What is Pickaxe Mountain?

President Trump’s threats to bomb an underground Iranian nuclear facility called Pickaxe Mountain have brought renewed attention to the heavily fortified nuclear site, as the administration says it’s weighing further military action against the country.

“We’ll be hitting that area very probably pretty soon. And there’s not a thing they can do about it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.

“You know, normally I wouldn’t say that. If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that. But we’ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily,” he continued.

Pickaxe Mountain, known in Iran as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, is an underground facility located south of Iran’s nuclear enrichment site in Natanz.

According to the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), the underground complex is buried roughly 328 feet beneath the mountain, which rises more than 5,000 feet above sea level.

Iran began excavating the site in 2020 after an........

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