Author: Nils Adler
Published on: 05/09/2026 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Donald Trump says Washington may strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”. Just hours after he made that threat, an Iranian oil tanker off Kharg Island was struck by four US missiles. The US knows “everybody that’s moving at Pickaxe” and across Iran. The latest threat comes more than six months into the war that the US and Israel launched on Iran on February 28. On Friday, Trump sought to downplay the war in Iran, calling it “small potatoes”, while a day earlier, Vance appeared to suggest the conflict had cooled and to shrug off an alleged US strike on a wedding in southern Iran with “sometimes things happen” The US and Iran have exchanged attacks this week, including a US hit close to Iran’s oil infrastructure on Kharg Island. IAEA confirmed further damage to the entrance buildings of Natanz’s underground enrichment plant in March 2026. The Institute for Science and International Security reported in June that tunnel entrances at all three main sites remain sealed. After the June 2025 attacks, Trump said the three sites had been “completely and totally obliterated” Iran suspended cooperation with the agency after the strikes. IAEA now says it has no way to report on the size, location or composition of the stockpile. Tehran insists the programme is peaceful, and has dismissed Washington’s focus on Pickaxe Mountain as a manufactured pretext for attacking it.
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MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
He forgot he already did.