Trump Warns of Strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain

President Donald Trump warned on Friday that the United States could strike Iran's heavily fortified underground nuclear facility known as Pickaxe Mountain "very soon," asserting that American intelligence is closely monitoring the site and that Tehran will not be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon. The threat marks a potential escalation in the ongoing U.S. military campaign against Iran, which has lasted approximately five months.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump described the campaign as a "military conflict" that is "small potatoes" for the United States, a characterization that followed similar remarks from Vice President JD Vance a day earlier. Trump emphasized that the primary objective of the U.S. operations is to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. "We're in five months now. And you know what we did in five months? They're not going to have a nuclear weapon, that's what we did," Trump stated.

Pickaxe Mountain, located in Iran's Isfahan province near the heavily damaged Natanz uranium enrichment facility, is a secretive underground complex believed to contain two deeply buried tunnel systems. Satellite imagery has shown extensive construction at...