Auburn's Bruce Pearl maintains Trump 'wants peace,' US isn't at war with Iran

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Auburn Tigers men’s hoops caput manager Bruce Pearl fired disconnected a reminder to his followers aft President Donald Trump announced the U.S. subject had struck 3 Iranian atomic sites.

Pearl, who is the president of U.S. Israel Education Association on with his duties arsenic a assemblage hoops coach, thanked God for protecting U.S. troops arsenic they made the daring formation implicit Iran to weaponry its atomic facilities and wrote that the U.S. is not astatine warfare with Iran.

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Head manager Bruce Pearl of the Auburn Tigers reacts during signifier up of the archetypal and 2nd rounds of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament astatine Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena connected March 21, 2024, successful Spokane, Washington. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

"Thank you God for your extortion implicit our troops. We are not astatine warfare with Iran, we are astatine warfare with Iran's subject atomic program," Pearl wrote connected X. "The President wants peace, present the shot is successful the tribunal of the Iranian leadership. Iran’s violent scope has been diminished but inactive present."

Pearl has been a staunch protagonist of Israel, and his dependable successful his enactment has grown since Hamas’ panic attacks connected the federation connected Oct. 7, 2023.

Earlier successful the week, helium expressed enactment for the president arsenic helium weighed imaginable strikes connected Iran.

"We tin spell backmost and speech astir 1982 successful Lebanon and each those U.S. Marines that were murdered," helium said connected OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich." "We tin speech astir Oct. 7, wherever 45 Americans were killed. And they abducted, you know, six oregon 7 much and executed them earlier Israel rescued them. 

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March 19, 2025; Lexington, KY: Auburn caput manager Bruce Pearl speaks with the media during NCAA Tournament First Round Practice astatine Rupp Arena. (Aaron Doster-Imagn Images)

"This has been going connected since 1979, and it is astir to go a safer place, a non-nuclear Iran. And without having the wealth to beryllium capable to bash what they person been doing, the satellite is going to beryllium a safer place."

"If the Middle East gets safer and stronger, look astatine what a dynamic state Israel is. Look astatine each the unicorns that are there. Look astatine each the precocious tech and development. Look astatine each the wealth. If you began to dispersed that to immoderate of these different Middle Eastern countries, who are they going to spouse with? The United States? Russia? China? It’s going to beryllium the U.S., due to the fact that Donald Trump has led the mode to make bid and prosperity for everybody successful the region."

President Donald J. Trump successful  The Situation Room, June 21, 2025

President Donald J. Trump successful The Situation Room, June 21, 2025 (The White House via X)

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Trump announced successful a station connected Truth Social that the U.S. subject had "completed our precise palmy attack" connected the Iranian facilities. The U.S. targeted Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. He wrote that U.S. craft had dropped a "full payload of BOMBS" connected the atomic installations.

Fox News’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.

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