President Trump told reporters on Tuesday that the US will attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, where Israeli intelligence claims that Iran has been rebuilding their nuclear program since last fall.
“We’ll be hitting that area very, probably pretty soon. And there’s not a thing they can do about it, and there’s not a thing they can do about it,” Trump said, noting that “normally I wouldn’t say that.”
“If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that. But we’ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily,” he added.
Trump previously threatened, “We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready,” during an appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.
Trump doubled down on Tuesday, though he noted that Iran’s moving of nuclear centrifuges to the location underground “doesn’t mean anything unless they have the material.”
“We follow the material. That’s where the action is,” he said before confirming that the area will be hit “very heavily.”
WATCH:
Reporter: Do you believe that Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain? And when you say we’re not done yet, what is left to finish?
Trump: Well, I think that they, they may have— We don’t have it on record. All we do is read the fake news. You know… So, you know, maybe this one they have right. But it’s okay. It doesn’t mean anything unless they have the material. You’re talking about the centrifuges. Yeah, it doesn’t mean anything unless they have the material. They don’t have.
We follow the material. That’s where the action is, and we’ll be hitting that area very, probably pretty soon, and there’s not a thing they can do about it. You know, normally I wouldn’t say that. If I thought they could do something about it, I would never say that. But we’ll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily.
Per the Times of Israel:
Israeli intelligence has reportedly assessed that Iran has moved thousands of nuclear centrifuges into a site in the Natanz area known as Pickaxe Mountain, burying them deep underground and making them harder to target in aerial strikes.
The Wall Street Journal, citing US and Israeli officials, reported Monday that Israel has told the US that its intelligence shows Tehran made the move last fall, following the 12-day war in June 2025, during which the US and Israel bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, including some buried underground.
The Pickaxe site was not targeted at the time, nor has it been hit since the start of a more intensive US-Israeli air campaign against Iran on February 28, which was launched in a bid to destabilize the regime and destroy its nuclear and ballistic missile capacities. There has been activity at the site, including movement of trucks and construction, for some 15 months.
It is not clear where the centrifuges that Israel warned about had come from, the report said, noting they may have been brought from other Iranian nuclear sites.
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