Tucker Carlson conducted an interview with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Carlson announced in a video posted on social media on Saturday night.
In the video, he stated that he is aware he will be criticized for conducting the interview.
"We did because we were just at war with Iran ten days ago, and maybe again, and so our view that has remained consistent over time is that American citizens have the constitutional right and the god given right to all of the information they can gather about matters that affect them," he insisted.
"If their country is doing something with their money in their name, they have a right, an absolute right to know as much about it as they can. And that would include hearing from the people they are fighting," he stated.
He went on to address the question of whether or not a person could believe anything that Pezeshkian said in the interview. Carlson said, "Probably not. But that's not the point. The point is you should be able to decide for yourself whether you believe it or not. And keep in mind that anyone who seeks to deny you that right is not your ally but your enemy."
He then went on to comment how he had reached out to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to request an interview multiple times over the last few months, and he hopes that the prime minister will accept.
Carlson describes his interview with Pezeshkian as limited by many factors due to the fact that it was remote and "done via a translator, that's always awkward, for another, I don't speak Persian."
Carlson knew many questions would not get an honest answer
He continued by saying how there were many questions he did not ask the Iranian president because he knew it would be impossible for him to get an honest answer, such as questions pertaining to the current capabilities of Iran's nuclear facilities after Operation Midnight Hammer.
Carlson said, "There's no chance, he's going to answer that question honestly, I didn't bother to ask it."
"The purpose of this was not to get to the absolute truth that's impossible, in an interview like this, the purpose of the interview, was to add to the corpus of knowledge from which Americans can derive their own opinion, learn everything you can and then you decide, that's the promise of America, and we hope that this interview does a small part to making that promise real," he concluded.
Carlson said the interview will be uploaded as soon as editing is completed, which is expected to be done within the next day or two.