Iran In A Vice Grip
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In the final hour, Sean Hannity continues his focus on Iran and speaks with Ambassador Nathan Sales about the U.S. Navy escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz, the risks of Iranian retaliation, and the leverage created by economic pressure. Sales explains that Iran’s divided leadership, shrinking oil revenue, and weakening economy could force the regime toward negotiation, but he warns that the situation remains fluid and dangerous. Hannity also takes listener calls on energy prices, Iranian resistance, and whether the Iranian people can realistically challenge the regime. Later, the hour shifts to domestic politics, with Hannity criticizing wealth taxes, high-tax states, New York leadership, Seattle’s political direction, and the continued migration of wealthy individuals and businesses to Florida.
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| 0:13.2 | All right. |
| 0:13.5 | The president now is taking the events in Iran to the next level. |
| 0:19.3 | The U.S. Navy escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:23.9 | Is it risky? Yes. Do I think the president's plan B is to obliterate them? I do. |
| 0:29.3 | Will the Iranians fall into the trap? We'll see. Only time will tell. But as the president |
| 0:36.0 | rightly has been saying, the Iranians are fighting themselves |
| 0:40.0 | more than they're fighting anybody else. And there has not been one group of leadership |
| 0:45.3 | to emerge to actually have a real negotiation with. Here's what he said. We're doing everything |
| 0:50.2 | in terms of negotiate right now, in terms of the negotiation telephonically. |
| 0:57.3 | They've made strides, but I'm not sure if they ever get there. |
| 1:03.7 | There's tremendous discord. |
| 1:06.0 | There's tremendous, they're having a tremendous problem getting along with each other in Iran. |
| 1:10.8 | The leadership is very disjointed. |
| 1:13.3 | It's got two to three groups, maybe four, and it's a very disjointed leadership. |
| 1:19.0 | And with that being said, they all want to make a deal, but they're all messed up. |
| 1:23.6 | It's pretty messed up. |
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