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The Tucker Carlson Show

Jeffrey Sachs on the Real Origins of the Iran War and the Coming Economic Devastation

The Tucker Carlson Show

Tucker Carlson Network

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4.1 • 15.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Jeffrey Sachs on the real origins of the Iran war, and the coming economic devastation. (00:00) Where Does the Iran War Go From Here? (10:13) Iran’s Growing Power Since the War Began (24:37) The Nuclear Weapon Lie Surrounding Iran (41:12) Iran’s Drought, Israel’s Use of the U.S., and Accepting a Stronger Iran (1:07:08) Zionism’s Origin Jeffrey D. Sachs is a Columbia University professor and leading foreign policy expert. He has advised multiple UN Secretaries-General and serves as an SDG Advocate to António Guterres. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and spent over 20 years as a professor at Harvard University. He is also the author of The Ages of Globalization (2020) and Ethics in Action for Sustainable Development (2022). Paid partnerships with: Good Ranchers: Use code TUCKER to get an additional $25 off your first order at https://go.goodranchers.com/tucker Audien Hearing: Learn more about how Audien can help you or someone you love hear better. Call 1-800-453-2916 or visit https://HearTucker.com Joi + Blokes: Use code TUCKER for 50% off your labs and 20% off all supplements at https://joiandblokes.com/tucker TCN: NEW! Tucker Carlson Books presents Russell Brand’s ‘How to Become a Christian in 7 Days.’ Available only on  https://tuckercarlsonbooks.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.5

Jeff, thanks all for doing this.

0:36.0

Great to be with you.

0:37.1

Where does it go from here, the war in Iran?

0:41.5

You know, we always talk about the fork in the road.

0:44.5

We're really at a decisive moment.

0:50.3

There's an off-ramp.

0:52.4

It's definitely, definitely, definitely the one that we should be taking.

0:59.8

We should be avoiding a return to outright bombing, to renewed military action.

1:11.8

That's a very real possibility.

1:15.6

And the other possibility, in my view, is pretty much an uncontrolled escalation into full-blown war that would become a regional war and that could become a world war.

1:31.1

I think we're really at that moment right now.

1:36.0

Maybe that sounds naive because why not next week?

1:40.4

Why not the week after?

1:41.5

Why not the week after?

1:43.1

But the problem is that we're not in a

1:46.2

stable situation where we can choose one or the other. We're in an unstable situation. As we speak,

1:56.0

the world economy is reeling. It's reeling because, as everybody has learned in their geography in the last few weeks,

2:08.2

the Strait of Hormuz is closed.

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