Friday, 6 November 2026

Could Trump really be plotting to hit Iran's Pickaxe Mountain bunker?

The mood sare wings in Washington are going wild. One moment, there's talk of a negotiated settlement to end the war against Iran The next, officials hinting that Donald Trump is intent on striking the nuclear bunker buried deep under the granite Pickaxe Mountain. This has been on the cards ever since the war began. But for some reason, never explained, American bombers never targeted it in Operation Midnight Hammer in June last year but concentrated on the other nuclear sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz. However, one of the reasons is that the bunker under Pickaxe Mountain is buried far more deeply. Even the 30,000lb Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) which was used against the three other sites in June last year couldn't destroy Pickaxe. So how is Trump contemplating attacking Pickaxe? Perhaps it's all threatening bluster to scare Tehran into agreeing a deal. But then if they know the US has no weapon, bar a tactical nuke, capable of destroying Pickaxe, why would they suddenly seek peace if they think they, and Pickaxe, can survive another round of strikes? Trump wants to make sure that before he leaves office in just over two years' time, Iran will have been stopped/blocked from developing a nuclear weapon. One way or another, Pickaxe cannot be allowed to remain unscathed because if Tehran wants to accelerate plans to build a bomb, they will do it in relative safety at the Pickaxe site.

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