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Trump is urged to act on Iranian site feared impervious to airstrikes
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Little is known about Pickaxe Mountain but in 2025, satellite images revealed that Iran had advanced construction at the site soon after US forces disabled the country’s three main nuclear facilities in June.
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Michael Crowley
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WASHINGTON – Over the past year, US airstrikes have crippled Iran’s nuclear program. Several Iranian nuclear facilities lie in ruins. And Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium – “nuclear dust”, as President Donald Trump calls it – is thought to be deeply buried under rubble.
