Joy Reid Suggests Giving Iran Nukes Could Make the Region ‘Polite’ [WATCH]

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid appeared to suggest that a nuclear-armed Iran might lead to a more stable Middle East, during a Tuesday appearance on “The Breakfast Club.”

Her comments followed President Donald Trump’s recent order to bomb three Iranian nuclear sites, which he described as a “very successful attack.”

Reid compared the possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons to the concept of mutual deterrence, likening it to firearm ownership in Texas.

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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?”

She continued, “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. 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 questioned Israel’s motivations for launching strikes against Iran, arguing that the goal was not to prevent nuclear proliferation but to assert regional dominance.

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“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,” Reid 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 J.D. Vance responded to these kinds of claims during a Monday appearance on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” stating that Iran had been dangerously close to achieving nuclear capability before President Trump authorized strikes.

“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.”

President Trump has maintained a consistent position that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon.

During a statement Wednesday, the president warned that allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons could result in catastrophic consequences.

“They would be a terror all over the world,” Trump said, emphasizing the global threat posed by a nuclear-capable Iran.

Iran, which is designated by the U.S. government as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, remains under extensive international sanctions for its funding and support of terrorist organizations operating throughout the Middle East.

These groups have been responsible for numerous attacks that have killed American servicemembers and civilians.

The Trump administration has stated that its goal is to prevent Iran from ever achieving nuclear weapons capability, and that the recent airstrikes were intended to halt Iran’s progress toward that objective.

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