Tucker Carlson: “Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon?”

“That's fair, yeah. They can't have a nuke. Whenever asked, we say, let's just start here. They can't have a nuke. Okay, got it. Everyone agreed with that, conceptually. Was Iran on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon? No, they weren't. You know, three weeks ago, and this. This started. And they weren't in June either. I mean, the Iranians have had a religious ruling, a fatwa against actually developing a nuclear weapon since 2004.” (30:29–30:35)

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