Tucker Carlson claims Saudi Arabia and Qatar 'arrested Mossad agents planning bombings'
US political commentator and journalist Tucker Carlson claimed on Monday that Saudi Arabiaand Qatar had caught and “arrested Israeli Mossad agents planning bombings in those countries”.
“Why would the Israelis be committing bombings in Gulf countries, which are also being attacked by Iran?” Carlson said on his show. “Aren’t they on the same side?”
“Israel wants to hurt Iran - and Qatar, and the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain, and Oman and Kuwait,” he added.
Carlson also alleged that Israel deliberately sows chaos among America’s Arab allies.
The American journalist did not cite a source for the claim, which Middle East Eye could not independently verify.
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In February, Israeli forces detained Carlson and members of his team shortly after he interviewed Washington’s ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.
In the interview, Huckabee stated that Jews have a “divine right” to colonise Palestinian land and denied Palestinian national identity.
The interview followed a public spat between the pair online after Carlson slammed Israel’s “shocking” treatment of Christians and accused Huckabee of failing to ensure protections for Christians who face attacks from Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and in Jerusalem.
In 2025, after he visited Palestinian refugees from Gaza in Qatar and accused Israel of murdering children, a pro-Israel advocacy group in the US named Carlson as its “Antisemite of the Year”, citing his opposition to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Ongoing US-Israeli attack
Carlson’s latest remarks come amid ongoing US and Israeli strikes on Iran, after the two countries launched a joint assault that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, several other senior officials and hundreds of civilians on Saturday.
Around 150 girls were killed in a strike on a school in southern Iran in the initial attacks.
Iran has retaliated by hitting American bases in the region and shutting down trade routes for oil.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it has targeted over 500 US and Israeli sites, using 700 drones and hundreds of missiles.
On Monday, a drone attack caused a “limited fire” at Saudi Arabia's Aramco oil refinery in Ras Tanura.
European gas prices soared almost 50 percent after Iranian strikes prompted Saudi Arabia to close its biggest oil refinery, and Qatar to halt the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Due to the tension, insurance providers have cancelled war-risk coverage for ships in the Persian Gulf.