Trump says the US will soon attack Pickaxe Mountain, an underground nuclear site linked to Iran near Natanz.
President Donald Trump said the US is not done with Iran and warned that the next US target could be an underground nuclear site called Pickaxe Mountain.
President Donald Trump has said the US will soon target Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site. (Bloomberg) What Trump said about Pickaxe Mountain According to Reuters, Trump said the US will be hitting the Pickaxe Mountain area, which is near Iran’s badly damaged Natanz uranium enrichment site, “pretty soon.” As per AFP, Trump said, “We’ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily,” and added that he would not usually announce targets but “there’s not a thing they can do about it.” Trump made these remarks while speaking to reporters during a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House.
Trump also said it would take Iran a very long time to rebuild if the US stopped attacks now. “If we left right now, it would take Iran 20, 25 years to rebuild. Okay, and we’re not finished at all…we’re not leaving right now,” he said.
Iran increased its attacks in the Middle East on Tuesday, two weeks after its war with the US started again, with Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain coming under attack.
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Iran moved thousands of centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain According to the Wall Street Journal, Israeli intelligence believes Iran moved thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges into tunnels deep inside a mountain last fall, Israeli and US officials say. This is a development that would heighten concerns that Tehran could reconstitute its nuclear program, the report added.
Israel passed along these intelligence findings to the US, saying the centrifuges were transferred to the Pickaxe Mountain site last fall. This happened after the 12-day war in June, when American and Israeli strikes pummeled Iran’s three main nuclear sites, according to the report.
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