El reconocido periodista y comentarista político estadounidense, Tucker Carlson, ha generado gran revuelo al declarar en redes sociales que el expresidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, estaría evaluando lanzar un ataque nuclear contra Irán. Esta medida, según Carlson, se daría bajo la intensa presión del primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu.
El blanco de este supuesto ataque sería la Montaña Pica, en el centro de Irán, un sitio donde la inteligencia israelí asegura que el gobierno iraní ha reactivado su programa de enriquecimiento nuclear. Carlson argumenta que, debido a la profundidad de estas instalaciones, ninguna arma convencional del arsenal estadounidense sería capaz de penetrar los más de 90 metros de granito sólido para destruirlas.
La necesidad de un ataque nuclear se presenta, según Carlson, como la única opción viable ante esta situación, siempre impulsada por la insistencia de Netanyahu. El primer ministro israelí se encontraría en una situación política “acorralada y desesperada” tras las recientes elecciones, incapaz de formar gobierno sin la intervención directa de Trump en la política interna de Israel.
Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.
Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.
To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.
The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.
And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.
We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.
Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.
They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.
One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 2, 2026
Netanyahu, enfrentado a la posibilidad de perder su cargo, deshonra pública e investigaciones judiciales, buscaría mantener una estrecha relación con Trump, considerando la continuidad del conflicto como clave para sus intereses políticos. Carlson acusa a Netanyahu de presionar a figuras clave de la administración estadounidense, incluyendo al secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, y al comandante del CENTCOM, Brad Cooper, quienes supuestamente rechazan un acuerdo negociado y promueven operaciones militares a gran escala.
Además, el periodista señala que el secretario de Estado, Marco Rubio, y el director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, apoyarían la postura de Netanyahu, así como líderes del Partido Demócrata, incluido el expresidente Barack Obama, quien presuntamente manifestó su rechazo a un acuerdo de paz con Irán durante una reciente reunión.
Sin embargo, no todos los aliados de Estados Unidos en Oriente Medio comparten esta visión. Carlson reveló que un intento secreto de Netanyahu de sumar a Emiratos Árabes Unidos a su iniciativa de ataque contra Irán fue rechazado por el gobierno emiratí, que prefiere la estabilidad en la región ante los ocho meses de conflicto que ya han afectado las economías del Golfo y los mercados internacionales.
Finalmente, Carlson alertó sobre las graves consecuencias de un ataque nuclear. Una explosión en la Montaña Pica podría provocar lluvia radiactiva que contaminaría el Golfo Pérsico, poniendo en riesgo el suministro de agua para aproximadamente 100 millones de personas y empujando al mundo hacia una recesión aún más profunda.
