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Tucker Carlson Now Advocates Iran Should Have Nuclear Weapons to Counter Israel

Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2421 - Obama’s Back And He’s Taking Control · May 8, 2026
Tucker Carlson Now Advocates Iran Should Have Nuclear Weapons to Counter Israel
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Ep. 2421 - Obama’s Back And He’s Taking Control
"The mutually assured destruction principle, which as ugly as it sounds, is real. It's absolutely real. What you don't want is a nation that feels no constraints whatsoever, that feels it can do whatever it wants... you could still make the case on a pragmatic basis that, look at the effects, look at the effects, they are less bad than this."
In a dramatic shift from his 2017 position warning about Islamic terrorism, Tucker Carlson now argues Iran should be allowed to develop nuclear weapons as a counterbalance to what he implies is Israeli unconstrained power. Shapiro presents this as evidence of the 'new left' or 'woke right' aligning with Obama's third-worldist foreign policy views.
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