Far-left actor John Cusack says Iran 'should get' nukes to protect Middle East from US and Israel

Fox News ^ | 6/30/25 | Gabriel Hays

[Libloather]

Anti-Israel and anti-Trump actor John Cusack expressed hope last Friday that Iran will get a nuclear weapon.

In a post shared to X, the actor said Iran should get a nuclear weapon so that it can deter the U.S. and Israel’s aggression in the Middle East.

"Iran will surely rush to get a nuclear weapon- and they should get one," he wrote, adding, "it’s the only way to deter US and Israel from bombing every country in Middle East."

Cusack published his post almost a week after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. military strikes on three major Iranian facilities believed to be developing nuclear weapons.

Long-range B-2 stealth bomber aircraft dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the locations on June 21 in an attack that Trump called "a spectacular military success."

Cusack has been harshly critical of Israel’s actions in its war in Gaza and war with Iran on social media. Prior to posting support for Iran getting nukes, he appeared to suggest that U.S. support for Israel meant the country was supporting a "genocidal" regime.

He wrote, "Blind allegiance for Israel is alliance to a genocidal regeme[sic] - it’s a nation state - run [by] a murderous gangster - not some fixed star."

Earlier, he posted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been killing innocent children, and he accused the U.S. of being complicit.

[LuxAerterna]

Does he have a movie coming...Or does he just need attention?

He jumped the shark years ago from fashionable Hollywood liberalism to lunatic derangement. Producers and directors won't work with flat out anti-Semites. They also won't work with prima donnas who cause problems on the set.

[PBRCat]

This moron is a total has been who spends most of his time denouncing Trump’s MAGA coalition. A former 1980s teen age heart throb, Cusack is no longer in demand and most of his movies wind up going directly to DVDs as no theater would screen his garbage. He spends a fair amount of time smoking cigarettes and vaping in Chicago.

[CodeToad]

Just another hollyweird child molester.

[popdonnelly]

Why do actors think they know everything? Shut up and stick to your profession.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

John Cusack, proving once again that there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe the path to peace lies in allowing the Islamic Revolutionary Government of Iran to have nuclear weapons, and those who aren’t complete f***ing idiots.

[Sirius Lee]

Can he really be called an actor if he hasn’t acted in, what? Thirty years?

[william clark]

Just when you think he couldn’t be more stupid.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Retarded failed child star hoping for his muzzie butt buddies to nuke Israel and the U.S. The boy is a pig. Some Hollowoodies never grow up.

[telescope115]

He needs to be SAT DOWN and forced to view the accumulated videos of the October 7th attacks on innocent civilians in Israel. But he will probably say it’s all fake. He’s that stupid.

Unbelievable.

[fuzzylogic]

“it’s the only way to deter US and Israel from bombing every country in Middle East.”

Except we don’t do that. We would prefer to not be bombed first, yet we are.

Do you want a murderous madman walking around with a gun because he’d be a ‘deterrent from other people shooting’? Of course not. That’s what the Ayatollah’s are. They’d be murderous madmen with a NUKE and “mutually assured destruction” wouldn’t be a deterrent to them. They’d just use it because “Allah told them to”. Israel would be gone by definition.

It’s astonishing how foolish these ‘celebrities’ are.

[larrytown]

What happens to child actors that get abused, drink and do drugs, and pretend to go through educational programs that simulate ‘high school’ - their brains are warped from the start, then they eat up this marxist anti-semitic tripe like it’s a bowl of hot Xanax.

Like to call these types Zinnites - after their pedagogical lord and master, Howard Zinn.

[chuckee]

Apparently it is a requirement that one must be a moron to be a Hollywood actor. Cusack fits that mold perfectly

[logi_cal869]

What a terrible but fitting epitaph to a career.

Please, let me see him next year a facsimile of Randy Quaid’s existence...

[Kriggerel]

I dunno about anyone else, but statements like that seem awful close to Fifth Column kind of stuff... Might not qualify as treasonous, but edging pretty darn close.

[chopperk]

Cusi has been messed up since childhood.

[daku]

B-list, washed up actor is mentioned publicly post acting career.
We are wasting electrons.

