…to Trump’s last attack on Iran which he knew was
being carried out on behalf of the Zionist state of
Israel—a rogue nation which Charlie was becoming progressively wary of.

Ian Ward is a staff writer for POLITICO Magazine.
As the Trump administration considers taking military action against Iran, a surprising figure is emerging as the voice of MAGA’s anti-interventionist faction: the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Online, major MAGA figures who oppose renewed hostilities in the Middle East have been digitally resurrecting Kirk, resurfacing old posts in which the conservative activist bluntly objected to the prospect of a war with Iran. Last week, the commentator and close Kirk ally Jack Posobiec posted a short clip from Kirk’s show last June, in which Kirk pointedly questioned the wisdom of a “regime change” war in Iran: “So we are just going to take out the ayatollah? Oh really! What next? What happens after regime change?”
In a similar vein, Republican Senate candidate Mark Lynch, who is running against incumbent Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, recently resurfaced a clip of Kirk criticizing Graham for his hawkish position, calling war with Iran “a weird, fanatical obsession” that would be “destructive to our own country.”
Meanwhile, several pro-Trump accounts have reposted one of Kirk’s more direct warnings about war with Iran, made on social media in the days before the U.S. bombed Iranian nuclear facilities last June: “Keep the pressure up. Regime change in Iran would be a catastrophe.
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/02/24/charlie-kirk-iran-regime-change-maga-00795774?