Is the US going to drop a big one on Iran?

thebesig | March 6, 2026 | 17 Comments

The kind of American bombers that were sent to the UK and to Diego Garcia is causing people to speculate as to what comes next for Iran. The Trump administration has hinted that the “big one” was coming, and that things were going to ramp up. The British Prime Minister had initially refused to allow US assets to use UK military installations but then he later adjusted his position.

From Daily Mail:

The US Air Force’s heaviest bombers are expected to arrive at British bases within hours, suggesting that Donald Trump’s mega-attack on Iran that he dubbed the ‘big one’ is imminent.

America’s stealth air fleet including its B-1s, B-2s and B-52s are said to be on their way to Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands and RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

The strategic bombers, costing up to $2billion each, can carry out long-range missions without detection while carrying the world’s most devastating missiles.

Sources have suggested that Saturday could be D-day for a new gigantic bombardment – exactly a week after America and Israel first attacked Iran as part of ‘Operation Epic Fury’.

The US President warned Iran this week that the ‘big one’ was coming, adding: ‘We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave has not even happened’.

And US defence secretary Pete Hegseth said overnight that America will now use British RAF bases to ‘dramatically’ up its strikes on Iran after the Prime Minister allowed the Americans to launch defensive strikes from UK-US bases.

‘When we say more to come, it’s more fighter squadrons, it’s more capabilities, it’s more defensive capabilities, and it’s more bomber pulses more frequently’, Mr Hegseth said.

After a delay that saw Trump claim that Sir Keir Starmer was ‘unhelpful’ and is ‘no Winston Churchill’, the UK is now letting the US use British bases for ‘defensive’ strikes against missile facilities in Iran.

Experts believe some American bombers could drop the ‘Mother of All Bombs’, a 10-tonne explosive that creates 1,000ft holes in the ground, taking out tunnels and bunkers while simultaneously pulling infrastructures such as bridges down into the giant crater.

Last night he warned the Iranian soldiers to ‘surrender or die’ after US raids took out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and much of his military leadership.

And today central Tehran was hit with one of the biggest explosions of the war so far on Friday.

There were deafening bangs and multiple plumes of smoke and fireballs as a huge payload hit the Moqaddad base of the Revolutionary Guards. Tehran’s famous Azadi Tower can be seen in the centre of a video as the bombs rained down on the Iranian capital.

Debris was thrown across the city centre and some witnesses even claimed have seen bodies thrown up more than 100ft in the air.

Additional Reading:

Robinson, M. (2026, March 6). US stealth bombers land at UK bases for ‘the big one’: Hegseth warns of ‘dramatic surge’ in attacks on Iran after Trump hints they could drop the ‘mother of all bombs’. Daily Mail. Link.