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Iran On The Brink

Apr 07, 202629 min
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Sean Hannity opens the hour with a forceful breakdown of why the Iran confrontation reached a critical moment, arguing that the military action was necessary to stop a nuclear-armed regime before it crossed the point of no return. He frames the conflict around newly emphasized threats, including enriched uranium, ballistic missile reach, and the broader danger posed by a regime he describes as the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.

The hour also centers on the dramatic rescue of two American pilots deep inside enemy territory, with Hannity spotlighting the precision, courage, and professionalism of the U.S. military. From the planning and deception tactics to the message that no American will be left behind, this episode blends breaking geopolitical stakes with a patriotic tribute to the men and women who carried out one of the most daring recovery missions in recent memory.

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All of you for being with us. Right down are toll free telephone number if you want to be a part of the program. It's eight hundred and ninety four

one sean if you want to join us. There are certain moments in time when you look at the United States Military and it just you well up with a sense of gratitude and you are in just awe of how amazing these men and women in an all volunteer you know, armed forces are at any given moment, and you think of the history of the US and dealing with the Iranians, and it has not been a good one for the last forty seven years, you know, with the Ayatola Komane coming into power nineteen seventy nine and

Americans held hostage for four hundred and forty four days, and how stupid so many past presidents have been in trying to deal with this radical eye Islamo fascist regime that controls this place, and what they have done to once great people, the Persian people, and how they have so oppressed this country and driven them into poverty, and how much terror they have been fomenting around the world

and their terror proxies that they have been funding. And then you think of the utter stupidity of people like Barack Hussein Obama. You know, oh, look, let's just fly in cargo planes of cash and other currency and billions of dollars so that the Iranians can build out their nuclear capability, ballistic missile capability, and so on and so forth. And the result has been devastating for the region, and it has been becoming an existential threat to the entire world.

We'll get into the need for this entire operation in a second, although we've addressed it many times, But there are so many people that could not be any more wrong about the urgents of the President's actions here. And it's all I could tell you, had the President not acted expeditiously, that the odds of a nuclear armed Iran would have been that much greater. We once again, the world underestimated the Iranians capability in terms of the range

of their ballistic missiles. We now know they have ballistic missiles capable of being launched and that could hit countries like Great Britain and France and cities like Paris and London.

We did not know that before. As per usual, international globalist organizations underestimated what they had and so we have been engaged in this military effort because we learned from our Mid eastn voice, Steve Whitkoff, who was negotiating with the uraniums confirmation of that which we kind of already knew, which they had enough sixty percent enriched uranium that could be enriched to way eapens grade uranium with it in no less and no more than twelve days, which would

have given them enough uranium for eleven bombs. You couple that with their ballistic missile capability, and now you're looking at a nuclear armed Iran, you know, with a live with a converter di mentality and the number one state sponsor of terror. The fact that we have to convince some people that this was the right decision is a little bit difficult for me to comprehend because we do have a lot of stupid people. It's like a lot

of stupid people. I was watching melt down over the weekend because the President put out a controversial truth posting, and I'll get to that in a minute. But the moment that all of you heard, many of you heard Sunday morning, Easter morning, many of you heard Saturday night.

We got him. My fellow Americans. Over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue missions in US history for one of our incredible crew member officers, who also happens to be a highly respected colonel, who I am thrilled to let you now to know is now safe and sound.

His brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran, being hunted down by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his Commander in Chief, Secretary of War, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and fellow war fighters were monitoring his location twenty four hours a day, diligently planning for his rescue. At my direction, the US military sent dozens of aircraft armed with the most lethal weapons in

the world to retrieve him. He did sustain injuries, but he will be fined. The miraculous search and rescue operation comes in addition to a successful rescue of another brave pilot yesterday, which we did not confirm because we did not want to jeopardize our second rescue operation. This is the first time in military memory that two US pilots have been rescued separately deep within enemy territory. We will

never leave an American war fighter behind. The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations without a single American killed or even wounded, just proves once again that we have achieved overwhelming air dominance and superiority over the Iranian skies. This is a moment for all Americans, Republican, Democrat, everyone else that they should be proud of all of the United States and all our brave fighters. We truly have the best, most professional, lethal

military in the history of the world. God bless America, God bless our troops. Happy Easter to all. I don't know why people doubt our military might. I'm not really sure. We are at a very critical, crucial point in how this is going to go down. A lot of people don't know. When a US aircraft goes down in a war zone, the response is anything but completely anticipated, choreographed tightly, and and it is something that they practice from day one.

And what is the highest, you know, the most sensitive technology. You know, we want to keep that out of enemy hands, deny our adversaries, intelligence propaganda wins. The military has a clear playbook. But when these situations arise there it is it is factored into any military mission. Because we're dealing

with mechanical equipment. Things can go wrong. Our people are important and anyway, so if a pilot, like in this case, two pilots ejecting and they survive, they are trained to evade capture using survival techniques that are drilled into them before they are ever deployed. Concealment, communication with friendly forces,

movement to avoid detection. Military commanders prepare, they plan, they execute recovery operations long in advance of them ever engaging in any military activity, and ensure that these individuals are trained to contend with any event unforeseeable event and capable of recovering personnel and staff to react quickly to whatever

situation just happens to arise. You know, elite units like you know Air Force, you know power rescue, Navy seals, Army special ops teams are are they know they're going to be dispatched. They're often escorted by helicopters, fighter jets, et cetera. In some cases, drone satellite surveillance aircraft are used and they monitor and track the pilot's position and they were able to do this with perfection. It is something that is practiced over and over and over again.

And the goal is to prevent a sensitive equipment radar weapons technolo from falling in enemy hands. But more importantly, it is to make sure that we don't leave Americans behind and when a crash site, the military may destroy the records from the air. They ended up doing that and this this effort for a number of different reasons

that came on board at the time. Now, when you look at the details of this, it is spectacular, and the President went into great detail today and we'll play some of it as the as the show on folds throughout the day to day, and all of it is incredible. All of it is. You know, we had over one hundred men, you know, the US rescued this this f fifteen airmen. It was deep inside enemy territory. They had

Sealed Team six, one of the they had. John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, described the CIA ruse to divert their attention. They constructed a forward air strip in hostile territory. They had patrols, they create a perimeter. They were using you know, drones all over the region. As it means they knew exactly the location of this fighter pilot. I'll get to that in a second. But the officer shot down on Good Friday, this was southwestern Iran. Hid in the mountains.

He managed to climb a seven thousand foot ridge. My understanding is get inside a little crevice inside of a mountain, knowing that the Iranians had every belief that he was alive because they found the ejection seat and they found a pilot there. But he was able to climb this seven thousand foot ridge, And in an effort to confuse the Iranians, they put a sixty thousand dollars bounty, which is more times more than ten times the average household income in Iran, So that was a great incentive for

people on the officer's head. The CIA pulled off a diversion Saturday, planting fake intel that he had already been rescued and was being driven out of Iran, according to The Times, to push them off at their attention in another area. The operation involves landing multiple transport aircraft inside of Iranian territory. Deep inside that territory, the US Air Force landing strip was set up close to the city, and they started out with and this is another amazing

part of it, because they have contingency plans. And I talked to people familiar with the mission. It's been now widely reported. I'm not reporting anything that's not now in the in the out in the public. They had these two massive C one thirties that ended up, you know, coming in. They ended up actually sort of like having problems when that was on the ground, But immediately they dispatched not one, not two, but three backup transport planes that were in place ready to take off in case

as a contingency, in case they had a problem. They didn't have to you know, last minute, you know, scramble these planes as a backup in case something happened. I mean, pretty amazing stuff. And I mean this is like, I don't know, Jason Bourne, mission impossible, you name it, James bond All loaded up in one. They had a total

