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Rogan again slams US war with Iran: ‘All of it’s terrifying’

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by Sophie Brams - 04/16/26 6:49 PM ET

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Podcaster Joe Rogan is not letting up on his criticism of the joint U.S.-Israel conflict in Iran, commenting during his show on Thursday that he found the situation “terrifying.”

“It’s f—ing terrifying,” Rogan responded after actor David Cross asked about his opinion on the war. “All of it’s terrifying. Any time you’re involved with — you’re shooting missiles into towns and blowing things up, blowing up infrastructure, blowing up bridges — you know, and Israel’s blowing up Lebanon now.

“It’s like, what the f— are we doing? Like, how is this still going on?” he added.

“It’s also clear there was no plan. Zero, none,” Cross chimed in. He said moments later that he thought the U.S. was “in a worse place now than before this thing started,” referencing President Trump’s first-term decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018.

Both said that Iran’s regime was “terrible,” condemning its brutal treatment of protesters, but echoed an argument made by some conservatives that military intervention abroad departs from Trump’s campaign promises.

“Most people that voted for Trump or wanted Trump to be in office, one of the things that was attractive was this, no more wars,” Rogan said. “Now we’re in one of the craziest ones.”

Rogan, who endorsed Trump a day before the 2024 presidential election, has become more critical of the president since the start of the president’s second term, pushing back against the U.S. strikes in the Middle East and the administration’s immigration enforcement tactics.

He previously described the president’s decision to launch initial strikes as confusing and warned that it risked drawing the U.S. into a wider conflict.

“I’m confused. I can’t believe we went to this war. When we started bombing Iran, I was like, ‘This can’t be true,’” Rogan said during a podcast with Theo Von earlier this month.

Time is winding down on a fragile, two-week ceasefire reached by the U.S. and Iran last week. Negotiations in Islamabad collapsed over the weekend, with U.S. and Iranian officials unable to reach an agreement on the future of the country’s nuclear program.

Vice President Vance, who is leading the U.S. delegation alongside special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said during an interview on Monday that the “ball is in the Iranian court” when it comes to a long-term deal to end hostilities.

“Whether we have further conversations, whether we ultimately get to a deal, I really think the ball is in the Iranian court because we put a lot on the table,” Vance said. “We actually made very clear what our red lines were.”

The Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday that a second round of talks was in the works, but no date has been solidified.

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