What Is Pickaxe Mountain, Iran’s Underground Nuclear Site That Trump Is Threatening?

As the resumption of the Iran war escalates, with Washington and Tehran trading a deluge of strikes, President Donald Trump has again threatened to attack sites linked to Iran’s nuclear programme.In the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump was asked if he believes Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain, an underground facility near one of the country's primary enrichment facilities.“They may have, we don’t have it on record,” Trump said. “It doesn’t mean anything unless they have the material [uranium]. We follow the material, that’s where the action is.”“We’ll be hitting that area, probably pretty soon, and there’s not a thing they can do about it,” he added, having earlier vowed that “any site where they’re even thinking about nuclear, we’ll be hitting it very powerfully."This is far from the first time Trump has threatened to strike Pickaxe Mountain, known in Iran as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La.But the other long-standing prevalent issue surrounds Iran’s nuclear capabilities, as Trump has repeatedly stated that Tehran must never be allowed to build or procure a nuclear weapon.“We're going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready,” Trump said in a July 13 in...