of four helicopters night stalkers. According to a report in the war zone, it's believed the Iranians were fired upon from the air in other words, as they created a perimeter and anyway, they were able to send in these backup aircraft to go in and get the rescue teams and get this pilot that had been injured during the ejection, and the US Air Force used multiple bombs, blowing up all the aircraft that they ended up abandoning, you know, just to get the hell out of there, which is

standard operating procedure, and the US suffered no casualties. And US Special Ops commandos also engaged in skirmishes apparently as well, and then the President was able to say, we got them. It is a lesson and it is a moment for this country to just, you know, take a moment and be proud, be proud of the fact that we have brave men and women that are willing to risk their

lives to protect one another and to protect us. There is still a grave misunderstanding out there, and I think it's purposeful and the part of people that have agendas. The saddest part in all of this is you don't

hear from the left. You don't hear from the crazy Democrats, you don't hear from the radical left, you don't hear from the isolationist wing all over the place that you know, if they had their way, Iran would have nuclear weapons and would hold the world and our children and grandchildren hostage. Now you can be convinced of. And that is the whole reason that the President made this very quick decision for Operation Epic Fury. To begin with, it's the sixty

percent enriched uranium. Now, according to the President, they are in the middle of negotiations with a deadline of tomorrow, with the promise that the President's going to blow up their bridges and blow up their infrastructure and their power plans and blow them into the Stone Age if they do not go along with this deal. And I'll get to the actual verbiage of it in a second. And the reason that the President is pushing this point and this is a very simple choice for the Iranians. Now,

they had an opportunity for peace before midnight Hammered. They did not take that opportunity. The same thing with Epic Fury. They were given time, and the President would have preferred, he said it repeatedly, he would prefer to have peace. But when you're dealing with Islamo fascists that believe in convert or die, the number one state sponsor of terror, it's very hard to negotiate with radicalized people like this,

indoctrinated people like this. Now, the one benefit that we have the president believes this next tier of leadership, the fourth or fifthier, is being more reasonable. But if they don't agree to open the straight of horror moves, if they don't agree how to turn over the uranium, not if they will turn over the enriched uranium, then the president will follow through on his promise. And you would think that they might have learned something about Donald Trump

and his promises at this point. Do you think they might have learned that they've been They've been decimated. They're army, their navy pretty much, their ballistic missile systems, they're nuclear systems. Fourteen bunker buster bombs. How many more lessons you know, do you have to teach one regime before they come to some level of understanding of what they're dealing with. Anyway,

I hope that they choose the peaceful option. Be better for the world, better for our country, better for everything. But you know what, they just can't be permitted to have a nuclear weapon. We went over why this was needed at this time, this conflict with Iran. We're now neutralizing the number one state sponsor of terror. We are preventing them from ever getting a nuclear weapon. While we

had an opportunity. And I've explained in detail how this president learned the lessons of Reagan peace through strength, the lessons of history the last century, one hundred million dead souls in the name of some Isam that could have been taken out earlier that was not. And he also learned the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan. And you know, I mean, I'm listening to people out there that are now trying to claim that this war is illegal. As Martin Goury put in the New York Post, wars are

not subject to laws or court hearings. Institutions that to pretend to be otherwise, like these globalist institutions like the UN and the International Court of Justice, which we don't recognize have existed, they have historically been anti Semitic and anti American. A war is either just or unjust, he makes a great point, and this is determined by the circumstances of the conflict and the moral valiance of combatants.

The circumstances of this present conflict are straightforward death to America, number one state sponsor of terror. And you know, I just I don't even know why this is even a question for some people, but it is what it is.

And I think that history will be very kind to the President's foresight wisdom to neutralize what was a growing, clear present danger to the world and to the United States before it became more powerful and before it became a nuclear armed A couple you marry nuclear, you know, capability with radical Islamism, and you've got yourself a formula for a potential modern day holocaust. It's that simple, not complicated.

