The Tucker Carlson Show - July 05, 2025


Why We’re Interviewing President of Iran Mosoud Pezeshkian

Hosted by
Tucker Carlson
Mentioned
Benjamin Netanyahu Massoud Pazeshkian
Rob O’Neill： Near-Death Experiences, Top Secret Area 51 Helicopter, & the Disgusting Push for War The President Of Iran

Episode Stats


Length

3 minutes

Words per minute

186.41

Word count

569

Sentence count

49


Summary

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We just finished up an interview with the President of Iran, the 70-year-old heart surgeon Masoud Pazeshkian, who leads the country we were just at war with about a week and a half ago. We know we'll be criticized for doing this interview, but the point is that American citizens have the constitutional right and the God-given right to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them. And that would include hearing from the people they're fighting.

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 We just finished up an interview with Masoud Pazeshkian, who is the president of Iran,
00:00:36.140 the 70-year-old heart surgeon who leads the country we were just at war with about a week and a half ago.
00:00:42.000 We know we'll be criticized for doing this interview.
00:00:44.420 Why did we do it anyway?
00:00:45.560 Well, we did it because we were just at war with Iran 10 days ago and maybe again.
00:00:51.820 And so our view, which has remained consistent over time,
00:00:54.380 is that American citizens have the constitutional right and the God-given right
00:00:59.220 to all the information they can gather about matters that affect them.
00:01:04.360 If their country is doing something with their money in their name,
00:01:07.240 they have a right, an absolute right, to know as much about it as they can.
00:01:10.340 And that would include hearing from the people they're fighting.
00:01:13.960 Now, can you believe everything you hear from the president of Iran?
00:01:17.480 Probably not.
00:01:19.220 But that's not the point.
00:01:20.580 The point is you should be able to decide for yourself whether you believe it or not.
00:01:24.700 And keep in mind that anyone who seeks to deny you that right is not your ally, but your enemy.
00:01:30.380 By the way, we have also put in, for the third time in the last several months,
00:01:34.000 an interview request with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:01:37.880 and we hope he accepts that.
00:01:39.560 The interview is limited by a couple of factors.
00:01:42.140 One, it was done by remote through a translator.
00:01:44.140 That's always awkward.
00:01:45.800 For another, I don't speak Persian.
00:01:48.140 And there are all kinds of questions that I didn't ask the president of Iran,
00:01:51.780 particularly questions to which I knew I could not get an honest answer,
00:01:55.280 such as, was your nuclear program totally disabled by the bombing campaign
00:01:59.080 by the U.S. government a week and a half ago?
00:02:01.360 There's no chance he's going to answer that question.
00:02:03.160 Honestly, I didn't bother to ask it.
00:02:04.860 The answer, in fact, from an American perspective,
00:02:07.260 even from the CIA's perspective, is unknowable.
00:02:09.880 So we dispensed with those, and I asked him very simple questions,
00:02:13.100 such as, what is your goal?
00:02:15.760 Do you seek war with the United States?
00:02:17.440 Do you seek war with Israel?
00:02:18.480 Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:02:19.840 Again, the purpose of this was not to get to the absolute truth.
00:02:22.520 That's impossible in an interview like this.
00:02:24.760 The purpose of the interview was to add to the corpus of knowledge
00:02:28.120 from which Americans can derive their own opinion.
00:02:31.680 Learn everything you can, and then you decide.
00:02:33.720 That's the promise of America.
00:02:34.800 And we hope that this interview does a small part
00:02:39.300 to making that promise real.
00:02:41.500 This interview will be up as soon as we have done editing it,
00:02:44.580 as noted, and that should be in a day or two.
00:02:46.880 Come on, thank you.
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