U.S. Journalist Claims Nuclear Strike on Iran’s Mount Pixas May Come in Days, Unconfirmed

Thacker Carlson, an American journalist and television broadcaster, wrote on X that the Trump administration may carry out a nuclear strike on Iran within days, and he named the possible target as Mount Pixas. The source reports that no official confirmation of this claim exists and that Carlson’s account rests on his own sources. He said the final decision could be approved by November 7.

In his post, Carlson said the target lies in central Iran and that, according to claims from Israeli intelligence, which he cited, uranium enrichment had been restored there. He argued that no available weapon could break through 300 feet of granite and destroy the tunnels, and he concluded that a nuclear strike was the only military option. He also quoted an informed observer, whom he did not name, as saying that Benjamin Netanyahu “calls Trump every day.”

Carlson wrote that Netanyahu, after the election, cannot form a government without direct intervention from Trump, or he would lose his position and face an investigation. According to Carlson, Netanyahu has placed allies in the administration, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper, whom Carlson said were trying to restart major combat. He also said that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were acting in the same direction. These are Carlson’s claims, and the source does not independently verify them.

Carlson said a ground explosion on Mount Pixas would pollute the Persian Gulf and poison water sources for a hundred million people. He noted that no country other than the United States has ever used nuclear weapons in war. He further claimed that Russia had told at least two governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would give it cover to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and that India, Pakistan and North Korea would face the same temptation, which he said could make a world war inevitable. He also claimed that since February the administration had secretly copied American nuclear doctrine to ease the use of nuclear tactics.

Carlson said the president is hesitant and is now listening to Vice President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff, who he said believe an agreement with Iran is possible. Carlson said he thinks they are right, while acknowledging the difficulties of negotiation, especially the radicalization of parts of Iran’s leadership after the killing of Ali Khamenei in February. The White House, the Pentagon, the Israeli government and the other authorities mentioned in the source have not confirmed any of these claims.

The source gives this background. The open confrontation between the United States, Israel and Iran began on February 28, 2026, when Washington and Tel Aviv launched a joint military operation against the Iranian regime, which the source says was preceded by an escalation including U.S. strikes in June 2025. On June 22, 2025, the U.S. Air Force and Navy struck Iran’s key nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan. The source says that on February 28, 2026, a large U.S. and Israeli air campaign hit command centers, infrastructure, rockets and drones, and that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in the first strikes. In June, a temporary memorandum to halt fire in the Strait of Hormuz was signed, but negotiations soon reached a dead end, and in late October proposals to end the war, passed through Qatar, were officially rejected.

Analysts cited by the source believe the Trump administration is considering new major military operations that could target energy infrastructure and power plants. The source says Iran’s new leadership has ordered that “maximum measures” be applied to any new aggression by the United States. It also reports that Washington and Tel Aviv had developed a plan for major strikes that could begin around the U.S. congressional elections, while regional intermediaries are trying to prevent a new escalation.

Source: Read the original report (translated from Ukrainian)