Tucker’s Interview with the Iranian President

I watched Tucker’s interview with the Iranian president, and here are my comments on what he said.

1. "Iran didn’t start this war."

The war didn’t start last month, it ended last month. What we’re witnessing is the consequence of 40 years of unprovoked Iranian aggression. Since 1979, Iran has been the engine of Middle Eastern instability. In 1983, its proxy Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut. Since then, Tehran has funded, armed, and directed a global network of terror: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq and Syria. They’ve launched missiles at U.S. bases, smuggled weapons and drugs across continents, threatened global trade routes, and called publicly for the annihilation of Israel and the downfall of the United States. When the The U.S. or Israel respond, it’s not starting a war.

2: "Netanyahu made up Iran’s nuclear ambitions."

People have every right to doubt Netanyahu. He’s been warning for over two decades that Iran is close to building a nuclear weapon. But he wasn’t lying. Iran was close, multiple times, and the only reason it hasn’t crossed the nuclear threshold is because Israel acted. Mossad agents assassinated key nuclear scientists. They blew up enrichment facilities. They infiltrated and stole secret nuclear archives from the heart of Tehran. These are documented operations. Netanyahu always said: “When Iran gets close, we will act.” And they always did, just like they did last month.

3: “We’ve never wanted a nuke, not now, not ever. IAEA can confirm.”

2015 IAEA report: Iran was working on nukes pre-2003. 2023 IAEA: Iran blocked inspections at Fordow and other sites, and kicked out monitors. IAEA reports from May 2025 confirmed Iran’s 60% enriched uranium stockpile grew to 274.8 kg, enough to produce weapons-grade material in weeks breaking the JCPOA.

4: “Israel torpedoed the nuclear deal.”

Trump’s team held five rounds of talks starting April 12, 2025, in Oman, Rome, and Muscat, demanding Iran halt uranium enrichment, a non-negotiable red line. Iran flat-out rejected this, insisting on its “right” to enrich, per Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Trump set a 60-day deadline for a deal, expiring June 9, 2025. When Iran balked, he publicly warned on June 9 that Iran rejected a U.S. proposal for a regional nuclear consortium to control enrichment, signaling talks were collapsing. Iran’s piling up near-weapons-grade uranium and stonewalling on enrichment, torpedoed the talks.

5: “IAEA leaked info to Israel.”

If the IAEA says Iran’s program is clean, what’s there to leak? It’s far more plausible that Mossad informed the IAEA, not the other way around. Mossad’s intelligence, from the 2018 nuclear archive operation to the 2024 Parchin facility raid, came from its own covert missions. These weren’t IAEA leaks; they were the result of Israel’s independent surveillance, infiltration, and intelligence-gathering capabilities. If anything, Mossad often knew what the IAEA didn’t, because Tehran obstructed inspections and limited access. Iran kicked out a third of IAEA inspectors in 2024 and disabled cameras at Turquzabad, hiding potential nuclear traces.

6: “Netanyahu wants unrest; Iran seeks peace with the U.S.” “Zionist regime’s atrocities cause regional crises.” “We want to live in peace with everyone.”

Iran bankrolled Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack and deliberately sabotaged peace talks between Israel and Saudi Arabia. On October 8, Hezbollah, Iran’s proxy, launched an unprovoked attack on Israel. By January 2024, Iran’s Houthi allies were firing missiles at ships in the Red Sea and at Israeli territory. Israel is battling Iranian proxies on six fronts. The chaos is driven by Tehran’s 40-year campaign of terror, not by Bibi.

7: “Israel tried to kill me but failed.”

Israel smoked Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh in the heart of Tehran in July 2024, detonating a bomb in his IRGC-run guesthouse. Since Oct. 7, 2023, IDF erased Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar, Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah, and dozens of IRGC brass with surgical precision. June 13, 2025, strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites, Natanz, Fordow, were so clean they left no civilian damage. If Israel wanted Pezeshkian gone, he’d be dust, not yapping to Tucker.

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