Iran will target US military after Trump promises to use bunker busters on them

President Donald Trump has drawn a very clear red line in the sand with Iran, and the clock is ticking fast.

In his State of the Union address, the president made it crystal clear that he will not let the world's top state sponsor of terrorism [you know it as Iran] get its hands on a nuclear weapon.

"I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror … to have a nuclear weapon," Trump told a joint session of Congress.

This comes after he publicly laid down a tight deadline back on February 19, giving Tehran roughly 10 to 15 days to cut a real deal. 

"I would think that would be enough time, 10, 15 days, pretty much maximum," Trump said at the time, adding that without an agreement, "it's going to be unfortunate for them."

Tuesday night from the House floor, he ramped up the pressure, confirming talks are happening but noting Iran still hasn't uttered the magic words he demands.

"We are in negotiations with them," Trump said. "They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: 'We will never have a nuclear weapon.'"

He also took a moment to flash back to the decisive 2025 U.S. strike, Operation Midnight Hammer, which he said "obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program."

Tehran got the message loud and clear after that hit: don't even think about rebuilding. Yet here we are, with Iran apparently trying to restart the whole thing.

This mix of a hard diplomatic timer and a blunt reminder of American military muscle signals a more intense phase in this standoff, especially as negotiations grind on in Geneva.

Trump hasn't spelled out exactly what comes next if Iran blows off his terms, but he told reporters earlier this month that if no solid deal happens, "bad things will happen," and he's weighing additional moves.

With the SOTU in the books and the deadline already rolling, the next few days could decide if we get a breakthrough on the nuclear front or if things head toward serious confrontation in the Middle East.

Backing up the tough talk is the biggest show of U.S. naval power in the region since the 2003 Iraq invasion.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the most advanced carrier in the fleet, pulled into Souda Bay, Crete, on Monday. It links up with the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been running around-the-clock flight ops in the Arabian Sea since late January.

Together, these strike groups give the U.S. 14 major warships, including nine Arleigh Burke-class destroyers loaded with Tomahawk missiles.

Adding to the firepower, twelve F-22 Raptor stealth fighters landed at Ovda Airbase in southern Israel.

As national security analyst Joe Funderburke pointed out in Small Wars Journal, "The F-22 is not a simple show-of-force aircraft. It is designed to suppress enemy air defenses and protect penetrating strike platforms like the B-2 Spirit bomber, the same combination used to devastate Iran’s deeply buried nuclear facilities at Fordow and Natanz nine months ago."

Trump's shout-out to Operation Midnight Hammer, where B-2 bombers dropped those massive 30,000-pound bunker busters, basically serves as the playbook for whatever might follow this deadline.

While the 2025 strike was a clean, surgical surprise, the current force posture points to something potentially much wider, given Iran's threats of a strong counterpunch.

After Midnight Hammer, Iran's reaction stayed pretty restrained, and they had some forewarning. This time around, Tehran is vowing a much harder response and claiming any U.S. troops in the region are fair game.

On top of the nuclear squeeze, Trump highlighted the brutal crackdown on recent protests in Iran.

"Just over the last couple of months with the protests, they’ve killed at least, it looks like, 32,000 protesters — 32,000 protesters in their own country," the president said. "They shot them and hung them."

Team Trump has made it plain: any deal means Iran stops all uranium enrichment cold and gives ironclad, verifiable proof the program can't come back, demands the regime has shot down repeatedly.

Both sides seem convinced the other is bluffing.

Trump is selling this window as the last real shot at diplomacy, backed by unmatched force. Iranian leaders keep brushing off the threats and promising massive retaliation against U.S. forces and allies if attacked.

Even so, U.S. and Iranian teams are set to sit down again in Geneva on Thursday. The stakes couldn't be higher.

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Trump’s Iran Strike Claims Under Fire: Leaked Report Questions “Total Obliteration” of Nuclear Sites

The Trump administration is scrambling to spin a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) report that pours cold water on President Donald Trump’s bold claim that U.S. airstrikes “completely and totally obliterated” three Iranian nuclear facilities, like never before in the history of airstrikes. The report, splashed across CNN and The New York Times, suggests the strikes, part of Operation Midnight Hammer, only set Iran’s nuclear program back by a few months, not the knockout blow Trump touted.

In a national address right after the strikes, Trump didn’t hold back, [does he ever?] declaring the sites at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan “completely and totally obliterated.” He doubled down Saturday, calling the operation “very successful” and insisting Iran’s nuclear enrichment capabilities were toast. But the DIA’s assessment, based on a U.S. Central Command battle damage report, says otherwise, claiming Iran’s stash of enriched uranium survived the onslaught, according to seven sources briefed on the findings.

