{"id":890,"date":"2026-07-13T23:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:44:15","slug":"trump-the-us-will-take-out-pickaxe-mountain-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"Trump: The US will take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/egyptian-gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_8575.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Trump: The US will take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran\" title=\"Trump: The US will take out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran\" \/><\/div><p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2013 US President Donald Trump on Monday said that the US would \u200btake out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, as he \u200cwarned that Washington would continue to hit the country hard.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be \u200bready,\u201d Trump said in an interview on the Hugh \u200bHewitt Show.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re watching (Pickaxe Mountain) closely. We see no \u2060activity there. They\u2019re not doing well with their nuclear \u200bsituation. Every time we hear about it, we blow \u200bit up. So they don\u2019t like talking about it. But we\u2019ll probably give Pickaxe a shot relatively soon,\u201d Trump said.<br \/>Pickaxe Mountain, located \u200bnear Iran\u2019s heavily damaged Natanz uranium enrichment facility, is \u200ba heavily fortified site that hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes that \u200cexperts \u2060assess as beyond the reach of the most powerful bunker buster bombs in the U.S. arsenal.<br \/>Trump earlier on Monday said the United States was reinstating its blockade of \u200bIranian shipping in \u200bthe Gulf \u2060and would ensure the Strait of Hormuz stays open \u2014 for a fee \u2014 after the \u200btwo sides exchanged more missile and drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re \u200bgoing to \u2060hit them very hard tonight and we\u2019re going to hit them hard tomorrow. And there\u2019s not a damn thing \u2060they \u200bcan do about it,\u201d he said \u200bon the Hugh Hewitt Show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 US President Donald Trump on Monday said that the US would \u200btake out Pickaxe Mountain in Iran, as he \u200cwarned that Washington would continue to hit the country hard.\u201cWe\u2019re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be \u200bready,\u201d Trump said in an interview on the Hugh \u200bHewitt Show.\u201cWe\u2019re watching (Pickaxe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/egyptian-gazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_8575.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[126,1846,1845,289],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-iran","tag-mountain","tag-pickaxe","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}