Trump Says US May Target Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site

US President Donald Trump has said the United States may have to target Pickaxe Mountain, a site linked to Iran’s nuclear programme, to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, Reuters reported.

In an interview with Newsmax, Trump said Washington wanted to ensure that Iran would never obtain a nuclear weapon “because if they had it, they would use it.”

“Their nuclear is buried under millions of tons of mountain. Now we’re looking at Pickaxe Mountain. We may have to go there. We’ll take a shot at that one. We’ll knock it out fast,” Trump told the news outlet.

Pickaxe Mountain is a heavily fortified facility located deep underground near one of Tehran’s main nuclear sites.