02 July 2025

What's Driving Trump's Anger on Iran

There is a very powerful factor beneath the near-rabid assertions by President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu that Iran's three nuclear enrichment facilities were completely obliterated by American bunker buster bombs.

By all signs, this is not true. But it is the very foundation of the cover story for Israel's absolute defeat in its recent 12-Day War of Aggression that it inflicted on Iran. If the nuclear sites were not destroyed, then the U.S. and Israel would be bound to resume the war because of that supposedly horrifying danger of Iran creating and weaponizing a nuclear bomb, its prevention being the ostensible purpose of the sneak U.S. attack while Iran was still negotiating a resolution with the U.S.