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Is the US Considering Nuclear Weapons Against Iran? Ex-Congresswoman's Claim Sparks Alarm

The Pakistan Times — Islamabad, August 18, 2026

Former US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed that American officials are discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran inside strategy meetings, a statement that spread fast online but comes with zero public evidence behind it so far.

Greene posted the claim on X on Sunday, saying these discussions are real, that she isn't speculating, and calling the whole idea pure evil. She didn't name who was in these meetings or explain how she found out about them, and no transcript, memo, or any other proof has surfaced to back up what she's saying. The White House, the Pentagon, and no major news organization have confirmed her claim either.

Greene used the moment to push back hard on the administration's broader Iran policy too. She argued that US intelligence assessments never actually showed Iran was close to building a nuclear weapon in the first place, yet the US went ahead and bombed the country anyway, killing Iranian officials and, according to her, children at a school in the process. She then drew a direct line to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, pointing out that those 1945 bombings killed around 110,000 people almost instantly, with the total climbing past 214,000 by year's end once radiation sickness, burns, and related illness are counted in, plus decades of cancer and birth defects that followed.

Her message closed with a blunt warning: America is not untouchable, and the war needs to stop before anyone even considers going down this road. Greene also cautioned that any use of nuclear weapons could push the conflict into something far bigger than the region can absorb, dragging in a wider war and a serious global economic hit on top of it.

It's worth being upfront here that Greene's relationship with the Trump administration has been rocky for a while now. She was once one of Trump's closest allies in Congress before a very public falling out last year, driven partly by her pushing for the release of the Epstein files and partly by growing disagreements over Trump's foreign policy, including his handling of the Iran war specifically. That history doesn't necessarily make her claim true or false, but it's context worth having, especially since this is exactly the kind of allegation that lands harder coming from someone who was once deep inside Trump's own political circle rather than a traditional political opponent.

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Sources: Middle East  Anadolu Agency

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