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Tucker Carlson has interviewed the President of Iran about whether the Middle Eastern country is seeking war with the US.
The former Fox news host revealed that his sit down with Masoud Pezeshkian will air in the next day or two.
The interview was conducted remotely through a translator and is in the editing stage, according to Carlson.
Carlson explained that he stuck to simple questions for the interview such as, ‘What is your goal? Do you seek war with the United States? Do you seek war with Israel?’
‘There are all kinds of questions that I didn’t ask the president of Iran, particularly questions to which I knew I could get an not get an honest answer, such as: “Was your nuclear program totally disabled by the bombing campaign by the US government a week and a half ago?” Carlson said.
The political commentator also said he had made a third request in the past several months to interview Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who will be visiting Washington next week for talks with President Donald Trump.
Carlson acknowledged that the interview with Pezeshkian would be met with criticism but that Americans have the, ‘constitutional right and the God given right to all the information they can gather’.
Tucker Carlson has interviewed the President of Iran about whether the Middle Eastern country is seeking war with the US
The the sit down with Masoud Pezeshkian will air in the next day or two
Trump said on Friday he would discuss Iran with Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
Trump said he believed Tehran’s nuclear program had been set back permanently by recent US strikes that followed Israel’s attacks on the country last month, although Iran could restart it at a different location.
Trump also said Iran had not agreed to inspections of its nuclear program or to give up enriching uranium.
He said he would not allow Tehran to resume its nuclear program, adding that Iran did want to meet with him.
Pezeshkian said last month Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons, but will pursue its right to nuclear energy and research.
The interview comes just days after the US averted a war with Iran.
Carlson said that Americans have a right to hear from everyone, ‘including people they are fighting’.
‘Can you believe everything you hear from the president of Iran? Probably not. But that’s not the point […] you shoul be able to decide for yourself whether you believe it or not.’
The war, which saw Iran retaliate against Israeli and American military and civilian sites, began as US and Iranian diplomats sat down for talks over the Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Under a 2015 deal, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium below 3.67 percent purity for fuel for commercial nuclear power plants.
Trump abandoned the agreement in 2018 and Iran responded by producing uranium enriched to 60 percent – above levels for civilian usage but still below weapons grade.
That material, if further refined, would theoretically be sufficient to produce more than nine nuclear bombs.
The US struck Iran’s nuclear bases, including Fordow (pictured). The Middle Eastern country retaliated by bombing a US military base in Qatar
Before and after shots of the Fordow nuclear site showing the missile damage
Earlier this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres demanding both the U.S. and Israel be blamed for the recent 12-day Israel-Iran war.
‘We officially request hereby that the Security Council recognize the Israeli regime and the United States as the initiators of the act of aggression and acknowledge their subsequent responsibility, including the payment of compensation and reparations,’ he wrote.
While Trump celebrated what he called the ‘complete obliteration’ of the nuclear sites in Tehran, Iran was asking for relief elsewhere.
‘While the full scale of the losses is under assessment, several hospitals and relief centers were targeted in grave breach of international humanitarian law, a few energy installations were targeted with the aim of disrupting daily lives of civilians,’ Araghchi added.
Araghchi warned that to do nothing would ‘seriously undermine the credibility’ of the UN and ‘engenders lawlessness in the future of international relations in our region as well as the international community at large.’
The United States told the United Nations Security Council in a letter that strikes on Iran were ‘to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and stop the threat that this rogue regime obtains and uses a nuclear weapon.’
‘The United States remains committed to pursuing a deal with the Iranian government,’ wrote acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea.
Trump claims it’s ‘ridiculous’ that Iran has requested compensation through the UN for the bombing and asked the organization to blame the US and Israel for the 12-day war
Israel claims that Iran’s nuclear program is close to producing a bomb, whereas Tehran says it is for peaceful purposes.
Trump scoffed at the idea that Iran could force the United States to pay for the damage done by Israel and America that culminated in the drone strike against nuclear facilities in Tehran.
‘It’s pretty ridiculous,’ quipped the president during his Fourth of July celebration at the White House.
