Tucker Carlson claims Trump may be days away from a nuclear strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain under pressure from Netanyahu
The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group at sea in October, as the vessel steams towards the Middle East and is expected to bring total US forces in the region to more than 20,000 sailors and marines.
Tucker Carlson published a lengthy post on X claiming Netanyahu "calls Trump about it every day" pushing for a nuclear strike on Pickaxe Mountain, a site in central Iran Washington believes may host underground nuclear enrichment tunnels. Carlson argued conventional US weapons cannot penetrate the 300 feet of granite above the tunnels, making a nuclear strike the "only military option." Trump himself told a rally crowd on Sunday that the US would "have to give them the hammer" — but has separately stated he has ruled out nuclear weapons.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said peace talks through mediators are "very intensive," but Tehran privately believes renewed war is the more likely outcome.
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell rejected the Hegseth transparency claims, insisting operations in Iran represent "decisive success" and that Hegseth always gives Trump the "full operational picture."
A covert UANI investigation filmed an Iranian 'ghost fleet' tanker breaching the US naval blockade in September, with at least nine small vessels successfully smuggling sanctioned LPG to China since July.
