Commenting on Tucker Carlson, President Trump told Jonathan Karl of ABC News stating, Carlson “is not MAGA” and lacks the clarity to understand America’s strategic priorities. Trump’s criticism may be blunt, but it points to a deeper problem. The issue is not that Carlson has “lost his way”. The issue is that the path he has chosen increasingly mirrors the messaging of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

For decades, regime in Tehran has pursued a sophisticated information campaign designed to weaken American resolve, divide Western societies, and delegitimize opposition to the regime. It also has been spreading anti-Semitism and Israel-hatred through numerous methods—one of which is annual observance of “Quds Day” during the last Friday of Ramadan. In recent broadcasts following the elimination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Carlson echoed many of those narratives with striking precision.

Whether intentional or not, his commentary now functions as one of the most powerful amplifiers of Tehran’s talking points in the English-speaking world. His central claim is that the confrontation between Washington and Tehran exists primarily because of Jerusalem’s influence. According to this narrative, the United States has been dragged into a conflict that serves Israeli interests rather than its own. Anyways, this misleading argument collapses when confronted with historical reality.

Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Iran has treated the United States as its principal ideological enemy. The regime’s hostility has not been rhetorical alone—it has repeatedly manifested in deadly attacks against Americans.

In 1983, the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut killed 241 American service members in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks against US forces since World War II. The operation was carried out by Hezbollah, a militia created and supported by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

In 1996, a truck bomb destroyed the Khobar Towers housing complex in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 US Air Force personnel.

During the Iraq War, Iranian-backed militias used advanced roadside bombs supplied by the IRGC-Quds Force, weapons that American investigators linked to the deaths of hundreds of US troops.

Iranian operatives were also implicated in a 2011 plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington by bombing a restaurant in Georgetown—a plan that would have killed American civilians in the US capital.

These events reveal an undeniable pattern: Tehran has been engaged in a sustained confrontation with the United States for more than four decades. To argue that the........

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