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Washington – The personality of the right media, Tucker Carlson, faced Ted Cruz in an interview and Published a clip Tuesday night when the senator could not answer questions About Iran.
“How many people live in Iran, by the way?” Carlson asked the Texas Republican.
“I don’t know the population,” said Cruz.
“At all?” Carlson asked, encouraging Cruz to reiterate that he did not know. “You do not know the population of the country you are looking to overthrow?”
Asked again how Cruz did not know the Iranian population, the senator replied: “I am not sitting on memorizing population tables.” (THE Estimated CIA In 2024, the country’s level of the country was around 88 million.)
The clip immediately caught fire online, Carlson’s post accumulating more than 22 million views and thousands of comments, according to X Analytics.
The clash underlines A wider split in the Maga movement Above American participation in the conflict between Iran and Israel. A faction of the movement, including Carlson, urged the American intervention, painting the other side “Wijlergers“The more athletic faction, which includes Cruz, strongly supported the University to support the efforts of Israel.
The conflict comes when President Donald Trump weighs what he will do, with a senior administration official by telling NBC News on Wednesday morning that “all the options remain on the table”. Asked about the potential of the United States against Iran, Trump told journalists on Wednesday: “I can do it, I may not be.”
Cruz said in a Fox News interview On Sunday, he believed that “it is a lot in the interest of America to see the change of diet” in Iran.
Also included in the Carlson’s interview clipWho is broadcast in full Wednesday, the former Fox News animator argued that Cruz’s knowledge of the Iranian population was “in a way relevant because you call the overthrow of the government”.
A few moments later, Carlson asked Cruz the ethnic mix of Iran.
“These are Persians and mainly Shiites,” said Cruz, referring to a sect of Islam.
Carlson cut to ask for percentages, and Cruz retorted, “it’s cute” while the two men were talking. (The Persians make up the largest ethnic group in Iran, but the country also Azeri, Kurd, Lur and Other groups, according to the CIA.))
“You don’t know anything about Iran,” said Carlson, and the interview was made up of a heated and riding exchange.
After the publication of the clip, Cruz accused Carlson on x To release “an extract playing a” goat “on the population of Iran”.
“I refused to play this silly game,” he continued, encouraging people to watch the full interview when it is broadcast.
Trump weighed on Carlson’s criticism of potential American strikes on Iran, calling the former Fox News animator “Kooky”.
“Someone please explain to Kooky Tucker Carlson”, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon! “Trump said in An article on Truth Social Tuesday Before the interview clip was published on X.
Asked by a journalist on Monday for his response to Carlson calling Trump “accomplice” of the conflict with Iran, Trump said: “I don’t know what Tucker Carlson says. Let him look for a television network and say it so that people listen.” Carlson left Fox News in 2023.
Garrett Haake,, Sarah Dean And Katherine Doyle contributed.
