Sean Hannity and James Robbins argue military action against Iran is inevitable, citing 75% of targets destroyed and General Dan Caine's claim of over ten Iranian attacks on U.S. forces since the ceasefire. They propose arming the Iranian populace to overthrow the "death cult" regime, potentially seizing IRGC assets or striking Karg Island to cripple the economy. The episode concludes with Dan Bongino alleging hidden rooms at FBI headquarters contain unburned classified documents exposing corruption under Comey and Wray, while callers criticize security failures at recent high-profile events. [Automatically generated summary]
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Military Pressure on Iran00:13:32
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As it relates to where this conflict with Iran is going, I sense military action is now becoming inevitable.
I think the Iranians have taken the benevolence of Donald Trump as weakness, or at least that's their interpretation of it.
Plus, they're so crazy.
And radicalized that I just don't think they quite understand that they've had, you know, 75% of their military targets wiped out.
The other 25% are next, and maybe with it, their entire economy.
And it probably would take less than 15 minutes to do it all.
Now, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Kane, Raisin Kane, said earlier today since the start of the ceasefire, Iran has attacked the U.S. more than 10 times.
And that they are deliberately attacking their neighbors.
Okay, let me interpret this for you before you hear it.
That means they're about to get hit.
Listen.
Since the ceasefire was announced, Iran has fired at commercial vessels nine times and seized two container ships.
And they've attacked U.S. forces more than 10 times, all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point.
You can also see the group of tankers and cargo vessels in the U.S. blockade line, as I mentioned.
As a result of Iran's indiscriminate attacks across the region, there are currently 22,500 mariners embarked on more than 1,550 commercial vessels trapped in the Arabian Gulf, unable to transit.
In addition to shipping, Iran has continued to deliberately attack its neighbors.
Just yesterday, Iran attacked Oman once and the UAE three times, including an attack on Fujairah oil terminal, which was successfully defeated.
They also launched cruise missiles, drones, small boats at U.S. forces defending commercial shipping in the Straits.
And United States Navy MH 60 helicopters and Army AH 64 Apache helicopters successfully defeated those threats.
And the president also said when he was asked, Does Iran need, you know, what does Iran need to do to violate the ceasefire?
He says, They know what not to do.
Listen.
What do they need to do to.
Violate the ceasefire?
Well, you'll find out because I'll let you know.
They know what to do and they know what to do.
And they know what not to do, more importantly, actually.
And, you know, they fired them in little boats with pea shooters.
You know, the pea shooters, little boats with little, you know, why?
Because they don't have any boats anymore.
Their Navy is comprised of, they call them little boats.
And they're fast, yeah.
They're so fast that they had eight of them and they're all gone.
And, They're fast, but they're not fast like a missile.
A missile is slightly faster.
They're all gone.
So they're looking around for little boats to try and compete with our great Navy.
Now, one more cut of the president.
He was asked, you know, people in Iran want to protest, but they don't have guns.
This is a point I've been raising often.
It has been problematic to get guns in the hands of the Iranian people.
I know efforts are underway.
I don't know the extent of the success of those efforts, but I think that that's going to be a critical part for the Iranian people.
If they ultimately want to regain their once great culture, the Persian culture is phenomenal.
Anyway, here's how that went down.
You said recently that if Iran and Iranians were armed, they could take over their regime.
Do you plan to arm them soon?
Well, I don't want to say that, but yeah, I mean, people say, why aren't they protesting?
They want to protest, but they don't have any guns.
So you could have 200,000 people protesting and have five or six sick people with guns, and when they start shooting them right between the eyes, and you see a guy fall and another one fall, and you have no guns, very few people would be able to stand there.
All right, here to respond to all of this is James Robbins, former special assistant to Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and the Institute of World Politics Dean.
All right, well, let's get your take on it.
My take is okay, they pushed it far, they cling to their death cult, they underestimated President Trump before Midnight Hammer.
Okay, we know the result 14 bunker buster bombs.
Epic Fury has pretty much wiped out their entire military, and now they're in a power struggle.
We don't know who's really in charge.
However, there are enough people in charge that are making really dumb decisions that are pretty much going to force President Trump's hand, it's going to be blockade, embargo, plus more military strikes.
Your thoughts?
Well, Sean, yeah, I think so.
Before the 41 day military action, the president said the reason for that was Iran was getting too cute in the negotiations.
And he said something similar now, saying that they'll say one thing in public and one thing in private.
So, I think getting cute with Donald Trump is a mistake on their part.
These attacks, we don't know who's ordering them.
