Mehdi Hasan Gives Full-Throated Endorsement of Tucker Carlson Foreign Policy Rant: ‘I Hate to Say This But…’
LEFT: Mehdi Hasan RIGHT: Tucker Carlson
Mehdi Hasan — a far-left commentator and longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy — gave an unexpected, but full-throated endorsement of a rant from far-right talking head Tucker Carlson warning the Trump administration not to strike “Iranian nuclear sites” on Monday night.
“It’s worth pointing out that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars,” wrote Carlson on X. “The cost of future acts of terrorIsm [sic] on American soil may be even higher. Those aren’t guesses. Those are the Pentagon’s own estimates. A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war, and it will be America’s war. Don’t let the propagandists lie to you.”
“I hate to say this but Carlson is 100% correct here,” declared Hasan in a quote-tweet.
Carlson has adopted an increasingly revisionist view of the United States’ role in the world in recent years, as well as broken from the Republican Party on the issue of Iran, specifically.
When President Donald Trump’s first administration eliminated Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian terrorist-general, in January 2020, Carlson was critical of the decision and suggested on his Fox News show that the U.S. would soon be at war with the rogue Middle Eastern state.
“Is Iran really the greatest threat we face? And who’s actually benefiting from this? And why are we continuing to ignore the decline of our own country in favor of jumping into another quagmire from which there is no obvious exit? If we’re still in Afghanistan 19 years later, what makes us think there’s a quick way out of Iran?” asked Carlson at the time, while condemning “chest-beaters” for celebrating Trump’s decision.
“There are an awful lot of bad people in this world. We can’t kill them all, it’s not our job,” he added.
More recently, Carlson argued that the “whole purpose” of Jewish journalist Bari Weiss’s career “is to kind of soften up the right for war with Iran.”
