Should The U.S. Bomb Iran?

I’ve been asked many times in recent days how I would counsel President Trump when it comes to Iran. Should the United States join the Israeli bombing campaign, or just let events play out on their own?

I understand there are many who claim to be in the President’s camp who have viciously attacked anyone suggesting the U.S. should join Israel’s campaign to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons program. For such a serious topic, I believe a more rational discussion is in order.

First, what we know. The Iranians have been pursuing a clandestine nuclear weapons capability for the past thirty-five years.

How do we know that? Because they have spent billions of dollars, and foregone hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenues cut off by sanctions, just to preserve their nuclear options.

As I relate in my new book, The Iran House, that’s what one regime official told me at a seminar in Italy some thirty years ago. Iran was “keeping its nuclear options open,” he said, building the infrastructure and capabilities in the event, one day, a political decision was made to actually build nuclear weapons.

So how do we know they aren’t enriching uranium for civilian purposes? Because they cannot even produce low enriched fuel rods for their one nuclear power plant, and instead import them from Russia.

And by the way, you don’t need uranium enriched to 60% – which is what the Iranians have been doing – to make nuclear fuel rods.

Second, we know that the Iranians have consistently lied, cheated, and obfuscated. They allow nuclear inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) into the country, but when they find something inconvenient – like particles of weapons grade uranium – they toss them out and stop answering any more questions on the subject.

This behavior has infuriated the current IAEA chief, Raphael Grossi, who has issued scathing condemnations of Iran’s behavior in recent months.

In a report issued in February, Grossi warned that Iran currently possessed enough 60% enriched uranium to make 17 bombs in just five months. That is a nuclear weapons arsenal, not a bomb in the basement.

President Trump tried the negotiation path, and the Iranians – as I predicted – just lied and played for time. They apparently thought they could snooker Trump’s ill-prepared envoy, Steve Witkoff, into making concessions that would allow them to maintain their nuclear enrichment — and thus, nuclear weapons — capabilities.

What the Iranians didn’t count on, however, was that Trump meant business. He gave them a 60-day window to come up with a deal, and they failed. On Day 61, Israel took matters into their own hands.

The United States and Israel face a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Together, without putting American boots on the ground, we can destroy the regime’s nuclear weapons capabilities, setting back their nuclear ambitions by years, if not decades.

B2 bombers equipped with the massive GBU-57 deep penetration bombs are the only weapon short of a tactical nuke capable of destroying the deeply-buried Fordo enrichment plant, where the IAEA says Iran has been producing its highly-enriched uranium.

There remains the issue of Iran’s stockpile of highly-enriched uranium. If it’s still in Fordo when the attack occurs, it will be buried under a mountain of rubble, dramatically reducing the chances of nuclear leakage.

But if the Iranians have moved it – say, to the new buried enrichment facility they have announced they intend to build – it must be found, seized, and removed from the country. I trust Israeli intelligence, who have thoroughly penetrated the Iranian security establishment, to find it.

The operation being contemplated here is not Iraq or Afghanistan.

Yes, the Iranians could respond to a limited US airstrike by attacking the some 50,000 US troops scattered in bases across the region. But should they do so, they will have Hell to pay.

Finally, there’s the moral issue.

Some have argued that Israel doesn’t really need the United States to take out Fordo, that they could launch a commando raid and do the job on the ground.

But this is the not Iranian nuclear archive, which the Israelis stole from unsuspecting Iranian guardians in the dead of night. Fordo is the highest value target in the Iranian nuclear archipelago yet to be attacked. It will be heavily guarded and Israeli forces, should they attack, will take losses.

Iran’s nuclear program is not just a threat to Israel, it is a threat to the entire world. If the United States had real allies, they would all be stepping up to the plate right now, begging to have a hand in a joint operation.

I believe the risks of inaction far outweigh the risks of acting.

I discuss this in more detail in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday in the Jacksonville, Florida, area on 104.9 FM or 550 AM, or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app. If you miss it, you can listen to the podcast here.

Yours in freedom.

©2025 Kenneth R. Timmerman. All rights reserved.

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Ken Timmerman’s 14th book of non-fiction, THE IRAN HOUSE: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here. 

Raising Olives in Provence, can be ordered by clicking here.

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