The administration is now in full damage-control mode, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth dismissing the DIA report as “low confidence.” That’s Pentagon-speak for “we don’t have enough data to be sure,” a point echoed by experts. 

“Low confidence means the analyst is not sure of the accuracy of their assessment,” said retired Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, now a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “This is frequent with a Quick Look 24-hour assessment like this one.”

Montgomery’s colleague, piled on, noting that “low confidence assessments are usually issued when key facts have yet to be verified, which certainly applies in this case.” Translation: the DIA report might be more of a rough draft than a definitive verdict.

But the skepticism isn’t just coming from the leaked report. Experts are cautioning against snap judgments, both optimistic or pessimistic. 

Dan Shapiro, former U.S. ambassador to Israel and now with the Atlantic Council, told Fox News Digital that early assessments, like the DIA’s, likely rely on satellite imagery alone. “That’s one piece of the puzzle of how you would really make this assessment,” Shapiro said. “You’d really want to have to test all the other streams of intelligence, from signals intelligence, human intelligence, other forms of monitoring the site, potentially visits by International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, potentially visits by other people. So that’s going to take days to weeks to get a real assessment.”

Still, Shapiro’s not entirely bearish. “But I think it’s likely that if the munitions performed as expected, that significant damage was done, and would set back the program significantly,” he added.

Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tried to thread the needle Sunday, saying initial battle damage assessments showed “all three sites sustained extremely severe damage and destruction” but admitted a final verdict would “take some time.” That’s a far cry from Trump’s chest-thumping.

The strikes, which followed escalating Israel-Iran tensions, dropped serious firepower, over 14 30,000-lb. bombs, according to Rob Greenway, a former Trump National Security Council deputy assistant now at The Heritage Foundation. 

Greenway says the sheer volume of ordnance means the facilities are likely “no longer serviceable.” “We were putting twice the amount of ordnance required to achieve the desired effect, just to make sure that we didn’t have to go back,” he told Fox News Digital. “There’s virtually no mathematical probability in which either facility can be used again by Iran for the intended purpose, if at all, which again means that everything now is within Israel’s capability to strike if that’s required.”

But assessing the damage isn’t straightforward. Greenway noted the strikes targeted underground facilities, which complicates things. “Each of these are one piece of a much larger puzzle, and you’re trying to gauge the ultimate effect of the entirety of the puzzle, not just one particular strike,” he said. Add in Israel’s prior strikes on the same sites, and it’s a messy intelligence jigsaw puzzle that could take “one or two months” to piece together with higher confidence.

Michael Allen, a former National Security Council senior director under George W. Bush, said the intelligence picture will get “richer” soon. “Stuff is pouring in, and we’re out there collecting it, and they’re trying to hustle it to the White House as soon as possible,” he said.

Meanwhile, the White House is as angry as a bag of cats about the leak. 

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the leaker “irresponsible” and vowed the FBI would hunt them down. “That person was irresponsible with it,” Leavitt told reporters Thursday. “And we need to get to the bottom of it. And we need to strengthen that process to protect our national security and protect the American public.”

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, weighing in on Fox News’ Special Report, outlined the broader impact of Operation Midnight Hammer on the Middle East, but the real question is whether Trump’s victory lap was premature. For now, the administration’s battling a narrative that its big win might not be as big as advertised, and it’s got a leaked report to thank for the headache.

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Classified Report That Suggested Iranian Nuclear Program Still Intact Likely Relied on Faulty Info From Iranian Sources, Former Intel Officers Sa

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s super-secret report claiming Iran’s nuclear sites took a mere flesh wound from U.S. strikes is a steaming pile of bad intel, peddled by Iranian liars and lapped up by a gullible DIA, according to a cadre of ex-spooks. One of them didn’t mince words: the document’s so worthless, “you can wipe your ass with it.” He wasn't specific as to which ass he was referring to, but Jasmine Crockett is high on the list.

When President Trump green-lit precision strikes on Iran’s top three nuclear facilities, the DIA’s classified assessment sparked a media circus. Leaked to CNN and the New York Times, it was hyped as a shocking reveal that the U.S. bombing only delayed Tehran’s nuclear dreams by a few months, because the leftist media seems to hate Trump more than they hate our enemies.

Cue the headlines, cue the hand-wringing.

But the report was “low-confidence,” a detail CNN conveniently refused to mention, built on shaky satellite imagery and intercepted Iranian chatter, or SIGINT. It turns out, those intercepts were likely Tehran’s military feeding BS to their own leaders, downplaying the carnage, per Axios. That dodgy information wormed its way into the DIA’s report, say three former U.S. intel operatives, a current official, and other natsec vets who dished to the Washington Free Beacon, some off the record. They weren’t kind, calling the DIA the “discount intelligence agency.”

