Trump isn't targeting an area larger than Texas.
Inside ‘Pickaxe Mountain,’ Iran’s secret underground fortress
Posted on 07/13/2026 6:38:41 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said that the U.S. would take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, as he warned that Washington would continue to hit the country hard.
"We're going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready," Trump said in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
"We're watching (Pickaxe Mountain) closely. We see no activity there. They're not doing well with their nuclear situation. Every time we hear about it, we blow it up. So they don't like talking about it. But we'll probably give Pickaxe a shot relatively soon," Trump said.
Pickaxe Mountain, located near Iran's heavily damaged Natanz uranium enrichment facility, is a heavily fortified site that hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes that experts assess as beyond the reach of the most powerful bunker buster bombs in the U.S. arsenal.
Trump earlier on Monday said the United States was reinstating its blockade of Iranian shipping in the Gulf and would ensure the Strait of Hormuz stays open — for a fee — after the two sides exchanged more missile and drone attacks.
"We're going to hit them very hard tonight and we're going to hit them hard tomorrow. And there's not a damn thing they can do about it," he said on the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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Shoot, don’t talk!
Oh, we’ve got bombs that would reach them, but they’re not the kind we are going to use.
There are only 350,000 square miles of mountains in Iran.
Just 1.2 times the size of the state of Texas.
Piece of cake.
,,, cost recovery! What a business model.
>> a heavily fortified site that hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes that experts assess as beyond the reach of the most powerful bunker buster bombs in the U.S. arsenal.
So nuke it,
Then nuke it again.
Nuking Iran adds insult to injury! 😌
All you are saying
is give peace a chance?
Well Kum Bah Yah!
In North Dakota Pickaxe mountain is known as کوه کلنگ.
Unless it’s Tomahawks, no way is Trump hitting Pickaxe Mtn tonight. If he were to fly bombers over Pickaxe and they were to get a lucky shot off, that would end the whole thing right there. So, no way it’s Pickaxe, Trump isn’t dumb.
Nothing is getting nuked.
Trump also said this:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181905659568283648
“The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....”
You need boots on the ground to take out mountain fortified facilities... Bombs won’t do it.
So how many nuclear bombs would satisfy you, war groupie?
,,, cost recovery! What a business model.
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And quite illegal.
Challenge...accepted.
A little irascible today, n’est pas?
That is the “lets use nukes on them because they are nuts and if they get a nuke, they will use nukes for sure crowd”.
They just can’t see the problem.
He worships Alex Jones.
So you take thast out. 99.9% of the enemy is still there in the hundreds of subterranean bases scattered througoug the country.
It’s an asymmetrical war. All they have to do is lob a missile or drone at a ship every other week or so and 20% of the world economy is shut down.
Time is on their side. Not ours.
But you go ahead and beat your chest and put out your Tarzan yell.
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