Former Fox News host and conservative host Tucker Carlson has made an explosive claim on Sunday night about Donald Trump and Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s next course of action in Iran. Nearly 24 hours since the post first hit X, it remains a major point of discussion, especially with the midterm elections being just days ahead.
Tucker Carlson claimed that Trump and Netanyahu are allegedly planning a nuclear strike in Iran’s Pickax Mountain “here Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. Carlson’s own interview in March with former National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent was revealing. Asked whether Iran had been on the verge of acquiring a nuclear weapon, Kent replied: “No, they weren’t three weeks ago when this started, and they weren’t in June either.
Israeli intelligence believes that the alleged uranium enrichment program in Pickax Mountain is located in tunnels under a layer of 300 feet of solid granite, according to Carlson. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported on October 29 that US has already communicated to its allies in the Middle East to prepare for an offensive on Iran.
The only way to penetrate is a nuclear strike and Carlson says Netanyahu is calling Trump “about it every day. The sources, mostly US officials cited in the CNN report, said it was more a matter of when and not if Trump will greenlight the “big effort” in Iran. The AP sources also said that the attacks could likely take place after the US midterm elections. At least according to Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News host and penitent Trump loyalist, who says the U.S President may be hours away from ordering a nuclear strike on Iran under pressure from Benjamin Netanyahu. The target, according to Carlson, is Pickaxe Mountain, a heavily fortified underground complex near Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. Earlier reporting noted: “Bibi (Netanyahu) calls Trump about it every day,” Carlson quoted an “informed observer” as saying in a lengthy post on X, claiming that the Israeli PM is “cornered and desperate” after last week’s election results, and he can’t form a government unless Trump helps him. “The only military option is a nuclear strike,” Carlson wrote, alleging that the Trump administration has quietly rewritten the U.S nuclear doctrine since February to make battlefield nuclear weapons easier to use. ” He also said there was no intelligence indicating that Iran was about to abandon its policy against developing nuclear weapons.
Earlier reporting noted: TOI Correspondent From Washington: Somewhere in Washington DC, the nuclear clock is apparently ticking. Earlier reporting noted: Still, U.S hardliners have been raising the prospect of an imminent nuclear confrontation with Iran for months, repeatedly drumming up the bogey of Tehran acquiring nuclear weapons within weeks or months.
