🛰️ IRAN’S PICKAXE MOUNTAIN NUCLEAR THREAT GROWS AS U.S. AND IRAN EXCHANGE WARNINGS
🕑 Published: July 22, 2026 · 6:00 PM Israel time
🛰️ IRAN REPORTEDLY MOVES NUCLEAR ASSETS BENEATH PICKAXE MOUNTAIN: Recent intelligence reportedly indicates that Iran moved thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges into tunnels beneath Pickaxe Mountain and may have transferred highly enriched uranium there for further enrichment.
The facility is believed to extend more than 100 meters beneath solid rock, potentially placing its deepest chambers beyond the reliable reach of the U.S. GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
Repeated conventional strikes could collapse entrances, ventilation shafts, power systems and access routes, potentially disabling the facility without destroying every underground chamber.
Some analysts argue that only a nuclear earth-penetrating weapon might destroy the deepest sections. Such an attack would carry severe radiological, military and geopolitical consequences, with no guarantee of complete destruction or limited fallout.
Other reported options include repeated bunker-buster strikes, sabotage or a ground operation. Iran appears to have constructed the facility to preserve and rebuild its enrichment program under the most heavily fortified conditions possible.
President Trump said Pickaxe Mountain will be destroyed “very soon.”
🇺🇸 HEGSETH ADDRESSES U.S. CAPABILITIES AND WAR COSTS: US Senator Hyde-Smith: “Do we have the ability to destroy whatever is underneath Iran's Pickaxe Mountain?”
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: “A lot of our capabilities are classified, Senator. But if anybody in the world can reach anything on God's green Earth, it is the US military”.
Hegseth said the Iran war has cost the U.S. $37.5 billion.
“It is impossible to eliminate every Iranian fast boat, every machine gun on a fast boat, or every cruise missile”.
“Russia and China are assisting Iran in some of its activities, and at different levels”.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “China has not done anything to change the course of the war with Iran”.
⚠️ IRAN THREATENS U.S. INTERESTS AND ALLIES: Iranian General Staff Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters:
“If the US targets our nuclear facilities, then its interests and its allies will become targets for our attacks”.
⚓ PAKISTAN WARNS HOUTHIS OVER MARITIME THREATS: Pakistan condemned continued Houthi threats against Saudi Arabia and commercial shipping.
Islamabad warned that any attack on Pakistani-flagged vessels or Pakistani maritime interests would be considered a grave threat to its national security. It reserved the right to take all necessary lawful measures, including force in self-defense, while reaffirming support for Saudi Arabia’s security, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
🔸 TRUMP APPROVES SAUDI CIVILIAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT: President Trump officially approved a 30-year agreement with Saudi Arabia that will allow the Kingdom to develop a civilian nuclear program and potentially enrich uranium on its own soil, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The agreement is worth tens of billions of dollars and could also allow U.S. companies to establish a uranium-enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia.
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