Trump says U.S. forces will likely strike Iran’s underground nuclear site
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iranian bridges and power plants in response to Iranian attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, writing Wednesday on Truth Social that the United States will “bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT” — including infrastructure in or near Tehran — for every ship Iran strikes.
The warning comes days after Iranian missile and drone attacks killed three U.S. servicemembers in Jordan. A fourth U.S. servicemember was killed last week in Iraq during a controlled detonation of unexploded ordnance from a downed Iranian drone, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Trump also said Tuesday that U.S. military forces would likely attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, an underground site where Israeli intelligence believes Iran has buried advanced nuclear-enrichment centrifuges, “pretty soon.”
Following the deaths, the U.S. military launched multiple rounds of strikes that officials said were intended to degrade Iran’s ability to attack commercial shipping in the strait.
“Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over! This directive has been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military,” Trump wrote on social media.