way.
I think this has been a terrible mistake that has been exposed.
There was an interesting interview that Maria Baratoromo did discussing the broader implications of Iran's actions and their miscalculation on so many different levels.
You know, Iran's decision to expand its targets now is a huge mistake.
I mean, it is rather ironic.
I mean, the world in many ways is being reconfigured.
I have no faith no longer in Europe.
I have no faith in Great Britain.
I have no faith in France.
I have no faith in Spain and Canada.
I've never had faith in, to be very honest.
And all of NATO is collapsing before our eyes.
What good is an alliance if you are in the middle of a conflict?
They won't even send a ship to help keep the Strait of Hormuz, where they benefit far more greatly than we do.
Who would have ever thought that the countries that support America removing the Iranian regime, Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Omam, Qatar, and Bahrain, and I'm sure the Egyptians do too, but not France, not Great Britain, not Spain.
But there will be a price to pay in the end, just like they have had unfettered immigration without assimilation.
They will pay a price for that.
They have allowed Sharia courts to now evolve separately and apart from their own judicial system in Great Britain, no-go zones in France and other parts of Europe.
Terrible.
And they add to that climate alarmism, the embrace of socialism, add to that their lack of urgency on national security and defense.
They have let their guard down now for decades.
Where's Maggie Thatcher when you need her?
But there are some challenges still ahead.
And I want to go through these a little bit.
And I think one of the main challenges is when Steve Witkoff told me they had 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium, we have to ask the question and we have to deal with it before we leave is where is that enriched uranium?
Because that's the uranium that if they ever get the ability to enrich again, that could be turned into weapons grade in seven to 10 days.
That's a problem.
That's a big problem.
And so we'll have to see what happens on that front.
I think getting rid of the remnants of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, that's going to be part of the problem.
Ensuring the safety of the Strait of Hormuz, that's probably the last part of this.
I would imagine that we will take control of Karg Island, considering that is the lifeblood of their entire economy in Iran.
And there's a reason President Trump has not destroyed it up to this point, which I think is smart.
But they've turned the entire region against them, and they really don't have an ability to fight back anymore, which just shows you how stupid it is.
I'm going to get into this in more detail after the bottom of the hour.
New York Post printed this today.
The children of Iran's regime leaders, by the way, that are now dead, many of them are being educated here in America.
And they are students or professors at colleges from New York to Los Angeles.
Yeah, the Iranian leaders that call us the great Satan and Chanteth to America, their kids are at prestigious universities all across the U.S., University of Massachusetts, New York's Union College, George Washington University.
Now, they actually pointed out, I mean, we're talking about Ali Larajani, who was just killed this week.
We're talking about his daughter.
And I don't want to bring any harm to his daughter or the daughter of the ex-president Mohammed Khatami or the son of the Iranian cabinet member also killed or the daughter of the intelligence officer, senior intelligence officer, or the daughter of one of the major Ayatollahs and the son of the medical minister in Iran.
Why are they in this country?
It's time for them to go home.
I'm sorry.
They don't belong in this country.
Sorry to be so blunt.
Well, you can't hold that the sins of the fathers shall not be passed on to the next generation.
I'm sorry if they're an enemy of the United States.
Sorry, wrong.
By the way, the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, contradicting this guy, Joe Kent.
Joe Kent contradicts Joe Kent, though.
As we pointed out yesterday, I'm not going to belabor that point today.
He's not a great golfer.
He's a mediocre tennis player.
Joe Kent Contradicts Himself00:02:00
But he's pretty good on the radio.
Sean Hannity is on right now.
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Just have to wonder.
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Pathetic NATO Allies00:05:21
Linda, we were just speaking about how our NATO allies are pathetic.
Didn't I just say that?
And I said it last year.
You did indeed.
I said it yesterday on this program.
Yes, sir.
And I'm frankly disgusted with Great Britain and France and Germany and even Italy.
I thought I expected more out of Georgia, whatever her name is.
I agree.
Maloney, I expected more from her.
The Netherlands, Japan, Canada, on this issue of the Strait of Hormuz.
We get 1% of our oil from going through that strait.
Not much.
And all the president said is, hey, maybe you want to help us here.
And now, maybe after a little time thinking about it, well, now we have a joint statement from the leaders of the UK and France and Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Canada on the Strait of Hormuz.
We condemn in the strongest terms.
I mean, they are so pathetically weak.
This has now been evolving for decades.
I will not be surprised if NATO collapses under its own weight because they're not reliable partners.
You would think, especially the continent of Europe, might have learned a thing or two about dealing with evil threats, you know, while you can neutralize them before they become so powerful that millions of people can die.
