{"id":218819,"date":"2026-07-22T21:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/218819\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:13:16","slug":"what-is-pickaxe-mountain-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/218819\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ‘Pickaxe Mountain’ in Iran?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump says US is targeting ‘Pickaxe Mountain’ in Iran. But what is it?<\/p>\n

President Trump says the U.S. will start targeting “Pickaxe Mountain” in continued strikes in Iran soon. We explain what that really is and why officials are concerned about it.<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/a><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will start targeting “Pickaxe Mountain” in continued strikes in Iran soon. <\/p>\n

Speaking from the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump gave a dim view of possible peace talks with Iran, saying the U.S. had \u201cno interest in meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n

He signaled that U.S. forces could soon target an under-construction Iranian nuclear site<\/a> buried deep under a mountain.<\/p>\n

The site, known as Pickaxe Mountain, lies on the south side of Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear enrichment site, which was bombed by the U.S. during the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in 2025. But Pickaxe Mountain has remained untouched as Iran continues to dig at the site.<\/p>\n

Iran has always insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, while resuming the enrichment of uranium<\/a> to near weapons-grade levels since Trump scrapped a 2015 nuclear deal<\/a> during his first term. The U.S. and others believe Iran had a nuclear weapons program until 2003 and may reconstitute it in the future.<\/p>\n

Washington Correspondent Christopher Salas looks closer at what Pickaxe Mountain really is and why officials are concerned about it.<\/p>\n

Watch the video above for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump says US is targeting ‘Pickaxe Mountain’ in Iran. But what is it? President Trump says the U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[63160,34,2855,63162,2861,56566,864,722,392,683,153,1047,63161,39868],"class_list":["post-218819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-continued-strike","tag-iran","tag-mcnd","tag-more-detail","tag-official","tag-pickaxe-mountain","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-president-trump","tag-trump","tag-u-s","tag-us","tag-video","tag-washington-correspondent-christopher-salas","tag-wjcl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116965697502459736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}