Tucker Carlson: “The Iranian nuclear program was the justification for this…”

“Because we blew them up, whatever, you remember the story. And we needed to neutralize that threat. The Iranian nuclear program was the justification for this regime change effort, for killing the Ayatollah, bombing the girls, school, everything that's happened in the last three months. And we had to do this not simply for Israel's sake, because you would never go to war on behalf of a foreign country. That would be effectively treason.” (04:54–05:04)

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