Is Trump about to drop ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Tehran & nuclear sites to finish the war faster?
He’s moving bombers and another aircraft carrier strike group to Mideast – and left G-7 summit early
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — Speculation is running high in Israel and throughout the region that President Donald J. Trump is preparing to use massive American military force against Iran to bring the war to a faster end.
"If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. armed forces will come down on you at levels never seen before," Trump wrote in his social media account on Saturday.
Since then, Trump has become deeply angered that Iranian missiles are continuing to rain down on Israel, America’s most important and faithful ally in the Epicenter, killing 24 Israeli civilians and wounding nearly 600 more so far.
It has certainly been a brutal and exhausting night of emergency sirens all across the country, millions of Israelis running to bomb shelters, and multiple salvos of Iranian ballistic missiles hurtling towards the Jewish state, some of them doing terrible damage.
Trump is also angered that an Iranian missile damaged the U.S. Consulate in Tel Aviv.
What’s more, Trump seems increasingly determined to keep his promise that Iran will never be allowed to build nuclear bombs overheads.
COULD TRUMP ACTUALLY END THE WAR FASTER BY ENTERING THE WAR NOW?
That said, is Trump really considering the prospect of dropping 30,000 pound “bunker buster” bombs on the Iranian command and control centers in Tehran and on key Iranian nuclear sites such as Natanz, Fordow, and others that are buried deep underneath mountains and difficult for smaller Israeli missiles to completely destroy?
Israeli attacks have done serious damage to these sites so far.
But some military analysts say Trump could completely destroy each site in just a few hours, thus ending the need for repeated waves of Israeli attacks and accelerating an end to the war.
After the bombings end, Trump might then persuade Iranian leaders to come to the table and negotiate a deal allowing crippling U.S. economic sanctions to be removed but also preventing Tehran from ever rebuilding its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile factories.
HERE IS WHAT TRUMP IS DOING
Consider the Commander in Chief’s actions over the last 12 hours or so.
Trump has:
Sent additional squadrons of bombers and fighter jets to the region to bolster the presence of six B-2 stealth bombers that were sent to the joint U.S.-British base on Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, on or around April 1. “The B-2 is equipped to carry America's most potent bomb -- the 30,000-pound GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator,” according to Reuters.
Sent a second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier strike group – the USS Nimitz – to the Mideast, joining the USS Carl Vinson, giving CENTCOM commanders tremendously enhanced air power and range.
Sent three Navy destroyers to the Mideast, the USS Thomas Hudner, the USS Arleigh Burke, and USS The Sullivans.
Sent 28 refueling tanker planes to the Mideast.
Trump left the G-7 summit in Canada early and ordered his staff to organize an emergency meeting in the White House Situation Room.
HERE IS WHAT TRUMP IS SAYING
Consider, too, President Trump’s statements over the last 12 hours.
“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” he wrote on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again!”
“Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”
“As soon as we leave this place, we’re going to do something,” Trump said as he left the G-7 summit. “I believe a deal will be made – or something will happen – but a deal will be signed. I think Iran would be foolish not to sign it.”
On Day 5 since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a massive preemptive attack on Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missile launchers and stockpiles, and Iran’s top military leaders, officials in Tehran are begging for a ceasefire.
Yet it’s noteworthy that Trump posted on Truth Social overnight that French President Emmanuel Macron had no idea what he was talking about when he said Trump was returning to Washington to negotiate a cease fire.
Trump’s stated that his objectives were “much bigger” than a mere cessation of hostilities.
Macron “mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to DC to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran,” Trump wrote.
“Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that.”
As ALL ISRAEL NEWS reported a few hours ago, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed last night that the United States is sending additional military forces to the Middle East, stating that he had ordered a reinforcement of the region’s “defensive capabilities.”
While he did not specify what assets were involved, reports indicated that the U.S. had deployed dozens of military refueling aircraft to Europe and redirected the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier to the Middle East.
The move is reportedly intended to provide President Donald Trump with “options” amid potential developments in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
Joel C. Rosenberg is the editor-in-chief of ALL ISRAEL NEWS and ALL ARAB NEWS and the President and CEO of Near East Media. A New York Times best-selling author, Middle East analyst, and Evangelical leader, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and sons.
