Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. 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. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer. Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t 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
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. 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. But what might that be?
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