{"id":2448358,"date":"2025-06-17T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-hewitt-slams-khamenei-as-most-inept-world-leader\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:16:45","slug":"hugh-hewitt-slams-khamenei-as-most-inept-world-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hugh-hewitt-slams-khamenei-as-most-inept-world-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Hewitt slams Khamenei as &#8216;most inept&#8217; world leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhugh-hewitt-slams-khamenei-as-most-inept-world-leader%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2448358&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hugh Hewitt, a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >radio host<\/a>, criticized Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyid Ali Khamenei during a live television segment, labeling him as potentially the &#8220;most inept&#8221; leader of a major power. Hewitt claimed that every decision Khamenei has made has been detrimental to Iran,especially referencing recent Israeli strikes on Iranian oil depots,which Khamenei&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failing-to-defeat-them-putin-asks-ukrainian-soldiers-to-stage-a-coup\/\" title=\"Failing to Defeat Them, Putin Asks Ukrainian Soldiers to Stage a Coup\">foreign minister accused<\/a> the U.S. of being involved in. Hewitt asserted that the collaborative efforts of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump have weakened iran&#8217;s position, particularly after the tragic October 7 massacre orchestrated by Hamas leader Yahya sinwar, who has since died. Despite the rising tensions in the region, Hewitt expressed optimism for peace in the Middle East, believing the resolution of the Iranian nuclear threat could lead to stronger relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and also a stable future for Palestine.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Hugh Hewitt slams Khamenei as &lsquo;most inept&rsquo; world leader amid conflict<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2147967\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Radio host <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hugh-hewitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a> blasted Iranian Supreme Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/seyed-ali-khamenei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ayatollah Seyid Ali Khamenei<\/a> on live television Tuesday because &ldquo;every decision he&rsquo;s made has been bad.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Iran<\/a> suffered strikes on two of its oil depots in Tehran on Saturday and its Iranian Defense Ministry Headquarters. While&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> took credit for the strikes, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi alleged on state TV that he had proof that the United States was involved.&nbsp;Hewitt appeared on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America&rsquo;s Newsroom<\/em> to also suggest that President Donald Trump &ldquo;greenlit&rdquo; the strikes, but it was Khamenei&rsquo;s strategy that was &ldquo;in ruins.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3444295\/wisconsin-supreme-court-gop-law-weakened-state-ag\/\">Wisconsin Supreme Court unanimously rules against GOP law that weakened state AG powers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3444133\/spain-blackout-power-outage-technical-errors\/\">Spain&rsquo;s massive power outage was caused by technical errors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3443643\/sean-duffy-big-beautiful-bill-aggressively-supports-air-traffic-control-reboot\/\">Duffy &lsquo;aggressively&rsquo; supports big, beautiful bill for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duffy-aggressively-supports-big-beautiful-bill-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Duffy \u2018aggressively\u2019 supports big, beautiful bill - Washington Examiner\">air traffic control reboot<\/a>: &lsquo;Gives us a start&rsquo;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Those two men, Netanyahu and Trump, have arranged for Iran to feel jolts of the sort they have never felt before and I think the Ayatollah Khamenei may be the most inept and erratic fanatic to ever run a major power &mdash; it&rsquo;s not a nuclear power but it&rsquo;s a major power,&rdquo; Hewitt said. &ldquo;And every decision he has made has been bad. His entire strategy, built up over 30 years to surround Israel, is in ruins. Because Sinwar went early on [Oct. 7] with that horrific massacre, and Israel has methodically reduced all the threats, and now they&rsquo;re gonna reduce the threat from Iran.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2986932&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=10455&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=ceefde0422f0c61369bcf26cf43dacc4\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hewitt was referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3193317\/hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar-dead-october-7-mastermind-eliminated-idf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the late Yahya Sinwar,<\/a> who led the terrorist group Hamas until his death last October. Sinwar orchestrated the invasion into southern Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,200 on Oct. 7. Another 250 hostages were taken by Hamas, but the majority have been confirmed dead or returned. Approximately 53 remain unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rising tensions, Hewitt predicted peace on the horizon for the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3442267\/trump-us-nothing-to-do-with-recent-strikes-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>TRUMP SAYS US HAD &lsquo;NOTHING TO DO&rsquo; WITH RECENT STRIKES ON IRAN, WARNS &lsquo;FULL STRENGTH&rsquo; RESPONSE IF ATTACKED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think that the Middle East is going to have an era of peace once the Iranian nuclear threat and their proxies are destroyed. I think the Abraham Accords are gonna grow fast and strong. Israel is going to be at the centerpiece of a relationship with many of its Arab and Muslim neighbors,&rdquo; Hewitt said. There&rsquo;s gonna be peace in Palestine. I believe the president is genuinely committed to that. He started the Abraham Accords in term one.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3443777\/trump-immediate-evacuation-tehran-iran-nuclear-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Truth Social post\">Truth Social post<\/a> on Monday, Trump called for all Iranians to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3443777\/trump-immediate-evacuation-tehran-iran-nuclear-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">&ldquo;immediately evacuate&rdquo;<\/a> Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2147967\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2147967\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt criticizes Khamenei as the &#8216;most inept&#8217; leader<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2448359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP24054066277843-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[44173,44112,36807,32171,35030],"class_list":["post-2448358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hugh-hewitt","tag-inept-leadership","tag-khamenei","tag-political-commentary","tag-world-leaders"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AP24054066277843-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2448362,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448358\/revisions\/2448362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2448359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}