Whoopi Goldberg insisted that life in the United States is just as brutal as living under the Iranian regime in a heated argument with her “View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin.
“We have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car,” Goldberg shouted at Griffin on Wednesday’s episode of the ABC show. “Listen, I’m sorry. They used to just keep hanging black people.”
“It is the same,” she added, comparing the US to the Middle Eastern country headed by tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The political strategist immediately shut down Goldberg’s comments — noting that the US in the year 2025 is “nothing” like today’s state of Iran.
“It is not even the same. I couldn’t step foot wearing this outfit in Tehran right now,” Griffin said, referring to the capital of Iran — where women are required by law to wear a hijab.
Griffin, 36, further argued that she would not be permitted to show her hair or arms and she wouldn’t be allowed to wear a skirt, as these offenses have been punishable by death by the IRGC’s cruel morality police.
“That’s why I’m saying that it is the same,” Goldberg doubled down. “Murdering someone for their difference is not good, whoever does it. It’s not good.”
When Griffin repeated that living in the current US is not the same as the state of Iran, the “Sister Act” star hit back, “Not if you’re black.”
Griffin disagreed with Goldberg, telling her co-stars, “No one at this table should go to Tehran.”
Goldberg, 69, admitted that the US is “the greatest country in the world” but pointed out the constant fear that black Americans live with each day.
“Every day we are worried. Do we have to be worried about our kids? Are our kids gonna get shot because they’re running through somebody’s neighborhood?” she asked.
Griffin understood where Goldberg was coming from, telling her that she doesn’t want to “diminish” the “very real problems” some US citizens experience.
“But I think it’s important we remember there are places much darker than this country and people who deserve rights,” Griffin said.
Goldberg interrupted her by explaining that not everyone would agree with her and brought up the fact that black people couldn’t vote in the US until 1965.
“They don’t have free and fair elections in Iran,” Griffin fired back. “It’s not even the same universe.”
Goldberg threw in the towel, saying that Griffin would never “understand” what she was trying to communicate.
Their co-host Joy Behar swooped in to try and mediate by telling Griffin to put herself in the shoes of a black person in the US.
“Just try to understand, from their point of view, this country does not do them well,” Behar said.
While Griffin said she “completely” acknowledges her point, she still feels that living in Iran is “significantly worse” than living in the US.
The feud ended with Goldberg telling viewers that they would “come back to this” before the segment cut to a commercial.
Golddberg’s heated debate with Griffin comes amid Iran’s escalating war with Israel after the Jewish state conducted a series of preemptive airstrikes in light of the regime’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
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