Commentator and podcast host Tucker Carlson has introduced that he’ll interview Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian weeks after the U.S. struck the nation’s nuclear services.
Carlson, who has constructed one of many world’s largest on-line reveals since his departure from Fox Information over two years in the past, posted a preview of the interview on the X platform.
“We all know we’ll be criticized for doing this interview,” Carlson stated. “Why did we do it anyway?
“Nicely, we did it as a result of we had been simply at conflict with Iran 10 days in the past, and possibly once more.”
“And so, our view, which has remained constant over time, is that Americans have the constitutional proper and the God-given proper to all the knowledge they will collect about issues that have an effect on them,” he added.
The interview is predicted to air within the coming days.
However after all. https://t.co/8mYnPvzAtU
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) July 5, 2025
Tucker admitted that there have been questions on which he couldn’t obtain “trustworthy reply,” together with how the U.S. and Israeli strikes had affected the nation’s nuclear weapons program.
“There’s no probability he’s going to reply that query truthfully. I didn’t trouble to ask it.”
”The reply, in reality, from an American perspective, even from the CIA’s perspective, is unknowable. So we dispense with these,” he stated.
The announcement comes off the again of a fiery interview Carlson held with Ted Cruz through which the 2 clashed over the Texas Senator’s shut hyperlinks to the Israel foyer.
I’ll always remember this Tucker/Ted Cruz change so long as I dwell: pic.twitter.com/t6b5AKmIcK
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) June 18, 2025
Carlson revealed that he had additionally requested an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu however had to date been unsuccessful.
He added that the “function of the interview was so as to add to the corpus of information from which Individuals can derive their very own opinion.
“We hope that this interview does a small half to creating that promise actual this interview shall be up as quickly as we now have carried out modifying it as famous and that ought to be in a day or two.”
The 56-year-old has beforehand scored interviews with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Argentinian President Javier Milei, El Salvadorian President Nayyib Bukele and President Trump.