Is it the same people we're negotiating with?
Is it some other faction?
We don't know.
The Joint Chiefs Chairman said that it was just like small scale harassing attacks.
But beyond a certain point, if they're going to do that, I think that we're going to strike back, maybe start to hit the bridges and power plants, as the President said, maybe start to hit their oil infrastructure.
You know, Carg Island is just sitting there, and we can hit that pretty severely.
Well, I mean, that's a question that I have, and this came up a lot on TV last night.
If we hit Karg Island, now there are two strategies that have emerged, and I guess it's probably an internal discussion as well.
I mean, do we take over Karg Island?
If we do that, then that means our military presence would have to remain longer than I think the president would like, or you just wipe it out.
But if you wipe it out, that's 90% of their economy, and that means the Iranian people, some 90 million plus people, Won't have an economy to rebuild, at least for another decade?
Well, you know, Karg Island doesn't have any intrinsic value to us.
I think if we occupied it, we would just be setting up a target.
Every drone in Iran would suddenly be aimed at that place.
And I don't think that it's worth, you know, one dead Marine to take Karg Island.
If we're going to do something to it, we should just bomb it.
If yes, it would mean highly disrupting their economy, which is kind of disrupted anyway.
I mean, they've got hyperinflation, they can't export anything.
They're in.
In dire straits.
If it means rebuilding, fine.
But it could finally pressure them to either make a deal with us or get the revolution done.
But I mean, if the choice is between bombing it or occupying it, the result would be the same either way, except if you occupy it, you're creating a really difficult military situation.
So I would just go for the air power solution.
Well, the air power seems to have been the most effective.
If I had my way, my druthers, what I would be looking for, I mean, we've pretty much wiped out three tiers of leadership.
And it seems that the most extreme element remains with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces or Guard Corps, whichever you prefer, the IRGC.
So, my question is should we be looking to take them out, hoping that more moderate voices might emerge, people that maybe are looking at all the other dead leaders before them, thinking, well, I don't want to be next?
I don't think you're going to get any moderates out of this regime.
I think it's.
If there were any moderates, they were purged a long time ago.
But you might get some people who are more pragmatic, who don't want to die.
I think that's really the key.
If the people there right now want to be martyrs, I think that we can accommodate them, let that happen, and try to find some people who don't want to be martyrs.
But the key is that military force isn't the only thing that we have going for us.
Obviously, we're putting on economic pressure.
There's a diplomatic track, which who knows, maybe they'll finally wake up to that.
There's probably some kind of intelligence activity going on.
There are a lot of ways we're putting pressure on this regime and kind of waiting for it to collapse.
If we do go to a military option, then yes, definitely.
We should add some regime targets to that and just try to get some better decision makers in there.
I don't know if it's going to happen anytime soon, but another limited strike, it might get their attention.
All right.
What about the idea of arming the Iranian people?
I know that there have been attempts.
My understanding is my sources have told me.
That they attempted to work through the Kurds, but the Kurds were stealing 90% of the weapons.
Yeah, it's too bad if they're doing that since we've been really good friends to the Kurds.
So, you know, they probably shouldn't do that.
That's a big mistake on their part.
I think that it's.
Well, there's so much honesty in that part of the world.
I mean, you're really surprised.
Yeah, you know, we do what we can do, I guess, with the partners that we have.
But one way I think would be to encourage army units, like the regular army, not the IRGC, but just the regular Iranian military force.
Are you talking about the Quds forces or just regular army?
No, like just the regular army, like the draftees and the officers who aren't part of the IRGC, but just like the regular part of the army.
I mean, this is how the coup happened under Mossadegh.
Get those guys to defect.
They have weapons.
And if they can be convinced that the future of Iran is not this totalitarian theocracy, but restoring kind of national pride in Persian culture.
Maybe those are the kind of people that we can get to do something.
Also, if we're seizing the accounts of the IRGC, you know, the private accounts that they have in the West to underwrite the lavish lifestyles of their kids, you know, living in the U.S. or Britain or France, if we can start seizing those accounts and then use that money to buy the arms and underwrite the revolution, I think that would serve two purposes.
One, it would get the attention of those leaders whose fortunes are suddenly vanishing.
And secondly, it would give us the money we need to help underwrite this thing.
Now, the blockade has been tremendously affected by every objective measure.
And according to Scott Pesson, the Treasury Secretary, he's claiming and saying that the Iranians no longer really have any storage capability, which means they're a week, two weeks, maybe three weeks out of having to cap their oil producing wells, which, if they ever reopen them, at best they could hope for maybe 50% of the capacity that they currently are producing.
