{"id":332713,"date":"2026-11-04T07:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332713"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:58:14","slug":"tucker-says-trump-will-nuke-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=332713","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Says Trump Will Nuke Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Whitney \u2013 The Unz Review Nov 2, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran.<\/strong> The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one.<\/strong> \u201cBibi calls Trump about it every day,\u201d says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week\u2019s election results, he can\u2019t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war. Tucker Carlson<\/a><\/p>\n

We have to assume that both Trump and Netanyahu understand that another round of attacks on Iran using the same conventional weapons as last time will produce the same result. <\/strong>And since neither the US nor Israel have developed any new weapons systems that might produce a different outcome, we have to ask: What do they have in mind? After all, there is no rational reason to resume hostilities with Iran unless the US-Israel are planning to introduce some new element into the mix that would help them achieve their strategic objectives<\/strong>. But what might that be?<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one answer to that question: Nuclear weapons. They plan to use nukes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this point, I agree with Tucker. But where I disagree is on the matter of Pickax Mountain. I don\u2019t think Tucker has thought-through how the attack on Pickax is going to be used by Netanyahu to draw Trump into a bigger and more catastrophic conflict.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, yes, the US will nuke Pickax Mountain ostensibly to destroy parts of an undisclosed (and purely fictional) nuclear weapons program. But because all 13 US intelligence agencies have repeatedly confirmed that Iran has no nuclear weapons program, is not building a nuclear bomb, and was never found to be in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)\u2013 then we must assume that there is some other purpose for nuking Pickax<\/strong>. After all, why would they risk international isolation to nuke a facility the intel agencies have already said poses no national security threat to the US or Israel?<\/p>\n

They wouldn\u2019t. Therefore, we should assume that nuking Pickax serves a different purpose altogether. But what would that be?<\/p>\n

Once the bomb is dropped, Iran will swing into action launching attacks on all the targets across the region it has already specified including critical energy infrastructure, desalination plants, IT and data centers, communications and transportation hubs, and nuclear reactors in Israel (Dimona). Iranian officials have warned that they will have \u201cno red lines\u201d in their retaliation. And this, I think, is what Netanyahu is counting on; he\u2019s counting on a large enough response from Iran to claim that Israel faces an \u201cexistential threat\u201d that must be countered with nuclear weapons.<\/strong> In other words, the nuking of Pickax Mt is not \u2018an end in itself\u2019, but a calibrated provocation designed to justify the annihilation of Iran.<\/strong> The fact is, it will require multiple nuclear bombs to obliterate a country the size of Iran, so Trump must be persuaded to deliver the first blow (thus, breaking the 80-year-long taboo) while Israel follows with numerous other strategic (nuclear) strikes. This is how Netanyahu intends to achieve his lifelong ambition of destroying Iran while making Israel the de facto regional hegemon.<\/p>\n

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Colby\u2019s Usable Nukes <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Did you know that Elbridge Colby<\/strong> \u2013Trump\u2019s Under Secretary of Defense for Policy\u2013 who was the primary architect of Trump\u2019s 2018 National Defense Strategy, is also an ardent supporter of <\/strong>\u201climited nuclear war\u201d?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s right, Trump\u2019s \u201cNuclear Doctrine\u201d is entrusted to an ideologue who thinks there should be \u201ccredible, rational, limited options\u201d (for the use of nuclear weapons) so the president is not forced into a binary choice between inaction and massive strategic retaliation in a regional conflict.\u201d That\u2019s an impressive airbrushing of Colby\u2019s position, but what it really means is that (under Colby) the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons has been lowered making a nuclear attack on Iran much more likely<\/strong>. Here\u2019s a post by military analyst Will Schryver:<\/p>\n

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The notorious #EmpireEvangelist Elbridge Colby has advocated for years for the use of tactical nuclear weapons to reestablish US deterrence in the world. If the Trump White House is now seriously considering such madness, Colby is the primary reason why. https:\/\/t.co\/OHnk70wgfU<\/p>\n

\u2014 Will Schryver (@imetatronink) October 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n