USA-Trump/Pickaxe Mountain
USA-Trump/Pickaxe Mountain
Dateline : Sept 4, 2026/File
Location : United States
Duration : 1'15
FILE: Washington D.C., USA - October 2024 (CCTV Video News Agency - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of White House
2. Various of Capitol building; U.S. national flag
Location Unknown - Released on Sept 1, 2026 (Courtesy of U.S. Central Command - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
3. Various of fighter jets taking off from aircraft carrier
4. Various of warship firing cruise missiles
FILE: Tehran, Iran - June 6, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
5. Various of national flags of Iran on road lamps, traffic
FILE: Tehran, Iran - March 17, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
6 Various of buildings
FILE: Bushehr City, Bushehr Province, Iran - April 29, 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland/Israel Media/Al-Arabiya/Persian language TV Stations outside Iran. Strictly No Access BBC Persian/VOA Persian/Manoto TV/Iran International/Radio Farda)
7. Various of Bushehr nuclear power plant
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. military may soon strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified site near Iran's Natanz enrichment facility, while trying to downplay the conflict with Iran as "small potatoes".
"We may hit Pickaxe very soon," Trump told reporters at the White House, referring to the underground facility where Washington says Iran has moved some of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
Meanwhile, Trump tried to downplay the conflict with Iran, arguing that it was not a war. "It's a military conflict, but it's very intermittent," Trump said, though he has repeatedly described the conflict as a "war" while avoiding the term at times.
"I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing," Trump claimed.
"I would say that it's intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes," Trump said. "There's a lot of truth that we're not fighting right now. There's no fighting."
On Tuesday night, a U.S. strike hit a wedding party in Sirik County in Hormozgan Province, killing at least five people and injuring over 60 others, Iranian state media reported.
Trump on Wednesday threatened to launch more strikes on Iran "anytime we want".
The mountain, located near the Natanz nuclear facility in central Iran's Isfahan Province, is widely regarded as one of Iran's most heavily fortified underground installations. Analysts have long speculated that Tehran could be using the site to shield sensitive centrifuge operations from aerial bombardment.
Trump has previously suggested that Iran may have already relocated centrifuges to the mountain complex, and he has repeatedly threatened military actions against the site in recent weeks. The president's latest remarks showed his most direct warning to date of imminent U.S. military intervention.
However, Iranian officials have dismissed the American threats, insisting that the Pickaxe Mountain facility is "completely empty" and that any U.S. attack would be doomed to fail.
ID : 8497691
Published : 2026-09-05 08:52
Last Modified : 2026-09-05 16:53:48
Source : CCTV Video News Agency,China Central Television (CCTV),Other
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