I'm just not an expert in the field of oil production, but apparently, when you cap a well, you never get back to where you were.
That's my understanding.
The president's talked about it, Scott Besson has talked extensively about it.
So that moment seems to be coming.
You would think, just from a purely practical standpoint, that they would understand that that's not a good situation for them, their economy, their ability to stay in power.
I mean, when you have a currency that's worth zero, you have a 200% inflation rate, you have half the workforce not working, and really you have shortages of food and other bare necessities.
At some point, this is going to boil over, is it not?
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, that's a strategy to increase these types of pressure, particularly on the economic side, until they decide it's just not worth it anymore.
I think when you have ideologically driven people, they tend to take on suffering a little better.
Also, there's the question of if the people suffer, it doesn't mean that the elites are suffering.
I mean, they may not really care.
I mean, this is a group that would kill 40,000 of their own people.
Yeah, but there is a report that they're not even able to pay the IRGC at this point.
Right.
So, see, this is when we get to the inflection point, when those people start going home and they say it's not worth it anymore.
When even IRGC people start saying, what are we fighting for anyway?
We could just make peace with the Americans and have a future of prosperity, maybe have a little more political freedom.
I think we're kind of reaching that point.
It may take a little bit more encouragement using military means, whether it's taking out their gasoline refineries, which would really cripple their economy, or, you know, we mentioned the oil option.
Could be some other options in there, but just to really get their attention because I think they think that Donald Trump is in a political crisis, that the Western economies are collapsing, or whatever else they hear from mainstream media.
I think they think we're under pressure and all they need to do is hold out.
Exposing Mainstream Lies00:02:21
Yeah, it's going to be interesting to wait, watch, and see.
But certainly the economic pressure is very real.
You know, the biggest problem we have is this is a death cult, and when people are indoctrinated into a death cult and they believe That they're dying for a cause, and that by dying for that cause, they get rewarded in paradise with 72 virgins.
It's kind of hard to break a lifetime of indoctrination, in my view.
So, anyway, we really appreciate you, James Robbins.
Thanks so much for being with us.
Thanks, Sean.
My pleasure.
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I think this might have been between the podcast I did with Dan Bongino, followed up by the one we just dropped this morning with Kash Patel, might be the most enlightening in terms of exposing.
Just how politicized and weaponized our FBI, not all rank and file people, that it became under Comey and Director Wray.
FBI Burn Bags Scandal00:05:35
And I had hoped under Director Wray that he would restore the FBI to its former greatness.
Unfortunately, he didn't do that.
And one of the most amazing things to come out of both of them, and again, if you just go to like YouTube, wherever you get your video podcast, you know, Apple, Spotify, wherever you watch it.
You know, you just type in hang out with Sean Hannity and you can see both of them.
But we just dropped the Kash Patel one, the FBI director today.
And Dan Bongino, I don't know if you saw this, Linda.
Bongino said to me, and it shocked me, he felt, and then I got clarification from Cash, he felt that there were honest, good, rank and file agents that were given burn bags, which is classified information to be destroyed.
And they purposefully put it in a place.
It turns out.
I mean, a lot of people in their homes have a safe room.
This was a room that they didn't even know existed.
And Dan believes that they did it on purpose, that they left a trail of crumbs in the hopes that new people would find it and get to the bottom of the corruption within the FBI.
And then Kash Patel, and I'll play this here, talked about this burn bag room that nobody knew even existed.
I mean, if you have a safe room in your home, it should be a room that.
You can get into, and that if somebody broke into your home and they were looking for you, they can't get to you.
Imagine that room.
Well, apparently there was one such room, and this is Cash talking about it.
So, what we did was when we walked in the door, I said, Hey, this conspiracy continued.
It didn't end because the documents we released under the House Intel days showed that there were individuals who are continuing the work of the Steele dossier.
Documents, computer hard drives have to exist somewhere.
And this is the part that's frustrating to me, too.
People are saying, rightfully so, where's the accountability?
Where are the arrests?
We are undoing 30 years of weaponization.
We are doing that while delivering record results on crime reduction in America.
And we got to get it right.
So we found that room that Dan Bongino talks about burn bags.
Explain a burn bag.
It's basically a large paper bag that you use to destroy and literally shred and burn classified information.
So, we not only found burn bags in a room that was locked away in FBI headquarters.
And they weren't burned.
They weren't burned, but the room was also off the map.
It wasn't on our blueprint.
