Tucker Carlson warns Trump against bombing Iran after 'great force' threat

Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson is warning President Trump against a preemptive strike against Iran after the president ordered strikes on Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East over the weekend.
"Any further attack or retaliation by the 'Houthis' will be met with great force, and there is no guarantee that that force will stop there," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Monday. "Iran has played 'the innocent victim' of rogue terrorists from which they’ve lost control, but they haven’t lost control."
The president added that "every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible," saying the nation will "suffer the consequences," and those consequences will be "dire."
Carlson, a former cable news host who has a close relationship with Trump, urged the president against such a move.
"It’s worth pointing out that a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths at bases throughout the Middle East, and cost the United States tens of billions of dollars," the commentator wrote on the social platform X. "The cost of future acts of terrorIsm on American soil may be even higher. Those aren’t guesses. Those are the Pentagon’s own estimates. A bombing campaign against Iran will set off a war, and it will be America’s war. Don’t let the propagandists lie to you."
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