You know, if you watch Donald Trump sixty seconds. I don't know why this is hard, you know for people to really understand ow the straits of horn moves and the sixty percent enriched uranium. They remain the final pieces of this puzzle, and we're going to find out in fairly short order. You know, we might know by the time we get on this program tomorrow. We might know by the end of this program today. I don't know.

And that is whether or not the President is able to successfully negotiate terms with this remaining tier of quote leadership. By the way, well nobody was paying attention, you know, while Field Team six and all these other heroes were rescuing this wounded airmen in the US warplanes were dropping a bunker buster bomb on the Ranium Revolutionary Guard headquarters, taking out more of their top leadership. We just don't stop. We're pounding them and to the point where they are

now not capable of fighting any war. I mean, even Prime Minister nat Yaho said that this existential threat that was Iran is not currently an existential threat even to Israel, which is in the air, which is in the region. By the way, the President did acknowledge today that they are trying to funnel weapons to the Iranian protesters. I hope that is successful, because you can't win revolutions without slingshots. But the President was also clear regime change was not

our main goal. Our main goal was to make sure we don't have a nuclear armed Iran, and the President is proving successful in that effort. The President says that they're getting close. The President also said today that he vowed to prosecute the leaker who blabbed the news that a second airman was missing in Iraq in Iran rather apparently, I'm not sure which news organization. Linda's telling me she believes it was CBS through and also the BBC, and

they have a relationship. But I want to see what happened because you know, news organizations often pick up on a lot of stuff that they can't in good consciences. They love their country and care about men and women in harm's way, you just don't do it. Let me get to this issue of President Trump and his tweet. The tweet because people woke up on Easter Sunday morning

and they were shocked, Linda, they were just shocked. Donald Trump has been saying controversial things ever since he announced he's running for president, and he came down that escalator at Trump Tower. I don't know why at this point in time people act shocked. I think it's fanned. I think it's bony. I think it is that they don't want to understand Donald Trump. He said Tuesday, meaning tomorrow will be power plant Day and bridge Day, all wrapped up in Won. They will be nothing like it. Open

the blanking straits. You crazy. I can say, bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just watch Praise be to Allah. That's what he said. Now, he says this as Steve Whitcoff, Jared Kushner, and Marco Rubio reportedly or all negotiating with whatever Iranian regime exists. In other words, went out with the fourth or fifthier of leadership. Now, why did the president do this? Why? I know it's not conventional. Is there anything about Donald Trump that's conventional? Really? Is there

anything that really surprises you? How many presidents are like Donald Trump? We'll never see another one like him, I don't think in our lifetime. And the fact that people don't understand him at this late after having all these years, if they had any sense of objectivity and any desire to understand him, you would understand him. Now, what is he doing? It's what I say he always does. He's in a perpetual state of new negotiation. He wants an answer,

and the answer is is this new Iranian leadership? Are they really more reasonable or not? And he is putting them to the test. Now I can tell you what he wants is the outcome. He would want the Iranians to end this war peacefully. This is about pushing for peace, not for more war. We've proven we can destroy them, We've proven that we can obliterate them, and he wants the Iranians to choose peace. But he also knows the mindset of these Iranians, especially in some level of leadership.

Convert or die Number one state sponsor of terror. Wipe Israel off the map, Wipe America off the map. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's being purposely provocative. He wants them to know. Number one, he will do it. Number Two, he's crazy. If your enemy thinks that you're willing to do it, that these are not idle words that are being spoken by somebody like Obama and Biden. There's a lot of power behind that. If there is

any chance of any deal. This is the President drawing his line in the sand, and he's speaking the only language that lunatics like this will understand. People. You know, the reports that they're actually arming children in case America ever hits the ground in Iran, they want young children to go fight their wars rather than the quote leadership, you know, putting weapons on themselves and going to fight wars.

