Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed conservatives as pushing Trump to go to war with Iran and trusting 'deep state' intelligence

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• The Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday criticized conservative hawks who had pushed for conflict with Iran.
• He accused conservatives of "uncritically" accepting claims from US intelligence that Iran posed an imminent threat.
• "It seems like about 20 minutes ago we were denouncing these very people as the 'deep state' and pledging to never trust them again without verification," he said. "But now, for some reason, we do seem to trust them implicitly and completely."
• Tensions between the US and Iran have ratcheted up after the US assassinated the top Iranian military commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike Friday.
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The Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his prime-time show Monday lashed out at conservative hawks and those he described as "deep state" intelligence officials as fueling the escalating conflict between the US and Iran.

Carlson in a monologue on the show said the conflict was being driven by the same US intelligence agencies that Trump supporters until recently were attacking as part of a so-called deep-state plot against President Donald Trump.

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