by Paul Dragu, The New American:
The United States won’t hesitate to bomb Iran again. President Donald Trump made this crystal clear on Monday during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his side. Trump’s comments were related to rumors that Iran has been secretly reviving its nuclear enrichment program.
“Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again. And if they are, we’re going to have to knock them down,” Trump told reporters. “We’ll knock the hell out of them, but hopefully that’s not happening.”
Trump said Iran may be thinking about, or is already, enriching uranium at sites the U.S. military didn’t bomb in June. If that’s happening, “we’re going to have no choice but very quickly eradicate that buildup,” he reiterated.
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Trump said he would unleash a similar destructive response if he believed Iran was developing advanced long-range missiles.
Iran Ready
Ali Shamkhani, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a proud and defiant response to the American president’s threat. He said Iran’s missile capability and defense “are not containable or permission-based.”
And the previous day, before Trump met with Netanyahu, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his nation was already in a “full scale war” with the United States, Europe, and Israel. Newsweek reported that Pezeshkian also said, “Tehran’s military forces are now ‘far stronger’ than during the brief, deadly war Iran fought with Israel earlier this year.”
Pezeshkian’s comments were followed by a statement from Iran’s military, which pledged to “deliver a ‘far harsher, more crushing and more damaging’ response to any hostile action,” according to reports.
Iranian officials have maintained that they are no longer enriching uranium at any site in the country. Obviously, the United States and Israel are not taking them at their word. When a reporter asked why he suspected Iran was reviving its nuclear enrichment program, Trump didn’t provide any details. He said he hasn’t confirmed the developments yet.
Nuclear Warnings
It’s highly likely that Netanyahu had something to do with Trump’s recent threats. Remember, the bombing in June was the result, at least in large part, of Israeli persuasion overriding that of U.S. intelligence. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard acknowledged that Iran was enriching uranium, but said there was no evidence that the Iranians were pursuing nuclear weapons. When reporters pointed this out back in June, Trump said she was wrong.
Netanyahu is on record repeatedly warning of Iran’s nuclear ambitions going back all the way to the 1990s. But even after the United States bombed Iranian nuclear sites in June, the Israelis continued to see their regional rival as a threat. Just two days after the American strikes, The Times of Israel published an article with the headline “Tehran will restore its nuclear program, Iranian atomic chief vows.” The report cited Iranian nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami, who said his government had anticipated America’s attack and planned “to prevent interruptions in the process” of nuclear enrichment.
Iran Rebuilding
On October 23, The Jerusalem Post published an analysis with the headline “How Iran is rebuilding its nuclear program, learning from past Israeli strikes.” The article featured a report from the Institute for Science and International Security, a U.S.-based nonprofit funded, in part, by Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundation money. The report, which largely relied on satellite imagery, claimed that the Iranians were rebuilding the Taleghan 2 site, a former nuclear weapons site the Israeli Air Force bombed in October 2024.
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