And nobody had access to it.
So, how'd you find it?
Well, that's what we do.
That's what I do.
I know that these people put it in places for us to never find.
I mean, Linda, I just can't believe it.
Now, first of all, I'm grateful.
I'm grateful to the rank and file guys that purposely saved this evidence.
For people like Cash and Dan.
And these are wonderful patriots.
And, you know, it's amazing to me that there are people that supposedly are on our side that have no idea what they walked into and what they inherited in terms of the country was not safe, especially after Biden, Harris, Mayorkas, 12 plus million unvetted illegals, known terrorists, murderers, rapists, child molesters, other violent criminals, cartel members, gang members.
They had to put those fires out, and everyone's saying, well, where are the RFK and JFK files?
And I'm like, you know, they're trying to save our life first.
But now they're investigating a grand conspiracy.
And both of them have basically validated, vindicated as if we needed it again, all of our coverage about the deep state and this grand conspiracy to get Donald Trump.
It's not made up.
It's not fake.
It's all real.
And hopefully there'll be accountability.
I mean, don't you find that breathtaking?
No, I think everybody lies.
I think every single one of our agencies is corrupt.
I think that the bad far outweigh the good, whether it's the CIA, the FBI, the NSA.
Everything I saw from Christopher Wray, from all of the things that happened with Strzok and Page, nobody goes to jail.
Nobody is ever held accountable.
Until somebody goes to jail, it's just noise.
Well, it's noise, but I mean, at least there were honest people that were smart enough, wise enough, and cared enough to understand that what was happening was just fundamentally wrong.
Yeah, but they didn't walk it over, they left it in a room nobody knew about.
Because if they did it with Comey as the FBI director or Ray as the FBI director, it would have been destroyed.
Yeah, but they could have walked it out.
They could have taken it somewhere.
It could have been released.
These guys are supposed to be.
They could have walked it out.
Why can't they?
Why can't they?
Why can't it find its way?
So many other things find their way.
For example, if you try to take something, if you're in the Fox News building or where our radio building was in New York back in the day, and you try to take out a box, security stops you.
No question about it, but.
You could take a piece of paper out and you could say, Hey, this is endangering the nation.
Stuff is really scary.
I've got to take a risk.
They're going to take the piece of paper, but these are bags.
I mean, massive amount of classified information, which, by the way, would be illegal to take it out of that room.
Funeral Home Secrets00:02:51
Sure.
You know, illegal is a very sick bird.
It's no longer a thing.
Everything's illegal, Sean.
These people are corrupt to the core.
You've got to do something big.
They're going to let Sandy Burger shove it down their pants in their car.
Yeah, for our side of the aisle, for the good of the nation.
Absolutely.
I'm sure our founding fathers had many things to do.
I think the fact that they saved it and put it in a safe room that nobody knew about and everybody thought this stuff was destroyed is pretty spectacular to me.
I think they're heroes for doing that.
All right.
All right.
Let's get to our phones.
Let's see.
Boston Pete.
I don't know what Boston Pete means in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
What's up, Boston Pete?
Hey, Sean.
I've been listening to conservative talk shows for more years than I care to say.
Even the great Rush Limbaugh never.
Managed a segue like you did this afternoon.
You take a caller who called genuinely concerned about your safety in China and your potential death.
You segue from that call to a call about Irish Catholic Wake.
I've never seen anything like that in my life.
Well, I mean, you know, we're kind of this is the power of live radio.
I mean, you never know what's coming your way, you just never know.
That's what makes it unique and fun, right?
Well, do you know the difference between Irish Wake and Irish Wedding?
No, I do not.
At an Irish wake, there's one less drunk.
And after your show yesterday, I actually called my living siblings.
I'm the baby of seven Irish Catholic family.
And I was describing how you described the wakes.
And we've been going to wakes since we were little kids, very big family, aunts, uncles, everything.
And it's exactly the way you described it.
The funeral home downtown Danvers, which is the town I grew up in, you walk in, the room on the right is where the castle is going to be.
The family is going to be standing next to it.
Everybody goes through the line and then splits into one of three rooms.
The guys are all in one room with a bottle of Jameson, and everybody's got a shot glass.
The ladies are in the room.
It's so true.
And then the children are all in the back room wondering what's going on in the other two rooms and wishing we were old enough to be there.
And we just laughed hysterically over that.
You brought a lot of joy to the Helen family.
Oh, and then you got the group of people that are wailing.
And then you got the weirdos that are touching the dead body and, oh, creeps are kissing the dead body.
