Trump Prepares To Strike Iranian Nuclear Sites – Hard

And he should do it sooner rather than later. The stars have totally aligned providing the best opportunity in decades to decapitate the Iranian terror regime and destroy its nuclear weapons program.

With Israel’s dismantling of Iran’s terror proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, and partially neutralizing Tehran’s air defenses, not to mention stronger U.S. sanctions and now the pummeling of Iran’s last terror proxy, the Houthis, the Iranian regime is struggling to respond, even as it ramps up its nuclear program and defies U.S. offers to negotiate.

In a surprising move, Iran has reportedly ordered its forces to back off from supporting the Houthi rebels, abandoning their proxy on the battlefield amid increasing U.S. strikes and Trump’s vow to hold Iran directly accountable for “every shot” the Houthis fire.

As noted, Israeli military operations over the past year have systematically dismantled Iran’s two major proxies, reducing Tehran’s ability to retaliate.

The campaign in Lebanon has neutralized Hezbollah’s missile threat, and the Gaza offensive has crippled Hamas. Meanwhile, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has left Iran without its strongest regional ally.

An Israeli military source explained: “We had to remove all obstacles before considering a direct strike on Iran. We have done that.”

This is the time to strike.

And President Trump and his team seem to agree. The U.S. is pouring military assets into the Middle East, including to carrier strike groups, F-35 stealth fighters, and a lot of B-2 stealth bombers on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, as Trump’s deadline for Iran to come to the negotiating table fast approaches.

Trump himself signaled the impending escalation earlier this week, declaring, “If they [Iran] don’t make a deal, there will be bombing… the likes of which they have never seen before.”

As The War Zone (TWZ) just explained, we don’t know if Trump will give the order to strike, but if Iran doesn’t come to the table, he should:

For the Trump administration, the catalyst for the buildup is the matured state of Iran’s nuclear program, which, by most accounts, could break out into a nuclear weapons program at any moment if Tehran were to decide to go that route. Any buffer time in this regard seems to have dwindled to nothing. But also orbiting around that issue is the totality of many other long-standing problems the United States has with Iran, some of which date back five decades. The threat it poses to Israel is center stage, especially for the Trump administration, as are its destabilizing actions in the Middle East through its proxy forces. It’s also personal. Iran has reportedly wanted to assassinate Trump, even going so far as to suggest a drone strike against him while he is golfing.

So, could an attack on Iran really happen in the near term? After all these decades of very uneasy restraint, is Trump going to follow through with his May deadline to get the regime in Tehran to come to the negotiating table over its nuclear program? And if that line is crossed without meaningful action on Iran’s part, is the United States really going to get rid of Iran’s nuclear program via unprecedented force? This is a military operation that has been avoided at all costs for decades, largely due to the massive ramifications it could have in the region and beyond.

I don’t think anyone knows the answer to these questions. Maybe not even Trump. But at this point, it seems very apparent that he at least wants the Iranian government to believe that will be the case. Brinkmanship on this level is a very risky game, especially as it is occurring in parallel with attempting a peace deal in Ukraine and as China accelerates its preparations to take Taiwan via military force. If Trump doesn’t follow through with his threat, his hand will become vastly weaker in those other very high-stakes geopolitical confrontations. This may put him in a very tough position, especially considering his persistent declarations of being a vehemently anti-war president who avoids getting America involved in foreign conflicts.

If Trump does strike Iran, the most probable operation would use tailored airpower to target Iran’s most critical nuclear sites, likely with Israeli support. But this could be complemented by special operations forces also striking at strategic targets.

Most intriguing is the use of B-2 bombers from Diego Garcia which are uniquely capable of carrying precision GBU-57, America’s largest non-nuclear weapon, dubbed the “Father of All Bombs.”  The GBU-57 is America’s largest non-nuclear bomb. Weighing 30,000 pounds, the GBU-57 is also among the largest non-nuclear bombs ever made in the world.

And it’s been updated to be even more effective.

As one observer notes in the National Interest, its massive size and weight alone distinguish it from other munitions, but its true value lies in its ability to bore at least 200 feet deep underground before detonating, hence its official name, Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).

In that role, the GBU-57 has displaced the smaller—but far more famous—Massive Ordnance Air Blast, a huge thermobaric device popularly known as the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB).

Amassing six to seven B-2s at Diego Garcia, each with the capacity to carry two of these GBU-57s onboard, shows that the Trump team is seriously considering bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities. Let’s hope he takes advantage of this unique opportunity and does it.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.

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