U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a tactical nuclear strike on Iran against an underground Iranian nuclear facility at Pickaxe Mountain, it has claimed.
John Kiriakou, who worked at the Central Intelligence Agency from 1990 to 2004, warned the US President was seeking to ‘break’ the ‘final taboo’ around dropping nuclear bombs.
The former spy claimed Mr Trump wanted to ensure future presidents ‘feel empowered’ to use America’s arsenal of ultimate weapons more liberally.
His comments come after Tucker Carlson, a former Fox News presenter and Maga whisperer, claimed Trump ‘may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran’.
‘I’ve heard the same thing from my own contacts at the White House, that the President is considering the use of a tactical nuclear weapon against Pickaxe Mountain so it will penetrate to the point that it will destroy everything that’s underground,’ Mr Kiriakou told Piers Morgan Uncensored.
‘But more than that, he wants to break that final taboo – and I’m told that’s the word he is using: “the final taboo” – so that future presidents would feel empowered to use a nuclear weapon. I think it’s crazy.’
The deployment of nuclear weapons would be a major escalation in the war. Such weapons have not been used in anger since the end of the Second World War, when America used nuclear bombs to level the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
In the past, Iran has openly discussed plans to build centrifuges to support its nuclear enrichment efforts at Pickaxe Mountain.
The complex is also estimated to be large enough to house an enrichment plant. Although its true purpose remains shrouded in mystery.
