Deal with Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain by making it a prison

Published July 23, 2026 12:54pm ET | Updated July 23, 2026 12:54pm ET



Tension is building over the purported relocation of nuclear centrifuges to Iran’s deep bunker complex inside Pickaxe Mountain. Located deep within the Zagros Mountain range, the complex is nearly 300 miles from the northern Persian Gulf. President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the United States would be bombing the complex “pretty soon, very heavily, and there is nothing [Iran] can do about it.”

The question is, how? How to destroy a facility located hundreds of feet underground?

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