Trump Claims Iranian Nuclear Sites Were Also Used as Drug Factories
Trump said the 2025 strikes also hit alleged drug factories, claiming Iran was doing drugs and that the bombing wiped out its nuclear threat.
- Speaking at campaign rallies in Durant, Oklahoma, and Texas, President Donald Trump introduced a new rationale for past and ongoing U.S. military strikes against Iran, claiming that fortified Iranian nuclear sites were simultaneously operated as "drug factories".
- Referencing the 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer strikes on underground nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, Trump asserted that American stealth bombers dropped munitions "right down the air chutes into these drug factories," adding: "They were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs, but they were doing the nuclear".
- Neither the White House nor the Department of Defense provided evidence, intelligence assessments, or specific operational details to substantiate claims of illicit narcotics production inside IAEA-monitored nuclear facilities.
- The novel narrative expands the official framing of the U.S.–Iran conflict as diplomatic talks remain stalled and American forces maintain a naval blockade in the Persian Gulf.
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President Donald Trump utterly confused himself during a campaign-style speech in ruby red Oklahoma, mixing up key details of his war on Iran. But it […] ‘They Were Doing Drugs’: Trump Tries to Explain His Iran War Operation, Gets Lost in His Own Story — Then Doubles Down, Digging the Hole Even Deeper
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