[imardmd1]

For John Cusac:

Johm, Iran having nuclear bombs won't protect them from the USA or Israel, or anybody else. They can only threaten to hurt that somebody.

And that will invite preemptive hurt to Iran and the religion it wants to propagate by conquering that somebody.

That's not even a zero-game score, John. Actor with a mouth to keep shut off the stage? Maybe. Crittical thinker? No, not at all.

[Albion Wilde]

Go back to Ireland, Cusack.

[Words Matter]

The genocidal Islamic fascist republic of Iran: Annihilation threats since 1991

The Iranians after the Islamic Revolution:

• They called for the destruction of Israel from 1991. Then via Mohsen Rabbani in Argentina (Carmon, Eli. 'Iran's Strategic Penetration into Latin America'. Lexington Press, 2014. p. 15/a>, LA Times, Aug 4, 1994)
• Rafsanjani in Dec 2001 called for nuclear weapons use on Israel (World Tribune 17 Dec. 2001)
• Ahmadinejad's repeated calls to wipe Israel off the map since Oct 2005.
• Khamenei's extermination rhetoric since Dec 15, 2000 (Jerusalem Post, June 22, 2008)
• In 2002, Khamenei called for terror against "Zionism" (Rubenstein, 'Jihad and Genocide', 2010, p. 122)
• Feb 2008: “Israel to be destroyed by Hizbullah” (Ynet, Feb 18, 2008)
• Feb 2012: Document justifies extermination of Jews (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 20, 2012, Wall Street Journal, May 1, 2012)
• May 2012: Khamenei reiterates destruction of Israel (Fars, May 20, 2012)
• Oct 2012: Quds rep: “24 hours and an excuse to destroy Israel” (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 2, 2012)
• Nov 2013: “Israeli regime doomed to failure” (Jerusalem Post, Nov. 13, 2013)
• July 2014: “We will arm Palestinians until Israel is wiped out” (Algemeiner, July 25, 2014)
• Nov 2014: “No cure for Israel except destruction” (Jerusalem Post, April 2, 2015)
• 2015: Khamenei publishes book on Israel’s annihilation (EU Reporter, Aug 3, 2015)
• July 2016: IRGC leader: missiles ready to destroy Israel ( JTA, via JPost, July 16, 2016)
• June 2017: Tehran "mirror clock" counting down Israel's existence (Times of Israel, June 23, 2017)
• April 2018: Khamenei: Israel must retreat to death’s brink (Ynet, Apr. 4, 2018)
• Jan 2019: Iranian Air Force ready to ‘eliminate Israel’ (Newsweek, Jan. 21, 2019)
• Sept 2019: Senior general vows to “destroy” Israel (Times of Israel, AP, Sep. 30, 2019)
• May 2020: “Final Solution” imagery (Newsweek, May 22, 2020, Ynet, May 20, 2020)
• Oct 2021: Khamenei rep calls for Israel’s destruction (Jerusalem Post, Oct. 2, 2021)
• Nov 2021: Iran urges Israel’s annihilation before nuclear talks (i24News, Nov 28, 2021)
• Dec 2021: Iran posts image of engulfing Israel in flames (Jerusalem Post, Dec. 19, 2021)
• In March 2022, the newspaper "Kayhan", the mouthpiece of the Iranian leader, declared that Israel's nuclear weapons will not prevent its destruction. (Jerusalem Center for Foreign and Security Affairs, Mar. 11, 2022)
• In April 2022, Khamenei's newspaper praises Hitler on Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Iran Wire, Apr. 28, 2023)
• April 2023: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said, “Iran will destroy Tel Aviv and Haifa with the smallest Israeli action.” (Jerusalem Post, Apr. 18, 2023)
• In June 2024, Iran threatens a "war of extermination" if Israel attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon. (Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2025)
• On June 16, 2025, Khamenei tweeted about the historic 'Khaybar' massacre while firing missiles at Israeli citizens. (JCPA, June 20, 2025; Iran International, June 17, 2025)
  On June 23, 2025, he claimed that the US intervened to prevent Israel's destruction. (JFeed, June 23, 2025).
• On July 12, 2025, an Iranian parliament aide posted an AI-generated image of a nuclear blast in Israel. (Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2025)