Former US VP Mike Pence says Israel’s attack on Iran 'was a righteous act,' calls out Tucker Carlson

In an interview with News Nation on Sunday, former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said that Israel’s attack on Iran “was a righteous act.”

“From my standpoint, it was a righteous act and the United States should continue to provide material support to Israel,” Pence stated. “Israel acted alone on Friday morning, but Israel is not alone.”

He said that the attack was justified due to Iran’s support for terrorist groups, and in order to prevent them from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

“I think if the world knows nothing else, the world should know that America stands with Israel,” he said. “What happened on Friday morning was a courageous act by Israeli Defense Forces to take action that was necessary to prevent the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world from ever obtaining a usable nuclear weapon.”

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Pence also said that Washington must continue to support Israel militarily “to ensure that Iran never obtains a nuclear weapon and that the uranium enrichment program in Iran is either verifiably dismantled or completely destroyed.”

He also called out “isolationist voices” who oppose American support for Israel’s war against Iran.

“I know those isolationist voices that have been calling for cutting off aid in Eastern Europe, and some even, this week, on the outside of the administration, have incomprehensibly called for ‘dumping’ Israel – I think that was the word,” Pence continued.

“But that shows a tremendous lack of understanding about [what] Iran represents. Iran supported Hamas, they support Hezbollah, they support the Houthis. They not only breathe ‘death to Israel,’ but ‘death to America.’”

The comments were an apparent reference to recent statements made by political commentator Tucker Carlson.

While acknowledging that Israel has “every right” to wage the war and “is a sovereign country” that “can do as it pleases,” Carlson said the U.S. should not support the war and should instead “drop Israel.”

“The United States should not [at] any level participate in a war with Iran,” Carlson wrote in his newsletter. “No funding, no American weapons, no troops on the ground. Regardless of what our ‘special ally’ says, a fight with the Iranians has nothing to offer the United States.”

Carlson argued that materially supporting Israel in the war would either “further whip up the radical Islamic world’s hatred for the West and fuel the next generation of terrorism,” or lead to “thousands of American deaths, all in the name of a foreign agenda that has nothing to do with our country.”

“But there is another option: drop Israel,” he concluded. “Let them fight their own wars.”