Megyn Kelly: The goal for Iran war changed from “it’s about the missiles” to “Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon” to “we got to do regime change” to get the uranium
Kelly: “It just keeps moving”
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Megyn Kelly: The goal for Iran war changed from "it’s about the missiles" to "Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon" to "we got to do regime change" to get the uranium
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From the March 30, 2026, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Well, is there a way that Trump if, you know — since the new talking — literally we’re four months in — four weeks into this war, and this is the first we’ve heard about we’re going to go in and just get the uranium, right? We haven’t — that is new.
It changed from, oh, no it’s about the missiles, we got to get rid of those missiles. OK, Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon. That was stated broadly. We got to do regime change because the ayatollah’s bad. It just keeps moving. But now today, thanks to Mark Levin, we’re talking about uranium. He magically comes up with this idea the same day the president tells us to watch his show, and then coincidentally, The Wall Street Journal drops a big piece on how that’s a new possibility for us.
ROBERT PAPE (GUEST): Can we just talk about that one piece, Megyn, before we go into something else?
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KELLY: Yeah, yeah. Well, that’s my question. Can we — is that possible? We just get in, get the uranium, and get out, and declare it a win?
PAPE: No. It’s not possible we do that, but I'd like to just — and I’ll explain why it’s not possible, but I also want to just build on something else.
I understand that Mark Levin just is now speaking about this, but a month ago, in my first live briefing on the Substack, I explained what was the thing sucking us here. It was that enriched uranium. Whether President Trump was talking about this publicly or not, that doesn’t real — that’s again not following the actual signal that's occurring here. When we bombed Fordow, we destroyed the industrial part of the enrichment. We did not get the nuclear material, the enriched uranium.
In my modeling of the bombing of Fordow for 20 years, that would always be stage one, and that would lead to a bombing campaign a whole year later, a whole year later for regime change. Why would that happen? Because we would panic what would happen with that enriched uranium.
You’re right. Netanyahu’s probably whispering in Trump’s ear or louder than that: They’re doing bad things with that enriched uranium. We have some civilian satellite photography of Iranians moving some of what appears to be that enriched uranium in the meantime. This is — so it’s not — it’s not just Mark Levin. I just want to point out this is what I think has really been driving the regime-change bombing.
And now the regime-change bombing hasn’t produced any real meaningful results. It’s made the matter worse. So now is why you're getting the ground options. And I believe that this too is going to be — it would be — it’s going to be like the hunt for WMD in Iraq.