You ever notice the leadership never strap bombs on themselves with the promise of seventy two virgins to go kill innocent men, women and children. They would get indoctrinated, you know, rich people to do that, but they themselves never do that. And he's speaking the only language they understand. I'm telling you right now, just like he didn't want to drop

fourteen bunker buster bombs before Midnight Hammer. He would have preferred a peace steal, just like he didn't want He would have preferred peace before Operation Epic Fury gave them every opportunity for peace. He is doing it now once again, except the first tier of leadership, the second tier of leadership, the third tier of leadership is now dead and gone, and he's hoping that maybe this next tier of leadership might take him seriously. The ball is going to be

in their court. It really, to use a very simple analogy, it's no different than a professional athlete, except the stakes are much higher. Obviously, you know, talking Adam Schiff to get a star player on the other team off their game, and he's playing chess, and the media and other countries are playing checker, and everybody else lives in fear. After eleven years of him being front and center on the world stage, you would think that they understand. And what

is this negotiation coming down to. If the Iranians want a deal, and we should know sometime tomorrow if there's going to be a deal, all the President wants is they must open the straight or horse moves immediately. The second thing that they're gonna have to agree to, not if they will hand over the sixty percent enriched uranium, how they will hand over the sixty percent enriched uranium. Now, if they agree to this oldtimatum, then hell will not rain down on Iran. It will not be bridge day,

it will not be infrastructure day. It will be Okay, Now, let's finish these negotiations and your country can survive day. That's what it's going to be. And I hope and I meet this. Maybe some people think I like whop No. I want to get our brave men and women out of arms way as quickly as possible while removing a potential threat down the road that we have a nuclear armed Iran Prime Minister nat Yakshu, who actually has declared

Iran no longer poses that existential threat to Israel. But he's also factoring in that the sixty percent of enrich uranium. It's either gonna come out. It's we could do it the easy way or we can do it the hard way. And that's that's where we now are. Now I'm gonna tell you something else. There's two other things that have pissed me off in all of this Number one, I have had it with Europe. Absolutely. They have chosen to disintegrates as individual countries and as a continent. They have

abandoned their commitment to national security and national defense. They have embraced radical social and climate alarmism, which is why they are so dependent on outside sources. They've they've bought into solar panels and climate change and all of this. It's cost them billions and billions and hundreds of billions of dollars. They've not committed themselves to securing their continent

or their individual countries. And when America just asked for a little bit of help and the President said it was a test to see if NATO would step up, they did not. So I would imagine when this is all said and done and resolved, and it will be resolved in a way that there won't be a nuclear

armed Oran or a nuclear threat of Iran. And that actually helps out oh cities like Paris in London because they have the ballistic missile range that we didn't think they had, and they can get to Paris and London with nuclear material if they had it, and they just they were a bunch of cowards. Neville Chamberlain juniors. They

learned nothing. We rebuilt Europe after World War Two and they have allowed unfettered illegal immigration and did not demand assimilation, which has resulted in nearly one hundred Sharia courts in Great Britain and no go zones and other parts of Europe, including France. And why they You know, it is fascinating as the world is getting away from radical Islam. Now, how interesting is it, Linda, that the daughter of the

top Iranian official Ali Larijani. Remember we talked about him when they took this guy out anyway, forced out of Emory University in Atlanta, set to be booted from the United States. And anyway, her late father was a top official in Tehran. Very evil guy. She worked as an

assistant professor at Emory. Anyway, Now it sparked backlash. Now did you see that the niece and grand niece of General Solomani arrested in Los Angeles after the Secretary of State Mark or Rubio terminated their permanent residence status and then ICE agents scooped them up. Apparently, I guess in Los Angeles routinely boasting on Instagram about attacks against the US, bashing US as the Great Satan Why would we be that stupid of a country to allow them into this country?

Did you see the pictures that the New York Post had of this young niece, this grand niece of Solomony? What for all to talk about? You know, love of Allah and you know the ayah tola? This I told a lot of these leaders, kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews. Boy, they all made their way to the US. What does that say about the US? It says we're a stupid country for allowing them

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