{"id":64772,"date":"2026-07-23T11:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64772"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:12:28","slug":"is-pickaxe-mountain-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64772","title":{"rendered":"Is Pickaxe Mountain Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An article posted at Breitbart<\/a> on Tuesday reports that Israeli intelligence believes that Iran moved its nuclear centrifuges into the underground Pickaxe Mountain facility near Natanz last fall. President Trump is still determined to end Iran’s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that the United States is \u201cnot finished at all\u201d with Iran, warning U.S. forces would strike the regime\u2019s heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site \u201cpretty soon\u201d while signaling his administration was prepared to expand military operations rather than return to negotiations.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump made the remarks while meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House after being asked about a Wall Street Journal<\/em> report<\/a> that Israeli intelligence believes Iran moved thousands of advanced centrifuges into the underground Pickaxe Mountain facility near Natanz last fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that they may have,\u201d Trump said when asked about the reported transfer, while stressing that the centrifuges alone would not allow Iran to revive its nuclear program.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean anything unless they have the material. They don\u2019t have it. We follow the material. That\u2019s where the action is.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll be hitting that area probably pretty soon. There\u2019s not a thing they can do about it,\u201d he said. \u201cNormally, I wouldn\u2019t say that. If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that. But we\u2019ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is quite possible that what is left of the rulers of Iran believe that the existence of nuclear capabilities (or at least the illusion of that existence) may be the only thing keeping them in power and keeping their country from being destroyed.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s remarks came as U.S. forces continued striking Iranian military infrastructure, with U.S. Central Command announcing additional operations targeting missile and drone capabilities, military command centers, maritime assets, air defense systems, and other facilities tied to Tehran\u2019s efforts to disrupt commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Trump has repeatedly argued the campaign is intended to prevent Iran from rebuilding its nuclear program while maintaining military pressure on the regime.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asked about Iran\u2019s remaining capabilities, Trump maintained the administration would continue applying military pressure while monitoring Tehran\u2019s nuclear assets.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re degrading them at levels that nobody thought was possible,\u201d he said, adding that U.S. officials continue to track Iran\u2019s nuclear material rather than focusing solely on centrifuges or infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We need to end this quickly, and the current regime of Iran needs to leave the country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article posted at Breitbart on Tuesday reports that Israeli intelligence believes that Iran moved its nuclear centrifuges into the underground Pickaxe Mountain facility near Natanz last fall. President Trump is still determined to end Iran’s nuclear program. The article … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10348,246,966,19838,10589],"class_list":["post-64772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-breitbart","tag-iran","tag-irans-nuclear-program","tag-pickaxe-mountain","tag-president-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64773,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64772\/revisions\/64773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}