Because that's exactly what happened in Europe.
It's frustrating as hell to me that these leaders are so pathetically weak, but they have neglected national security and national defense as individual countries.
As a continent, they have been pathetically weak.
Until Trump got in this time, demanding that they more than double their share that they pay for NATO.
And even with the doubling, we pay Than all of these countries combined, our quote, NATO allies.
We don't need them.
We really don't.
And, you know, when President Trump said, hey, you might want to send some ships over to help keep the Strait of Hormuz, where you get your energy from.
We're not getting our energy from it.
And then finally, Great Britain said, well, we'll consider it.
Trump said, don't bother.
I mean, this is the genius of Winston Churchill.
I thought this was the lesson that we're supposed to learn with the rise of Hitler and his publishing of Mein Kampf and, you know, the idiotic, imbecilic, historically ignorant, you know, Neville Chamberlain, you know, meeting with Hitler in Munich and coming back and telling the people of Great Britain we can have peace in our time.
So they've neglected the national security, both collectively and independently as countries.
They have had unfettered immigration without any assimilation, resulting in Sharia courts and no-go zones in parts of Europe, which is insane because you don't have people that want to be a part of your country.
They want to be isolated and separated.
How is that going to end?
I don't think you have to be a genius to figure that out.
And then, of course, their embrace of radical socialism, climate alarmism.
I mean, to quote Margaret Thatcher, they've gone more than wobbly.
They've gone backwards.
I mean, it's just pathetic.
We express our deep concern about the escalating conflict.
We call on Iran to cease immediately its threats.
I'm sure that Iran is paying really close attention.
The laying of mines and drone and missile attacks and other attempts to block the strait to commercial shipping and to comply with the UN Security Council Resolution 2817.
Another worthless globalist organization, the UN, historically anti-American and anti-Semitic.
Don't care about the UN.
That's more ways we can save money.
And they go on: freedom of navigation is a fundamental principle of international law, including under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Linda, why am I not impressed with this statement?
I wouldn't be impressed with it.
I'm not impressed with it.
The effects of Iran's actions will be felt by people in all parts of the world, especially the most vulnerable.
Consistent with the UN Security Council Resolution 2817, we emphasize that such interference with international shipping and the disruption of global energy supply chains constitute a threat to international peace and security.
Are you people this late and this dumb?
Where have you been for three weeks?
In this regard, we call for an immediate comprehensive moratorium on attacks on civilian infrastructure, including oil and gas installations.
We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the strait.
We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.
Where are you?
Where have you been?
Gladiator Scene with Commodus00:02:03
It's kind of like the scene from Gladiator.
And Maximus is with Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of Rome.
And, you know, they win this final battle against the Germanians, I think, at that time.
And then in comes the pathetic Commodus, the son of Marcus Aurelius, after it's all said and done.
And he goes, Father, father, have I missed the battle?
You've missed the war.
And then later in the movie, it shows how Marcus Aurelius calls in Maximus, General Maximus, who was played brilliantly by Russell Crowe, and says, upon my death, I shall empower you to restore Rome to its former greatness to a republic.
And then he says, do you not accept this great honor?
With all my heart, no.
That is why it must be you.
That's what he said in the movie.
And he said, what about Commodus, your son?
Commodus is not a moral man.
You have known this your entire life.
Is this freaking you out that I know all this?
I got to be honest with you.
Your gladiator voice is a lot like a godfather voice.
So I don't know if you're channeling.
I'm not sure what's going on.
I was waiting for you to sort of segue into Michael.
I don't know.
I wasn't sure what was going on.
I want to say to everyone seated here tonight, when my son Michael comes back, I will stand by the peace we have agreed to here.
But should any accident befall him, I will hold all of you at this table responsible for what happens to my son Michael.
That's the best I got.
I got to tell you, that's your best.
You should open every speaking engagement with a little bit of the hot music in that.
America Needs a Reality Check00:07:36
It's your best.
Everyone loves.
I'll tell you what they love.
They love.
Clinton still works.
No, that's all the hot chicks here.
I'm going to give you a tour backstage right after I'm done.
No, that's just creepy.
I'll say it.
Nobody else will say it.
There, I said it.
I like that one.
That's funny.
Yeah, that's funny.
Still not better than the other one.
Sean Hannity dropped the golden EIB microphone.
And you will never let me play it on air, which is even funnier than not doing that.
No, you're not.
It's funny.
Not to me.
I can't stand hearing it.
I hate it.
You're not allowed.
No, you're banned.
