Actor John Cusack abandoned all efforts at self-preservation when he declared that Iran “should get” a nuclear weapon and claimed that doing so would be “the only way” to truly keep the United States and Israel in check.
Cusack, who has often been critical of administrations run by both major political parties, claims first and foremost to be “anti-war” — a position he describes more as “pro-troops and pro-human” because he’d prefer to see all troops returned home and an end to the killing. Despite that position, he took to X on Friday to argue that the world’s largest state sponsor of terror should have access to the most dangerous weapon in existence — even though Iran has called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” and frequently uses “death to America” as a rallying cry.
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“Iran will surely rush to get a nuclear weapon — and they should get one — it’s the only way to deter US and Israel from bombing every country in Middle East,” Cusack posted just days after the United States military executed targeted strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
The American strikes, in combination with a series of attacks carried out by the Israel Defense Forces against military and nuclear targets in Iran, were all aimed at the same objective: preventing a rogue Islamist state from acquiring nuclear weapons. In response to the attacks, Iran fired missiles indiscriminately at civilian populations in Israel, attempting to overwhelm the Iron Dome’s defense capabilities – and, in some cases, succeeding.
Cusack’s commentary over the last several years has been blatantly anti-Israel. He has repeatedly claimed that the situation in Gaza amounts to a genocide, denying mass rape perpetrated by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, who slaughtered 1,200 Israelies and sparked the ongoing war.
He also referred to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “a murderous gangster” — but had no such words for the terrorists who entered Israeli homes, labeling Hamas as a “charity organization” in past posts on X. He made no mention of the Israelis who remain hostage in Gaza, subjected to as yet unknown tortures at the hands of their Iranian-backed captors.
“Blind allegiance for Israel is alliance to a genocidal regeme — it’s a nation state — run [b]y a murderous gangster — not some fixed star,” he claimed.
Blind allegiance for Israel is alliance to a genocidal regeme – it’s a nation state – run my a murderous gangster – not some fixed star.
— John Cusack (@johncusack) June 28, 2025