I'm like, oh, you're creeping me out.
Stop.
And people that wouldn't kiss him when he was alive, but now they don't.
Yeah, that's probably true too.
Unreal.
Thank you.
You brought a lot of laughter to the family last night.
My advice everybody put in their will, closed casket.
I don't want to see your dead body.
Well, all right, Boston Pete.
Linda, if you go before me, please put in your will, closed casket.
Family Makeup Stories00:05:19
What do you want me to do?
Put it closed casket.
Why don't you look at my face?
What do you want me?
I'll go right up to you.
You want me to hold your hand and start?
I'm going to look good in my casket.
I'm not worried about it.
It's going to be fantastic.
You're going to look good dead.
That's what you're telling me.
I'm going to look amazing dead.
I'm going to make sure that I have a professional makeup artist.
I'm going to hire them before I die.
Nobody has a professional makeup artist when they're dead.
Who the hell has a professional makeup artist?
No, they don't.
They have an embalmer.
Every home has a professional makeup artist.
Let me tell you something.
My father was a funeral embalmer.
Okay.
So I know a little bit about this business more than the average bear.
And my father, God bless him, was not a makeup artist.
He was a funeral embalmer and he was a dude.
And then he was like, I got to bring somebody in.
I don't know what I'm doing.
So what I'm telling you is, unless the person.
That's what every funeral home does.
They bring in a person.
No, they don't.
They don't.
They have a person.
You just make stuff up.
Every single one.
Oh my God, they do not.
Have you ever seen a body without makeup on it?
I have.
I have several.
Well, that's creepy.
Well, I just told you my father was a funeral embalmer when I was a kid for a hot minute.
He worked there for like two, three years.
I'm just telling you, I know more than you about this particular issue.
Okay.
About embalming, nothing about makeup.
Let's get to our busy phones.
Let us say hi to George in Maryland.
Hey, George, how are you?
Hey, Sean, how are you?
First time.
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Long time listener, first time caller back in the days with Holmes and Combs.
Oh, thank you.
Hey, Sean.
So I was a retired Secret Service agent, military, for 27 years.
Wow.
Thank you for your service.
Thanks, Sean.
And, Sean, you know, it's great that you're bringing out mishaps that have been happening, you know, all too often, regardless from administration to administration.
By the way, Sean.
I met you back in, I think it was 2000 or 2004 when you were at the RNC in Minnesota when you were getting ready to do a live set.
And you had the makeup artist there, you know, prepping you up, by the way.
And you told me specifically, hey, you guys do a great job.
I'll never forget that time.
But anyway, Sean, getting back to my point.
Sean, these mishaps occur for a reason there's a lack of resources and there's a lack of training.
When I was on the job, Granted, we would qualify twice a year, but then it was downgraded to once a year, maybe 30 minutes.
And this is just the average rank and file agent, you know, that, you know, is supposed to, you know, be proficient in firearms.
But the specialty units like Kane, okay.
Why are you breaking up on me?
Oh, I hate that.
I wanted to hear what he had to say.
Luke in Wisconsin.
Luke, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
We got about a minute, Luke.
Yeah, thanks, Sean.
I would love to talk to your last caller because my concern is the mishap with the White House Correspondence Dinner was such a blatant failure in security.
They had an unsecured door yards from the checkpoint.
And I'm not even trained in security, and I know that's a vulnerability.
They didn't control the foot traffic, they allowed Whole island just wander into that room.
I really think Trump needs to take a look at Curran because Curran lauded the performance of those people there.
But those people overlooked very basic security things, and I think someone needs to take accountability for that.
Listen, I have outlined in great specificity and detail the problems that we experienced in Butler in terms of the perimeter was not the proper distance, there aren't enough perimeters.
And what I described as a sweeping problem that existed in Butler.
How does a guy with a rifle get on the property or get near the property with a ladder and climb on a roof?
How did we not sweep the area around Trump International, a known area where paparazzi congregate and you have a clean shot at the president?
And the same thing here.
And I'm sorry, I know some people have gotten annoyed at me because they've let me know they're annoyed that I've pointed out these problems.
But if we keep making the same mistake, we're going to end up with somebody dead.
And we can't do this anymore.
It's got to stop.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
A great Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
We will cover part of the Secretary of State's press conference today.
I mean, he took over for Caroline Levitch.
He just had her new baby.
Bob Harwood, former deputy commander for U.S. Central Command.
Brett Volokovich is going to be with us.
Byron Donalds, Victor Davis Hansen, Brett Baer, Tommy Laren.