Slam bang.
Oh, my gosh.
You know, you just enjoy torturing me.
It's pretty funny.
I think.
All right, I'm sending you a copy of what I just read because this is important.
Copy?
And I just, I am like stunned at how stupid these people are.
I am stunned at how weak they are.
I'm stunned at how unreliable they are.
And I would not be surprised if there are major consequences for this.
But anyway, on to the work that the president and the Israelis are doing.
I mean, they have done an incredible job.
I think that we have this Iranian hidden mountain with, you know, this 460 kilograms.
We've already hit 8,000 targets inside of Iran.
You know, some people are saying we're running out of targets.
I think that the three main things is we have to ensure that the 460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium never ends up in the wrong hands.
That would probably mean retrieving it.
That the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces are done with to prepare the way for hopefully the people of Iran.
There's no guarantee about that.
I'd say probably we need to be in control of Karg Island, probably.
One UN nuclear chief warning that a strike near the uranium reactor risks, you know, the reddish lines that there could be radiation fallout.
That would be on the Iranians if, in fact, that happens.
But, you know, beyond that, I think that there's never been a greater intelligence collaboration success in the history of warfare.
And I don't think there's been a greater military success in such a short period of time as this one has been.
And I think, you know, the harder part, closing it out now, well, none of it's been easy.
None of it will ever be easy.
Did you notice that not only did the First Lady of New York City like 70 times the people that were posting positive things about October 7th, which is so disgusting, twisted, and ugly, but Mayor Zoron, Marxist Kami Mamdani's wife, she celebrated the Palestinian terrorists in a flurry of resurfaced social media posts, and now they found another one in one post.
She was 15 years old and apparently fired off the N-word.
Now, who knows?
Did you see what Margaret Brennan over at CBS did?
So Pete Hegset said this morning, may Almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight.
And again, to the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches in the name of Jesus Christ.
Okay, he's a Christian.
Good for him.
Brennan seemed taken aback.
The Secretary of War, not defense, Margaret, the American, you know, tells the American people to pray for our troops on bended knee and invoke the name of Jesus.
Wow.
That's terrible.
How could that happen?
You know, you mean like as George Washington prayed for our troops at Valley Forge and that, you know, Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration were endowed by our Creator, God?
I thought I would see so many Americans rooting for us to do poorly, rooting for Iran, cheering in Times Square for the Ayatollah and saying that God bless anybody is a negative thing.
I mean, I got to tell you something.
It's time for America to have a reality check.
We are a Jejeo Christian nation.
Period.
End of sentence.
Yesterday, we exposed how this guy, Joe Kent, had a very different position just a short time ago as it relates to Iran.
What happened to him, I don't know.
I think there's something deeper in this story that may eventually evolve.
As a matter of fact, I'm being told by sources that there is a deeper story here and that this might have been preemptive on his part for a specific reason, but I've not been able to confirm it yet, so we'll hold back on what I know.
The CIA director John Ratcliffe contradicted Joe Kent and others that say Iran posed no immediate threat.
And this is the big lie being pushed by people that either are isolationists or they don't really like Trump or they have an agenda or they're anti-Israel.
This was not an immediate threat.
The defining interview was on this show with Steve Witkoff.
460 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium.
If they are further enriched for seven to 10 days, they've got enough for 11 nuclear weapons.
That's it.
Ratcliffe said that he believes Iran has been a constant threat and posed an immediate threat at this time because he actually listened and looked at the intelligence that none of us have an opportunity to see.
Dan Bongino went nuts last night.
He was awesome.
And he just said, I saw it myself.
He's lying.
And I probably saw more than this guy.
By the way, Gavin Newsom's wife is saying, kind of like Teller Rico and the guy running for Senate in Texas, there's a lot to learn from same-sex couples.
Gender is on a spectrum.
Evangelicals and conservatives are holding the country back, but it won't work because people are woke.
Okay, that's really going to help him.
Raskin, Thomas Payne was an undocumented immigrant.
Jim Jordan, how was he an illegal immigrant?
He was born in the UK, came to America, then a British colony.
I didn't say he was illegal, he was undocumented.
You don't even know that part's true.
California spending $114 million on their unfinished wildlife crossing bridge.
Can't make this stuff up.
And why are these children of Iran's regime leaders that chant death to America still in this country?
I'd like to know.
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Hannity.
All right, when we come back, we'll check in with All Things Simple Man.
That means Bill O'Reilly.
Also, Tim Stewart, president of U.S. Oil and Gas, will give us an update on oil energy prices and how long he expects it to be high.