“An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war. We’d lose,” writes Tucker Carlson in a post published on June 4, in response to Mark Levin’s visit to the White House to lobby for war with Iran.
Carlson ridicules Levin’s claim that Iran is on the cusp of producing nuclear weapons, saying that “the same people have been making the same claim since at least the 1990s. It’s a lie.” U.S. intelligence does not believe that Iran is building a bomb.
Iran will never give up its nuclear program entirely, Carlson says, because the country’s leaders saw what happened to Qaddafi when he disarmed.
The real goal is not safety from Iranian nuclear weapons, but regime change. “America’s record of overthrowing foreign leaders is so embarrassingly counterproductive that regime change has become a synonym for disaster,” Carlson writes. “So instead of telling the truth about their motives, they manufacture hysteria: ‘A country like Iran can never have the bomb! They’ll nuke Los Angeles! We have to act now!’”
Carlson says that Trump ran on an anti-war platform, and that a war with Iran “would amount to a profound betrayal of his supporters.”
And Iran is not isolated, he remarks: “It’s now part of a global bloc called BRICS, which represents the majority of the world’s landmass, population, economy and military power.”
He says that those pushing for war insist on Iran giving up all uranium enrichment, while being aware that it is an impossible request: “They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand.”
The goal is regime-change war in Iran, he concludes.
