Trump Warns of Strikes on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site

Speaking from the Oval Office, United States President Donald Trump defended the months-long US military campaign against Iran, stating that its primary objective is to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. According to reports from news.abplive.com, Trump warned that American forces could soon strike Iran’s heavily fortified underground nuclear facility at Pickaxe Mountain if suspicious activity is detected at the site.

Trump told reporters on Friday that Washington is closely monitoring activity at the underground complex near the Natanz uranium-enrichment facility. American intelligence is tracking movements across Iran, and the administration is prepared to act if conditions warrant an attack.

Pickaxe Mountain Facility and Intelligence Tracking

Pickaxe Mountain is a heavily fortified underground complex featuring two deeply buried tunnel systems situated near the Natanz enrichment plant. Earlier reports from The Wall Street Journal indicated that Israeli intelligence believes Iran has relocated thousands of centrifuges to the facility.

Because of its deep underground construction, the site is believed to be highly resistant to conventional aerial strikes. According to news.abplive.com, a direct US attack on Pickaxe Mountain would represent a significant escalation in Washington’s ongoing efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.

“We may hit Pickaxe very soon because if there was anything going on with Pickaxe,” Trump said, as reported by news.abplive.com. “We know everybody that’s moving at Pickaxe; we know everybody that’s moving everywhere all over Iran. And if anything goes bad, we hit them; we hit them hard.”

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CENTCOM Operations and Regional Security

The renewed threats follow recent operations by the US Central Command, which announced that American forces completed another wave of strikes against Iranian military targets. According to CENTCOM, these missions targeted assets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including air-defence installations, radar systems, maritime assets, mine-laying capabilities, and communications sites.

CENTCOM stated that the strikes were executed in response to attempted IRGC attacks targeting commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and deployed US service members. Trump asserted that the American intervention successfully averted a much wider regional conflict.

“If we didn’t go in there, you wouldn’t have Israel right now, you wouldn’t have the Middle East, and they probably would go at European cities and our cities next,” Trump said, according to news.abplive.com. “But we stopped them from having a nuclear weapon in five months.”

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Iranian Radar Destruction and Official Reactions

Trump also highlighted the destruction of advanced Iranian radar installations, claiming American forces wiped out sophisticated systems on two separate occasions after Tehran attempted to replace previously destroyed equipment.

“There had been no shooting for days before the hit that we gave them the other night to wipe out the radar they had,” Trump said, as cited by news.abplive.com. “They had very sophisticated radar – they brought in radar because we knocked it out once, and now we knocked it out twice. Now we don’t notice any activity.”

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In response to the military campaign, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the latest US strikes, accusing Washington of violating national sovereignty and targeting non-military infrastructure and civilian sites across multiple provinces. Tehran reported that its armed forces answered the action with “crushing defensive strikes” against US military bases in the region.