The Imminent Threat
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 2 of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean sits down with Senator Lindsey Graham to unpack the intelligence behind Operation Epic Fury and the urgent threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program. Hannity revisits the negotiations led by Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, revealing how Iranian officials openly boasted about stockpiles of highly enriched uranium that could quickly be turned into multiple nuclear weapons. Senator Graham explains why the Trump administration believed decisive action was necessary and why, in his view, the strikes prevented Iran from becoming a nuclear power within weeks. The conversation explores the broader strategy behind the Trump Doctrine—peace through strength combined with rapid, targeted military action rather than prolonged wars. Hannity and Graham also discuss the geopolitical implications, including the possibility that weakening Iran could open the door to historic peace agreements in the Middle East. It’s a high-stakes discussion about national security, deterrence, and the future stability of the region.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hour to Sean Hannity's show, |
| 0:06.1 | toll-free. |
| 0:06.8 | It is 800. |
| 0:07.8 | 941. |
| 0:08.5 | Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, |
| 0:10.0 | Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, |
| 0:12.5 | will join us in a minute. |
| 0:13.7 | So, you know, big splash, |
| 0:15.5 | media following this like it's big news. |
| 0:17.5 | There has never been, as I just laid out, |
| 0:20.4 | a more successful military effort |
| 0:23.7 | in the history of warfare. And Donald Trump has combined three lessons of history, really four in a way, |
| 0:30.8 | but he learned the lesson from Reagan, peace through strength. He also learned from the last century |
| 0:36.6 | that if you let emerging threats |
| 0:39.3 | develop, you wait too long, you risk mass death. Over 100 million people in the last century |
| 0:46.0 | dying because of some is, China, Stalin, Russia, Mao, Hitler, Germany, fascism, Italy, |
| 0:54.0 | Tojo, Japan, Pol Potont, the Killingfield. |
| 0:56.2 | So he's applying that. |
| 0:57.7 | He's also developed his own doctrine, the Trump doctrine, which wiped out ISIS and Soleimani |
| 1:03.5 | and Baghdadi and dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, took out the Iranian nuclear |
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