Joy Reid compares LGBTQ rights in US to Iran, defends terror regime

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid sparked controversy during a CNN panel discussion on the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, where she defended Iran and criticized the United States on issues including foreign policy and LGBT-related topics.

Reid argued that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons and suggested that Israel’s recent strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities are proof of that.

"The bottom line here is the way that we know that Iran did not have nuclear weapons is that if they had nuclear weapons, Israel would not attack them,” Reid claimed. “The reason they’re trying to get nukes, and probably Saudi Arabia is trying to get them, is because an expansionist power in their region keeps threatening them and actually bombs them," Reid said.
 

Joy Reid: “The United States is not exactly a beacon of human rights for gay people.”

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