Pope, Pressure, and Persia
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sean Hannity opens the hour with a sharp update on the Iran standoff, arguing that the U.S. blockade is giving Tehran a preview of what permanent economic collapse would look like if it refuses President Trump’s terms. He also launches into a fiery critique of Pope Leo and the Catholic Church’s silence on Iran’s human-rights abuses, terrorism, and anti-Israel violence, while condemning what he sees as selective moral outrage from the West. This episode centers on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, nuclear pressure, and the growing clash between Trump’s strategy and global religious and political critics.
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| 0:08.8 | If you want to be a part of the program, it is 800-94-1-1-Shan. |
| 0:13.2 | If you want to join us, we're going to spend some time on the situation in Iran. |
| 0:19.7 | Iranian insiders now fear that the economic destruction, |
| 0:24.1 | I'm calling it a preview of coming attractions. |
| 0:26.6 | If the Iranians don't sign on to the deal, |
| 0:29.6 | and it's getting, you know, this is their time of choosing. |
| 0:34.1 | And I think the president is showing great restraint |
| 0:36.5 | because the president is giving him, |
| 0:39.1 | giving them the preview of coming attractions. |
| 0:41.3 | They will have no economy if the president blows up their oil infrastructure. |
| 0:47.4 | And right now with the blockade, which is a tremendously effective, even China turning around, |
| 0:53.5 | a big tanker that they had filled up yesterday, everybody now abiding by the blockade. |
| 1:00.4 | And now the blockade has even expanded out. |
| 1:02.8 | They've expanded, you know, beyond the street of Hormuz. |
| 1:07.4 | And it's now encompassing the entire Iranian coast. And Iranian insiders fear the |
| 1:14.0 | economic destruction being caused by the U.S. Israeli bombing and the blockade could now topple |
| 1:21.3 | the entire regime, as many as 12 million jobs, nearly half of Iran's workforce, are now at risk of being furloughed or laid off. |
| 1:30.6 | What does that mean? |
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