“It’s basically messaging by the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], messaging by Tehran,” said Michael Pregent, a former intel officer with nearly three decades in the Middle East. “DIA is taking a SIGINT report from the National Security Agency ... and putting together an assessment to leak. I know it’s messaging, the Iranians know it’s messaging, and for some reason, NSA believes it’s actual f**king intelligence.”

A current U.S. official, in the loop on the damage assessments, said the DIA’s take, and CNN’s “partisan hit job,” got “completely debunked” in the last 24 hours, including by the International Atomic Energy Agency. “It has now been established by the IAEA that Iran’s nuclear program suffered ‘enormous damage’ and the ‘centrifuges ... are completely destroyed,’” the official told the Free Beacon. “The military operation carried out by the United States was a huge success and we are grateful to our troops who valiantly carried out the president’s mission.”

CIA boss John Ratcliffe piled on, saying the agency’s “historically reliable and accurate source/method” confirmed Iran’s key nuclear sites were obliterated, facing years of rebuilding.

Another former spy called the DIA’s report “embarrassing,” saying its analysts didn’t have a clue about Fordow, Iran’s mountain bunker buried under 300 feet of concrete. “You’re not going to see a huge hole down to Hell,” the guy said, speaking on background. “You’re not going to see that they dropped these bombs in specific locations so that they would detonate well underground, because it was such a deeply buried facility.”

The source added: “It’s clear that those people had no idea what they were talking about, and I agree with the fact that undoubtedly all these [Iranians] knew their phones were being monitored by multiple countries and acted accordingly. So, nothing that they said should have been used as any sort of gospel.”

Unless you're the former newspaper NY Times or CNN. They simply cannot allow Trump to prevail.

The DIA’s own “low-confidence” label makes the report a laughingstock. “The fact that the DIA’s assessment was deemed ‘low-confidence’ means that you can wipe your ass with it,” the ex-operative quipped. “You probably get more information from a Free Beacon article,” [or IKEA instructions].

A third former official, steeped in Iran intel, agreed the DIA swallowed “Iranians repeating propaganda to each other, as they have done throughout the war and preceding preparations.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told reporters the DIA’s report was “preliminary” and riddled with “numerous intelligence gaps,” fresh off a Thursday briefing with Trump admin brass.

Michael Rubin, ex-Pentagon adviser, slammed DIA’s habit of drinking their targets’ Kool-Aid [aka piss water]. 

“There’s a long pattern within the DIA in which analysts listen so much to their targets that they actually start to rationalize, if not believe them,” said Rubin, now at the American Enterprise Institute. “This is why so many DIA Middle East analysts become outspoken conspiracy theorists or advocates for normalizing ties with groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Too much Iran leads to becoming analytically, if not morally, unhinged.”

Rubin figures the leak came from a DIA analyst itching to “write the first draft of history” before the report’s flaws were exposed.

Simone Ledeen, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, didn’t hold back. “At a fundamental level, a lot of our analytic corps needs to be completely destroyed and rebuilt,” she told the outlet. “A lot of these people are coming from you know which schools, so they’re totally indoctrinated and they don’t know what they’re talking about because they’re not properly educated anyway.”

A senior DIA official, caught flat-footed, insisted the report wasn’t meant for public eyes and promised to hunt down the leaker. “This is a preliminary, low-confidence assessment, not a final conclusion, and will continue to be refined as additional intelligence becomes available,” the official said. “We have still not been able to review the physical sites themselves, which will give us the best indication. We are working with the FBI and other authorities to investigate the unauthorized disclosure of classified information.”

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BREAKING:Trump Drops the Hammer on Iran’s Nuke Dreams, and the World’s Better for It

President Donald Trump didn’t just talk the talk, he walked the walk, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions are now a smoldering pile of rubble. His 2-week time out with Iran was apparently a bluff. The only '2' Iran saw, was the B-2 bombers that dropped a loud on top of their heads.

After days of Israeli air raids softening up the target, Trump green-lit U.S. airstrikes to obliterate Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, and let’s just say the mission was a masterclass in American firepower.

“We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Trump announced on Truth Social Saturday night, probably while sipping a Diet Coke and grinning ear to ear.

The big target was Fordow, Iran’s fortress-like nuclear facility tucked deep in a mountain south of Tehran. Good luck rebuilding that one, mullahs. “We're the only ones that have the capability to do it,” Trump bragged on Tuesday, hours before the bombs started falling. And he’s not wrong: nobody else could’ve pulled this off with such precision.

