Auburn's Bruce Pearl Backs Trump During Israel-iran Conflict: 'the World Is Going To Be A Safer Place'

Auburn Tigers men’s hoops caput coach Bruce Pearl said successful support of President Donald Trump Wednesday arsenic his management continued to measurement imaginable U.S. engagement successful nan ongoing conflict betwixt Israel and Iran. 

The accomplished coach, who has been outspoken successful his support of Israel since Hamas' October 2023 panic attacks, addressed nan rumor during an quality connected OutKick’s "Don’t @ maine pinch Dan Dakich."

Auburn Tigers caput coach Bruce Pearl reacts against nan Georgia Bulldogs astatine Stegeman Coliseum Jan. 18, 2025. (Dale Zanine/Imagn Images)

He explained that he believes nan U.S. has immoderate level of liking considering its history pinch Iran.

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"We tin spell backmost and talk astir 1982 successful Lebanon and each those U.S. Marines that were murdered. We tin talk astir Oct. 7, wherever 45 Americans were killed. And they abducted, you know, six aliases 7 much and executed them earlier Israel rescued them. 

"This has been going connected since 1979, and it is astir to go a safer place, a non-nuclear Iran. And without having nan money to beryllium capable to do what they person been doing, nan world is going to beryllium a safer place," he added. 

"If nan Middle East gets safer and stronger, look astatine what move state Israel is. Look astatine each nan unicorns that are there. Look astatine each nan precocious tech and development. Look astatine each nan wealth. If you began to dispersed that to immoderate of these different Middle Eastern countries, who are they going to partner with? The United States, Russia, China? It’s going to beryllium nan U.S. because Donald Trump has led nan measurement to create bid and prosperity for everybody successful nan region." 

President Donald Trump called for a bid woody betwixt Iran and Israel, urging them to "make nan Middle East Great again" successful a Truth Social station Sunday, June 15, 2025.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

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The president was noncommittal connected nan anticipation of subject involution erstwhile speaking to reporters extracurricular nan White House Wednesday, saying that subject strikes targeting Iran's atomic sites have not been ruled retired entirely.

"Yes, I whitethorn do it. I whitethorn not do it. I mean, cipher knows what I'm going to do. I tin show you this, that Iran's sewage a batch of trouble, and they want to negotiate," Trump said. "And I said, 'Why didn't you discuss pinch maine earlier each this decease and destruction? Why didn't you go?' I said to people, 'Why didn't you discuss pinch maine 2 weeks ago? You could person done fine. You would person had a country.' It's very sad to watch this."

President Donald Trump speaks pinch reporters while flying aboard Air Force One en way from Calgary, Canada, to Joint Base Andrews, Md., precocious Monday, June 16, 2025.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Trump has pushed Iran to motion a atomic agreement, but talks betwixt nan 2 scheduled for Sunday were called disconnected aft Iran withdrew days earlier. While nan Trump management weighs its options, Iran has said nan U.S. entering nan conflict would mean an "all-out war."

Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy and Connor McGahan contributed to this report. 

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