During the night of July 22, the president of the United States, donald trumpthreatened to bomb a facility iranian nuclear under construction, buried in the depths of the pickaxe mountainwhile both nations exchange attacks in the Strait of Hormuzone of the most important strategic maritime passages.
According to what was stated by the American television network Univisionthe facility located on Pickaxe Mountain is located south of the Iranian nuclear enrichment plant. uranium of Natanz, which was bombed by the US during Operation Midnight Hammer, in the twelve-day war between Iran and Israel 2025.
However, Pickaxe Mountain has remained intact while Iran continues to excavate the site, so it is still unclear what has been placed there, because the agency nuclear control of the United Nations Organization (UN)the largest international organization in the world, has never had access to the area.
Faced with this scenario, the Republican president Donald Trump recognized, when speaking with journalists on Wednesday, July 22 in the Oval Office of the White House, the possibility that Iran has transferred centrifuges to that place, possibly to a depth that would test even the bombs further powerful from USA
Iran denies secret underground facilities exist
“We will attack that area coming soon. And there is nothing they can do about it,” added US President Donald Trump, after Iran denied the existence of secret underground facilities, considering that the president’s statements were baseless accusations to justify military aggressions.
“The US obsession with the mountain, where no nuclear activity is carried out, is nothing more than a pretext for aggression, destruction and sabotage,” added the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baqaeiwho insisted that “all of Iran’s nuclear activities have been declared” to the UN.
This is because, in January 2025, various American media outlets, including Washington Post and The New York Timesreported that Iran had accelerated the construction of a secret underground nuclear facility on Pickaxe Mountain, to 200 kilometers from Tehran, where it remains outside the reach of the UN.
“We have it in our sights and Pickaxe Mountain is a possible target for a good shot. Tell the Iranians to be prepared“, declared Donald Trump, who believes that Iran may have moved advanced centrifuges and uranium enriched to depths that defy even the most powerful bombs in the US arsenal.
Marco Rubio affirms that Iran “begs every day” to reach an agreement
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubiostated that Iran “appeal every day” to the US to “reach an agreement” within the framework of the war. “The problem is that every time they reach an agreement, they break it or want to change it,” added the head of US diplomacy, who assured that Iran “will continue to pay the price“.
In this context, Marco Rubio insisted that Iran constantly sends the United States “messages through third countries“, without detailing which ones, and assured that the Islamic Republic “is running out” of States “by which to command” the alleged pleasbecause Iran “is a country governed by radicals” and “evil lunatics.”