Trump just announced that "Fordow is gone."

Leading up to the fireworks, Iran’s regime played hardball, refusing to negotiate or ditch their nuke program, even after Trump gave them extra time to wise up. The man’s patience isn’t infinite, and he made that crystal clear. “We're not looking for a ceasefire. We're looking for a total and complete victory. Again, you know what the victory is: no nuclear weapon,” Trump said at the White House. “I don't want to get involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years — maybe longer — that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”

He wasn’t subtle about the stakes, either. “They'd [Iranian regime] use it. I believe they'd use it,” he warned. “They should've made that deal. I had a great deal for them. They should've made that deal. In the end, they decided not to do it — and now they wish they did it.” Ouch. That’s gotta sting worse than a sandstorm in Tehran.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei kept poking the bear, threatening Trump and the U.S. right up until the strikes began. Their Foreign Minister Araqchi huffed, “Americans want to negotiate and have sent messages several times, but we clearly said that as long as this aggression doesn’t stop, there’s no place for talk of dialogue.” Aggression? Buddy, you’ve been at war with the U.S. since ’79. Maybe check your own backyard before whining.

Polls showed Americans were all-in on this one, with huge majorities cheering the decision to take out Iran’s nuke program. And let’s not forget the assist from Israel—their Air Force and sneaky Mossad ops dismantled Iran’s missile defenses, comms, and banking systems, setting the stage for the U.S. to deliver the knockout punch.

Trump’s message? Don’t mess with the best. Iran’s nuclear dreams are done, and the world’s a safer place because of it. Now, as the man said, it’s time for peace—on our terms.

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Kerry Hopes Iran Wants a Nuke-Free World: needs to remove head from nether regions

Secretary of State John "Swiftboat" Kerry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a "one on one" and talked about nuclear negotiations with Iran prior to the November 24th deadline of this deal.

"Kumbayah mah Lord . . . "

Kerry spoke to reporters in Amman, Jordon: "And he expressed his concerns, of course, and I made it clear to him that the standard that we have applied throughout this negotiation still applies, and that is that there are four pathways to a nuclear weapon and we need to make certain that each pathway--the Fordow facility, the Arak nuclear--the Arak heavy water plutonium reactor facility, the Natanz enrichment facility, and covert capacities--are all closed off so that not--not as a matter of bias or prejudice, but because that's the only way the world can know for certain that a program is indeed a peaceful program. And our responsibility is to make certain that there is a sufficient breakout time in the event that there was some change in policy or something happened."

Kerry added: "So those guarantees are in place and we will keep our friends and allies informed of what we are doing in the days ahead. Our hopes remain still to try to achieve an agreement because it's better for the world."

Kerry, always the naive Communist gigolo, said that he hopes Iran cooperates in negotiations, "not as a matter of coercion but out of mutual respect and out of the interests that we all have for living in a world that is free of nuclear weapons."

Seriously, Kerry actually said that claptrap. 

The only one in the room during that meeting was a nice Jewish guy called "Bibi" by his friends. Netanyahu told the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly this week what he believes about Iran and their "mutual respect" and "interests that we all have," etc. He said that it should be "obvious that Iran is not prepared to dismantle its nuclear weapons program in return" for sanctions relief. And of course, he's correct--anyone who knows anything about Islam, Iran and what they hope to accomplish knows Bibi is correct.

Why don't liberals believe what our enemies tell us? There's a reason that China made fun of Obama on his trip there. There's a reason Iran will tell us anything we want to hear and then go ahead and do what they need to do to destroy "Big Satan" after they get finished with "Little Satan," the USA and Israel respectively.

It's their freaking religious duty to "kill the disbelievers wherever you find them" (Koran 47:4) This isn't a mystery. This isn't new. This is orthodox Islam taken literally from their "scriptures."

At least Netanyahu has the intelligence to see this clearly. "Unfortunately, instead of holding firm and demanding that Iran dismantle its program, the international community is reportedly, and I hope these reports do not prove to be true, but the international community is reportedly willing to leave Iran's nuclear program largely intact. They hope to rely on intelligence and inspectors to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons."

Chamberlain unt der Fuhrer

"As for inspectors, they weren't able to stop North Korea from getting the bomb. And if the ten year run-around that Iran has given the International Atomic Energy Agency is any indication, inspectors won't stop Iran from getting the bomb either," he said. 

We are being led by a pack of naive Neville Chamberlain's in this administration. When a country, in this case Iran, is willing to martyr itself for its religious beliefs, or at the very least, boast that their goal is to destroy us and Israel, why aren't we taking them seriously?




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