Tough on Iran
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
3.7 • 9.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sean examines harrowing reports from Iran's crackdown and conflicting accounts about executions, highlighting a post from Lindsey Graham after landing in Israel and ongoing calls for U.S. help. He speaks with Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen about alleged atrocities by the Revolutionary Guard, peace through strength, and how the Trump doctrine could shape a response. The discussion weighs isolationism versus targeted, no-boots-on-the-ground strikes and supporting Iranians seeking to choose their own leadership. Later, callers debate ICE tactics in Minneapolis as Sean underscores the scale of illegal immigration and an enforcement focus on criminal offenders amid inevitable imperfections. He also shares how a childhood obsession with radio sparked his career.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Right, thanks, Scott Shannon. |
| 0:05.6 | Hour 2, Sean Hannity's show, Toll Free this Friday. |
| 0:08.1 | It is 800. |
| 0:09.2 | 9.1, Sean, you want to be a part of the program. |
| 0:13.2 | The descriptions from people that have been coming out of Iran |
| 0:18.1 | in terms of the magnitude of a brutality and death and evil and the massacre |
| 0:26.1 | that has taken place there. I know the president says he was able to stop the executions. |
| 0:31.8 | There is conflicting reports as to whether or not the crackdown continues. |
| 0:40.9 | I saw that Lindsay Grand just put out an ex post. |
| 0:46.2 | I just landed in Israel, the one and only Jewish state, America's strongest ally and friends since its founding. |
| 0:56.4 | If you think I flew all the way to Israel after having not slept much in days to make sure that we do not hold the Ayatollah's murderous regime accountable for the slaughter of its own people, being the largest state sponsor of terrorism |
| 1:00.6 | with Americans' blood on its hands and who has an endless quest to cheat and obtain nuclear |
| 1:07.0 | weapons to advance their sick religious Nazi beliefs. |
| 1:10.7 | Then you've missed a lot. |
| 1:12.5 | I look forward to meeting with our Israeli allies and see how we can build up momentum |
| 1:16.7 | created by President Trump's bold, unprecedented leadership in Iran, where he picked the people |
| 1:22.1 | over the Ayatollah. The people are right to demand an end to this regime. We cannot allow this historic moment to pass. |
| 1:29.5 | And I agree with President Trump. |
| 1:30.8 | The downfall of the Ayatollah and the regime would be on par with the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| 1:36.9 | Remember, President Trump is not Obama. |
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