Tucker Carlson has warned President Donald Trump not to heed his former Fox News colleague Mark Levin’s advice, which he claims will “end his presidency.”
Levin, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was reportedly at the White House this week to lobby for war with Iran, claiming the Islamic Republic is “weeks away” from developing a nuclear weapon—a claim Carlson dismissed as “a lie.”
“There is zero credible intelligence that suggests Iran is anywhere near building a bomb, or has plans to. None,” Carlson stated in a fiery post on X. “Anyone who claims otherwise is ignorant or dishonest.”
The former Fox News host argued that the same warnings made by Levin about Iran’s nuclear capabilities have been recycled for decades without evidence, and suggested that he and other interventionists are more concerned with regime change than nuclear proliferation.
“If the U.S. government knew Iran was weeks from possessing a nuclear weapon, we’d be at war already,” Carlson said.
“Iran knows this, which is why they aren’t building one. Iran also knows it’s unwise to give up its weapons program entirely. Muammar Gaddafi tried that and wound up sodomized with a bayonet. As soon as Gaddafi disarmed, NATO killed him. Iran’s leaders saw that happen. They learned the obvious lesson.”
He added: “So why is Mark Levin once again hyperventilating about weapons of mass destruction? To distract you from the real goal, which is regime change—young Americans heading back to the Middle East to topple yet another government.
“Virtually no one will say this out loud. America’s record of overthrowing foreign leaders is so embarrassingly counterproductive that regime change has become a synonym for disaster. Officially, no one supports it. So instead of telling the truth about their motives, they manufacture hysteria: ‘A country like Iran can never have the bomb! They’ll nuke Los Angeles! We have to act now!’
Carlson pointed out that two of Iran’s neighbors—Pakistan and Israel—already possess nuclear weapons, yet Levin never mentions them. “It’s not the weapons he hates. It’s the ideology of the Iranian government.”
Furthermore, an attack on Iran would result in the deaths of “thousands of Americans” and plunge the U.S. into a third world war, he added, due to the Islamic Republic’s extensive ties to Russia and China.
“An attack on Iran could very easily become a world war. We’d lose,” he wrote. “Many Americans would die during a war with Iran. People like Mark Levin don’t seem to care about this. It’s not relevant to them. Instead they insist that Iran give up all uranium enrichment, regardless of its purpose. They know perfectly well that Iran will never accept that demand.”
Carlson concluded: “The one thing that people like Mark Levin don’t want is a peaceful solution to the problem of Iran, despite the obvious benefits to the United States. They denounce anyone who advocates for a deal as a traitor and a bigot. They tell us with a straight face that Long Island native Steve Witkoff is a secret tool of Islamic monarchies. They’ll say or do whatever it takes. They have no limits. These are scary people. Pray that Donald Trump ignores them.”
The two Fox alumni have previously clashed on a number of occasions, most recently during a spat last month in which Levin called Carlson “a little b-----d” after he criticized him for claiming the term “neocon” was a euphemism for “Jew.”
