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Joy Reid Suggests Iran Having Nuclear Weapon Might Make Middle East ‘Calmer’

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Former MSNBC host Joy Reid appeared to suggest in a Tuesday interview that Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon might lead to more calm in the Middle East.

President Donald Trump on Saturday ordered the bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites, calling it a “very successful attack.” Reid, on “The Breakfast Club,” seemed to compare the idea of a nuclear-armed Middle East to the saying that Texans are polite because many carry firearms.

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“The reason you won’t see nuclear war in our lifetime is that everyone who would deem to threaten global annihilation has nukes — mutually assured destruction,” Reid said. “And I think what would, in a weird way, make the Middle East — you know how they say the most polite society in the country is Texas because everybody’s packing?”

“You know, maybe the Middle East would be calmer if there weren’t just — I mean, I spoke yesterday to a Navy veteran who used to fly those bombers that they used to drop the 30,000 lb bombs. And he was telling me, he said, don’t get it twisted,” she continued. “This war is not about a real threat that Iran posed to anyone. They don’t have nukes and they didn’t have nukes and they weren’t making nukes. This is about a geopolitical push, the same way it was when we went after [former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad] Mosaddegh. To make — we would rather have an Iran with a dictator who’s a puppet than a free Iran who could defy us and take the oil we feel entitled to.”

Reid also claimed Israel launched its war against Iran to achieve regional dominance rather than preventing the nation from acquiring nuclear weapons.

“In this case, Israel wants to be the hegemon of the region. They want to be the United States, the big boy in the block and have no competitors. And their biggest two potential competitors are Saudi Arabia and Iran,” she said. “And so the idea here is to make them the unquestioned superpower in the region. That’s what this is about. It is not about Iran imminently having nukes because apparently their two-week nuclear window has been lasting since 1996.”

Vice President JD Vance asserted on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Monday that Iran had been “very close” to building a nuclear weapon before the Trump administration attacked their sites.

“What I encourage my fellow Americans to think about here is that a week ago, the Iranians were quite close to achieving a nuclear weapon,” Vance said. “Now they cannot build a nuclear weapon. That is the biggest testament to the president’s leadership and to the success of our mission.”

Trump has long argued that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon. The president warned on Wednesday that Iran’s access to a nuclear weapon could result in them using it on the U.S. and other nations, adding that they would “be a terror all over the world.”

Iran is the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism and is sanctioned by large swaths of the globe for its backing and financing of various terrorist networks in the Middle East that have killed numerous U.S. forces.