Tucker Carlson: Trump may approve nuclear strike on Iran by November 7

American journalist Tucker Carlson said the Trump administration, under pressure from Netanyahu, may launch a nuclear strike on Pickaxe Mountain in central Iran in the coming days. He said a decision could be made by November 7.

American conservative journalist Tucker Carlson claims that Donald Trump's administration, under pressure from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, may launch a nuclear strike on Iran in the coming days. The target, he said, would be Pickaxe Mountain in the central part of the country.

Carlson wrote that Israeli intelligence suspects Iran of resuming uranium enrichment in tunnels beneath the mountain. U.S. conventional weapons, he said, cannot penetrate around 90 meters of granite, leaving a nuclear strike as the only military option. Citing an unnamed informed source, the journalist claimed that Netanyahu “calls Trump about this every day.”

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According to Carlson, Trump must decide by November 7, but is currently wavering and listening to Vice President J.D. Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff, who believe a deal with Iran is possible. The journalist classified Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM Commander Brad Cooper as supporters of resuming large-scale hostilities.

Carlson linked Netanyahu's pressure to Israel's domestic politics, saying that following last week's elections, the prime minister cannot form a coalition of 61 Knesset lawmakers without Trump's help. The journalist also claimed that 11 supertankers were seriously damaged in the Strait of Hormuz in October and that the global economy is on the brink of depression.

Carlson provided no documentary evidence. Trump himself said at a campaign rally in Iowa on Sunday that “at some point we will have to hit them with a hammer.” The U.S. midterm elections will take place on November 3.