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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

Will Iran make a deal?

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Hugh discusses Iran and the partial government shutdown, and talks with Dr. Michael Oren, Bethany Mandel, Sen. Tom Cotton, Vic Matus, and Haviv Rettig Gur.

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0:00.0

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0:35.6

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0:38.2

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0:42.4

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0:48.2

Good morning, Lori, and even Grace America. I'm Hugh Hewitt Live in Relief Factory Studio West.

0:54.0

I had just wrapped up talking to a Vibretted gore. I'm Gu-Huitt Live in Relief Factor Studio West. I just wrapped up talking to Aviv Redi Gour.

0:57.6

I'm not going to play it for you until the end of the program because I do a little post-op on it.

1:02.1

But we did have one exchange at the end, which I want to lead. We're talking about Iran and what President Trump will do or not do.

1:11.5

And I said, is there anything that, can President Trump fall to a level of President Obama in your eyes if he doesn't do anything?

1:20.7

And here's what Haviv had to say about that.

1:24.2

I'm back with Aviv, Red Hat Gour.

1:26.1

Habib, what were you going to say about President

1:27.6

Obama? You ask me if President Trump doesn't bomb Iran, what happens? Can we compare him to President Obama? Yes. I want to be very clear about this. And I don't want to step into American politics, and I don't know half the topics that are setting American politics on fire. I'm going to say, just in the context of the Iran issue.

1:43.2

Nothing President Trump does with

1:45.5

Iran will ever bring him down to the level of the disaster that the JCPOA represented. The fact that

1:53.4

the JCPRI said that they can, you know, inspectors can always go anywhere, but then there was a 24-hour

1:58.2

period where they would have to have a consultation over whether they would go anywhere. The fact that it didn't concern the ballistic missile

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