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Tucker Carlson: “Iran's nuclear program posed such a threat to the United…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Tucker Carlson on whether Trump betrayed America First over the Iran war | The Economist

Published | Video Starts at 05:35

All I've heard is the kind of tiresome fear mongering about nuclear weapons which Iran did not have. It's, it's insulting actually even to make that argument to me that Iran's nuclear program posed such a threat to the United States three weeks ago that we had to launch a full scale war against them. No one's even arguing that because it's stupid and the facts don't support it. So why did we do this when we did it? Because Israel wanted to do it at the. (05:35–05:42)

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Asserts skepticism about the threat level of Iran's nuclear program justifying war.

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