“If you wake up in the morning living in the kind of country that thinks it’s okay to kill — not simply military officers — but their daughters… That country is not worth fighting for,” American conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on Monday (March 9, 2026), about an airstrike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, on February 28, 2026. Multiple media platforms have blamed the U.S. for the attack that killed 168 children and 14 teachers.
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Going all out against Israel and war-supporting politicians including U.S. President Donald Trump, Mr. Carlson is taking the U.S. Christian conservative movement by storm. His views on war and politics, he says repeatedly, are guided by his Christian faith. This is a line of attack that war enthusiasts in the U.S. have not been familiar with.
His targets — among them Senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio — defend their support for Israel as a Christian obligation.
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