Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur is the founder and host of The Young Turks, a progressive political news show.
Circuit updated July 16, 2026
- Cenk Uygur says Israel blocks an Iran peace deal every time Trump moves toward peace
“Open up the straight of Hormuz. We lift a blockade. Iran says uh we'll find the highlyenriched uranium and hand it over. We won't have a weapons program and we'll have international monitors for the uranium that we enrich to just energy levels, not weapons levels. Boom. Done. Easy.” 2:42
- Cenk Uygur says Israel gave America a list of seven countries to attack after 9/11
“they literally gave us a list after 9/11 of seven countries they wanted us to attack on their behalf. We have attacked all seven. Iran was the last one on that list.” 6:35
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“Open up the straight of Hormuz. We lift a blockade. Iran says uh we'll find the highlyenriched uranium and hand it over. We won't have a weapons program and we'll have international monitors for the uranium that we enrich to just energy levels, not weapons levels. Boom. Done. Easy.”
Cenk Uygur · The Diary of a CEO -
“after every call with Netanyahu, Trump goes from saying we're going to have peace to saying we're not going to have peace and we're have these new impossible standards. It's happened about half a dozen times so far. It's super clear that Israel is driving the bus.”
Cenk Uygur · The Diary of a CEO -
“this weekend, we had both Republicans and Democrats go out and say we shouldn't do the peace deal. You want to know what the one connective tissue? Every one of those politicians had over a million dollars given to them by the Israeli lobby.”
Cenk Uygur · The Diary of a CEO -
“they literally gave us a list after 9/11 of seven countries they wanted us to attack on their behalf. We have attacked all seven. Iran was the last one on that list.”
Cenk Uygur · The Diary of a CEO -
“Disaster. A positive disaster. So, there's no way we're going to get to peace because Israel says their line in the sand is they're going to keep attacking Lebanon.”
Cenk Uygur · The Diary of a CEO -
“100% Israeli interest, 0% American interest. Let's get out of there. Let's stop fighting Israel's wars for them and come back home.”
Cenk Uygur · The Diary of a CEO
Cenk Uygur says Israel blocks an Iran peace deal every time Trump moves toward peace
On The Diary of a CEO, Uygur argued that Trump has a deal available with Iran, but Benjamin Netanyahu keeps pushing him back toward war.
Cenk Uygur says Israel gave America a list of seven countries to attack after 9/11
The Young Turks host turns a Diary of a CEO Iran debate into a blunt accusation about U.S. foreign policy, while Kevin O'Leary argues the real issue is stopping Iran from getting a bomb.