'The View' hosts have fierce clash over Middle East, Whoopi Goldberg compares U.S. to Iran

"The View" co-hosts clashed fiercely during a treatment astir the Middle East connected Wednesday arsenic co-host Whoopi Goldberg compared surviving successful the United States to Iran, receiving pushback from Alyssa Farah Griffin. 

"Let’s retrieve the Iranians propulsion cheery radical disconnected buildings. They don’t person basal quality rights," Griffin said, arsenic she and co-host Sara Haines argued they weren't going to "defend a violent nation," Iran.

The co-hosts discussed the struggle betwixt Israel and Iran arsenic warring betwixt the 2 continues. Co-host Sunny Hostin ripped Israel earlier during the treatment for preemptively striking Iran, calling the determination amerciable nether planetary law. Goldberg pushed backmost and invoked historical racism against Blacks successful the United States.

"Let’s not bash that, due to the fact that if we commencement with that, we person been known successful this state to necktie cheery folks to the car. Listen, I'm sorry, they utilized to conscionable support hanging Black people," Goldberg insisted arsenic Griffin pushed backmost and said the situations weren't comparable.

"The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg compares U.S. to Iran during fiery clash connected the ABC show.  (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)

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Griffin said, "In the twelvemonth 2025 successful the United States, is thing similar if I measurement ft wearing this outfit into Iran close now." 

"It is the same," Goldberg said. "Murdering idiosyncratic for their quality is not bully whoever does it." 

Griffin reiterated her constituent and repeated that surviving successful the U.S. successful 2025 was "very different" than surviving successful Iran. 

"Not if you're Black," Goldberg insisted and Hostin added, "not for everybody."

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Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin spar connected "The View" connected June 18, 2025. (ABC / Screenshot)

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Goldberg said that the U.S. was the top state successful the satellite but said radical were disquieted astir their kids being shot. 

"Nobody wants to diminish the precise existent problems we person successful this country. That's nary one's intention, but I deliberation it's important to retrieve that determination are places overmuch darker than this country, and radical who merit rights," Griffin said. 

Goldberg pushed backmost again and said, "Not everybody feels that way," earlier stating Black radical efficaciously weren't allowed to ballot until 1965. 

Smoke rises aft an detonation successful Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. Israel attacked Iran's superior aboriginal Friday, with explosions booming crossed Tehran. (Getty)

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"They don’t person escaped and just elections successful Iran. It’s not adjacent the aforesaid universe," Griffin argued. 

An exasperated Goldberg astatine 1 constituent said determination was nary mode for her to marque her recognize her argument. 

Hostin, who called retired Israel passim the exchange, said angrily astatine different point, "I privation to accidental this truthful that I don't get a clump of hatred mail."

"Criticism of the Israeli authorities is not antisemitic, okay? I’m criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu, I americium criticizing Israel. I’m not an antisemite. Under planetary transgression law, what is happening is present is not legal. That’s the bottommost line," she said.