U.S. Special Forces Iran Deployment Debate Intensifies

President Donald Trump publicly directed his supporters to tune into conservative commentator Mark Levin’s radio and television program, endorsing Levin’s analysis of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran.

In a post on Truth Social (which he also shared on X), Trump wrote that Levin was “spot on” about the Iran situation and told his audience they “need to listen to Mark Levin right now.”

On his show Friday, Levin laid out a detailed military argument for why the United States may ultimately need to deploy specialized ground troops, specifically special operations forces, inside Iran.

Levin explained that while B-2 stealth bombers and heavy bunker-buster munitions have successfully damaged entrances, outer tunnels, and support infrastructure at Iran’s deepest underground “missile cities,” the most critical sections remain beyond the reach of air power alone.

These facilities, built inside solid granite mountains and often compared to America’s NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, include rail-linked storage halls and highly enriched uranium stockpiles buried hundreds of meters underground. Levin stated that without boots-on-the-ground special forces to locate, secure, or render these deepest chambers unusable, Iran could still salvage enough material and equipment to reconstitute its nuclear and missile programs after the current bombing campaign ends.

Levin stressed the mission would be limited and targeted, not a full-scale invasion or long-term occupation, but necessary to prevent a nuclear breakout.

The comments come as the U.S. and Israel continue an intense air campaign that has already destroyed large portions of Iran’s above-ground and shallow underground military infrastructure, but has not fully neutralized the regime’s most hardened mountain complexes.

No decision on ground operations has been announced by the current administration.